I'm not a medical expert. I barely qualify as a layperson. So I am going to defer to you guys.
Is it real, a load of hooey, or something in between?
Psychoneuroimmunology?
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Lago PARANOIA
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Psychoneuroimmunology?
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoneuroimmunology
If I'm reading this right it seems the field is based on the idea that your mental state affects your immune system. Why would that be a radical belief? The placebo effect has to originate somewhere.
If I'm reading this right it seems the field is based on the idea that your mental state affects your immune system. Why would that be a radical belief? The placebo effect has to originate somewhere.
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