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INTRO: Brain researchers are overturning decades of dogma. Forget simple causal chains from genes to brain to behavior. Instead, argues award-winning neuroscientist Nicole Rust, the brain is a dynamic complex system—like the weather or a megacity—whose parts interact via feedback loops that are impossible to study in isolation from each other. And the revolution isn’t just theoretical: a bold cohort of experimentalists is uncovering mental health treatments that go beyond traditional drugs like SSRIs—such as psychedelic therapy, which may be able to rewire brains trapped in destructive loops... (MORE - details)

Quote: Brain researchers are overturning decades of dogma. Forget simple causal chains from genes to brain to behavior. Instead, argues award-winning neuroscientist Nicole Rust, the brain is a dynamic complex system—like the weather or a megacity—whose parts interact via feedback loops that are impossible to study in isolation from each other.

The mind as a strange loop or tangled hierarchy where the bottom level constituents are coupled back with the top level whole resulting in autopoiesis.

"Autopoiesis was first introduced and elaborated by Chilean evolutionary and systems biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela in Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (Maturana and Varela, 1972/1980). The term designated for them a new knowledge of “the organization of living systems” that is premised on the idea that all living entities are unities organized around specific dynamic relations and not any essence or set of component parts. Generally speaking, an autopoietic system is one that generates and reproduces itself through itself. In contrast to an allopoietic system that generates a product other than itself (a mechanical assembly line, for example), an autopoietic system’s sole “product” is the continuation of its own relational unity."