What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?

Re:What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? by cco on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @10:10AM (#18399591)

For clarity could you please briefly define "mind"?

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Re:What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? by carapace on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @11:48AM (#18400330)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind

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Re:What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? by cco on Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:47PM (#18409849)

So in this paradigm mind is to brain what movement is to body?

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Re:What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? by carapace on Monday November 12, 2018 @09:34AM (#18432791)

Hmm, the brain is an organ of the body, is it any more mysterious if "mind", whatever that is, controls the movement of the arm rather than the brain?

If you decide to think of biting a lemon and your saliva glands react, is that any weirder than throwing a ball? If you just think about throwing a ball without doing it your muscles will still contract in "micro-movements" to act out the act of throwing.

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