tion and placebos
Does it mean that your illness was all in your mind? You weren’t sick or didn’t want to be better?
Does it mean you don’t have good taste or you are just a shallow person if you think expensive wine tastes better but you cannot tell the difference in a blind taste test?
Can luxury products, spiritual practices or changes in the weather affect our situation?
Some people find that knee surgery is effective. These people had an real injury, which was fixed by the surgery. sham (where the patient is sedated and cut, but there are no internal changes) can be just as effective for certain physical ailments as ‘actual knee surgery’. Does this mean that these ailments were not real or that the patient wasn’t trying hard enough?
We’ve convinced ourselves and others along the way that our brains aren’t as important as we thought, and the stories of our lives don’t count as much as molecules.
When we examine closely, it appears that the opposite is true.
Stories can be a comfort. Our brains are very powerful, even if they’re not always (or often) in our control.
What else could it be but in your head?
