{"id":9955,"date":"2018-02-12T09:09:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=9955"},"modified":"2018-02-12T09:09:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:09:30","slug":"colloquia-wed-feb-14-cultural-neurophenomenology-experience-framing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2018\/colloquia-wed-feb-14-cultural-neurophenomenology-experience-framing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquia Wed. Feb. 14: Cultural Neurophenomenology of Experience Framing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date<\/span><\/strong>: February 14, 2018 3pm-4:30pm<\/span><\/p>\n

Location: <\/span><\/strong>Dunton Tower: Room 2203<\/span><\/p>\n

Title: <\/span><\/strong>Cultural Neurophenomenology of Experience Framing<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaker: <\/span><\/strong>Samuel Veissi\u00e8re – Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry<\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract: <\/span><\/strong>Cultural neurophenomenology is an ambitious project.\u00a0 It has been defined (why not?) as \u2018a theory of the experiential and neurobiological aspects of cultural activity\u2019 to create a \u2018neural theory of culture and a cultural theory of the brain\u2019 (Dominguez, 2012).<\/span><\/p>\n

Placebo Sociality properly understood is a pleonasm: culture by definition produces placebo effects. What we believe and expect, as the well-known story goes, affects how we feel, and can produce all kinds of improbable \u2013 at times near-miraculous \u2013 physiological effects.<\/span><\/p>\n

When members of the same species develop group-specific ways of feeling and doing things, we can speak of culture. Sociality, in turn, refers to our species-specific ability to form joint goals and engage in large-scale, coordinated, meaningful action. This is an old puzzle: How and why do people who mostly don\u2019t interact with one another in the flesh develop standardized, scripted ways of being that feel so real and personal to them? How and why do cultural differences take hold with such strange phenomenal (\u201cwhat it feels like\u201d) stability? Why is this process largely unconscious for humans? What are the limits and extent to the species-general, group-specific experiences that human sociality afford?<\/span><\/p>\n

In this talk, I present an overview of \u2018strange\u2019 ways of being and feeling that arise through the cognitive mechanisms that underpin cultural forms of life. I take the example of tulpamancy \u2013 an online subculture in which young people conjure imaginary friends that they experience as friendly auditory hallucinations that improve their quality of life \u2013 as a case in point to describe how sociality affects inner experience. After a detour through cyberchondria, recent experiments in culturally-assisted placebo treatments, and other examples in which collective beliefs produce unusual physiological responses, I turn to the general question of wellbeing and ask how the current idioms of \u2018mental health\u2019 many of us now take for granted affect human wellness.<\/span><\/p>\n

References:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kirmayer, L.J., Gomez-Carrillo, A., Veissi\u00e8re, S. (2017), \u00a0Culture and depression in global mental health: An ecosocial approach to the phenomenology of psychiatric disorders, Social Science & Medicine<\/span><\/p>\n

Ramstead M, Veissi\u00e8re S, and, Kirmayer L (2016) Cultural Affordances: Scaffolding Local Worlds Through Shared Intentionality and Regimes of Attention<\/a>. Front. Psychol. 7:1090. *<\/span><\/p>\n

Veissi\u00e8re, S. (2017). Cultural Markov Blankets? Mind the Other Minds Gap<\/a>! Physics of Life Reviews<\/span><\/p>\n

Veissi\u00e8re, S. (2016) \u2018Varieties of Tulpa Experiences: The Hypnotic Nature of Human Sociality, Personhood, and Interphenomenality\u2019. In. Amir Raz and Michael Lifshitz (eds) Hypnosis and meditation: Towards an integrative science of conscious planes. Oxford University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

Veissi\u00e8re, S. & Gibbs-Bravo, L. (2016). \u2018Juicing: Ritual, Purity and Placebo Sociality in a Community of Extreme Eaters\u2019. In. Cargill, K.. Food Cults. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dom\u00ednguez D, J. F. (2012). Neuroanthropology and the dialectical imperative. Anthropological Theory, 12(1), 5-27.<\/span><\/p>\n

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