You are not (just) your brain

The three brains in our body

Feb 16 • Max Shen

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Embodying the Nervous System

I’m interested in learning anatomy from the inside out.

Feb 5 • Max Shen

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January 2026

Pain Meditations

A basic algorithm for processing pain

Jan 27 • Max Shen

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Elena Lake on Learning Subtle Bodywork

Her arc from software engineer to creating 'Regenerative Touch'

Jan 23 • Max Shen

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December 2025

The Set Point Theory of Chronic Illness

Towards a Medical Cybernetics

Dec 16, 2025 • Max Shen

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Howard Schubiner on Therapies for Pain

Meeting John Sarno, Mindfulness as PRT inspiration, etc

Dec 3, 2025 • Max Shen

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November 2025

What I'm reading (November 2025)

On scientific paradigms, and cognitive biology

Nov 30, 2025 • Max Shen

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October 2025

Avi Grinberg on Pain as a Knife You Resist

Attention as a capacity for healing

Oct 25, 2025 • Max Shen

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Bottlenecks to resolving chronic pain

What if you're working on the wrong bottleneck?

Oct 14, 2025 • Max Shen

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September 2025

David Chapman on Debugging Illness and Health

What does metarational medicine look like?

Sep 12, 2025 • Max Shen

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August 2025

Jozef Frucek on Active Inference, Tai Chi, and the Future of Health

what happens if you mix embodied cognition, tai chi, athletics, and dance?

Aug 11, 2025 • Max Shen

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July 2025

Michael Levin on Pain as Agent, Healing as Alignment

Michael Levin, Adam Safron, and I riff on pain, patterns, and agency

Jul 29, 2025 • Max Shen

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