Vyv Huddy

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Check out our paper about ‘power dynamics’ in research. I recommend any researchers to reflect on they can shift from token public involvement to empowering communities to drive the questions. @dclovesgp @sapcacuk #SAPCASM @BJGPjournal bjgp.org/content/73/732…

As the mum of two of them, I do worry about our young people. On the one hand, society and the system tell them that their struggles and differences are illnesses or disorders that need expert help. On the other, right now there's precious little help available

Really great to see the BPS 2023 Landmark Special on Inequality is published. Thanks to all of those involved. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.111…

@JDaviesPhD A resilient community is one that maintains stable conditions for its inhabitants to carry out these roles. By displacing resilience to individuals this shows a misunderstanding of how people survive adversity. We do this together /end

@JDaviesPhD Not only neoliberal - Resilience is a key concept is systems thinking (eg. Donella Meadows) Human beings cannot be resilient systems because they cannot survive without other people (eg babies need vital care parents, when ill we need others to tend us etc) 1/

'Resilience' is a sneaky neoliberal trope. It frames, as a psychological virtue, painful endurance of circumstances from which others benefit at your expense.

@MarkGuyers @jones1302 Really glad be involved and great work Mark! 👏

@kaleidic An excellent documentary covering the misremembering of WW2 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Livin…

My uncle who died in combat in April, 1945 was explicit that he held no pride in what he, nor anyone, did in that war. I refuse the whitewash Bevins applies to frame the start of the Cold War.

Beginning Vincent Bevins’ book The Jakarta Method, for which I’ve heard praise and emphasis. I figured I’d experience a dance of agreements, disagreements, etc. which is fine. I prefer challenging books. Anyway …

@Kihbernetics @rmarken @warrenmansell Are there examples of empirical studies comparing them?

@rmarken @warrenmansell I have no doubt you think that's true, the same way I think the theory I'm promoting here for a while now is a better fit. The truth is that both our #descriptions are in fact #artifacts produced from our #theories upon which we lose control the moment they are shared with others

@warrenmansell @rmarken That’s a fair point. I was going to say some are directly observable eg crowd demo rings /arcs and others are not eg working memory. The latter often to defined theoretically by frameworks other than PCT? So care is needed if these frameworks conceive behaviour differently.

@NathanDowlinna @warrenmansell @rmarken I think I first heard Tim Carey first use the term - definitely a useful principle. Hope life treating you well!

@warrenmansell @VyvHuddy @rmarken Please can "pure vanilla PCT" become a standard part of PCT nomenclature? Non-emergent properties that are extensions, as @VyvHuddy was saying, could then be "mint choc chip" and so on?

@warrenmansell @rmarken I’m trying to stick to what understand of PCT basics and only that. Hopefully controlling for critical friend principle!

@warrenmansell @rmarken Some (eg intelligence) are inferred from observations of behaviour but without reference to perceptions under control, and so are incorrect inferences rather than emergent properties? Arcs and rings in the crowd demos would be emergent?

@rmarken @warrenmansell And finally stuff like prioritisation would be control of program perceptions? But awareness of these is consciousness?

@warrenmansell Sure, if you want it to. In the PCT model, consciousness can’t do all that fancy stuff. That’s what the control hierarchy is about.

@rmarken @warrenmansell I understand consciousness is defined in PCT as exactly this, 1. awareness 2. of a perception.

@rmarken @warrenmansell Would the hierarchy resolve conflicts without shifts of awareness to higher levels? My understanding is no, interaction between the hierarchy and awareness is needed for effective reorganisation.

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@verbajim @warrenmansell @_RobGriffiths @DrMaryWelford @drSarahParry Observing patterns emerge in John Conway's Game of Life seems to capture something about change is experienced - often abrupt, unexpected and not always sustained playgameoflife.com

What is the experience of transformation? I’m looking for descriptions, accounts, depictions of this; research, literature, film, or any other media. Anything that gets to the felt-sense of change. @warrenmansell @_RobGriffiths @DrMaryWelford @drSarahParry