The Set Point Theory of Chronic Illness

Towards a Medical Cybernetics

Dec 16 • Max Shen

5

22:28

Howard Schubiner on Therapies for Pain

Meeting John Sarno, Mindfulness as PRT inspiration, etc

Dec 3 • Max Shen

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52:08

November 2025

What I'm reading (November 2025)

On scientific paradigms, and cognitive biology

Nov 30 • Max Shen

4

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October 2025

Avi Grinberg on Pain as a Knife You Resist

Attention as a capacity for healing

Oct 25 • Max Shen

4

1:19:37

Bottlenecks to resolving chronic pain

What if you're working on the wrong bottleneck?

Oct 14 • Max Shen

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September 2025

David Chapman on Debugging Illness and Health

What does metarational medicine look like?

Sep 12 • Max Shen

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1:46:33

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 • Max Shen

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1:19:31

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 • Max Shen

2

54:11

Bren Veziroglu on Teaching Tasks, Not Techniques

🎥 Bren’s Documentary Is Out!

Jul 3 • Tanner Holman

1:14:31

June 2025

A Coming Paradigm Change in Biology

A manifesto on the future of pain science

Jun 22 • Max Shen

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A Paradigm Change in Biology

essays.debugyourpain.com

Jun 21 • Tanner Holman

38:18

Health is agency

[Updated] How healthy you are depends on how well your selves pursue goals

Jun 20 • Max Shen

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