Balance, Simplistic Views of Human Personality, Unconscious Bias ---And REAL CONCERNS for HOMEOSTASIS

• Balance is still important --- BUT it's more complicated than we thought ---
  • Many things we EXCLUDE as IRRELEVANT -- are EXCRUCIATING RELEVANT
    

The Four Humors - United States National Library of Medicine

The four humors were blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. These were in balance in a healthy person.

Slight imbalances, favoring a specific humor, were thought to result in specific personality types.

How brain fills gaps

When in doubt about what we see, our brains fill in the gaps for us by first drawing the borders and then "coloring" in the surface area, new research has found.

The research is the first to pinpoint the areas in the brain, and the timing of their activity, that are responsible for how we see borders and surfaces.

Understanding Unconscious Bias (2020)

The human brain can process 11 million bits of information every second.

But our conscious minds can handle only 40 to 50 bits of information a second.

So our brains sometimes take cognitive shortcuts that can lead to unconscious or implicit bias, with serious consequences for how we perceive and act toward other people.

Where does unconscious bias come from? How does it work in the brain and ultimately impact society?

Human Body - OpenCurriculum

The human body is made up of trillions of cells that all work together for the maintenance of the entire organism.

While cells, tissues, and organs may perform very different functions, all the cells in the body are similar in their metabolic needs.

Maintaining a constant internal environment by providing the cells with what they need to survive (o...

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Dynamic Homeostasis

Texan John Bradshaw was an American Educator, Counselor and famously hosted PBS Specials in the 1990s on Addiction, the "Inner Child," and the "Dysfunctional Family." 

I'm wanting to take the idea of "DYNAMIC HOMEOSTASIS" and apply it on a MICRO --- cellular level and as well as apply it to a MACRO level of the "Dysfunctional Society" that can play out over the course of HISTORY.

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Big Think -- Author Johann Hari
Loneliness Kills

Pharrell Williams
Freedom

We're All Made of the Same Things

The Halluci Nation
R.E.D.

Calling Us to Recognize a Common Human Tribe

I don't think it is just choosing a perspective to understand COGNITIVE PROBLEMS --- it is understanding how these PERSPECTIVES are INTEGRATED.

Roger Martin
Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto

How To Solve Wicked Problems Using Integrative Thinking