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Paris, saturday November 14th, 2009, on a beautiful fall day;

Dear specialists

There might be another way of understanding so-called “alternative practices”.

If we consider the working of living entities, not only from the point of view of their anatomy and physiology but as an information system, then some practices apparently absurd could make sense.

If our body, our “me” is comparable to an information system, or uses and information system to regulate itself, then it does not matter much how the information is acquired.

It would also help in understanding why some classical medical procedure that should not have failed have failed.

The understanding of the working of the NET does help us in understanding the working of the information system of our body.

If tickling the sole of the feet does provide the system with an information for which it has a response program, then possibly we could use it? I am not sure why I chose that example, possibly because the tickling of the sole of the feet is so essential to us to stabilize our position and inform us about our “position”.

The one fallacy that my students make is to assume that the information is analysed at the level of the brain, as they tend to make an analogy between a computer and a human being. Of course this is not the case, we do not have a chip ( a brain) that does all the intelligent work and electric cables that bring the information to the chip.

Most of us remember that very old impressive experiment when a volunteer under slight hypnosis was informed that he had been burned on the arm and consequently developed scar tissues at that place.

Please log of as from here, as I am going to be rather crude.

Let a man (not capital M) alone on a bed and he will fantasize about the nearest non-available woman, and his body will take that fantasy for a reality and react accordingly, preparing itself for the mating process.

Our Information Processing System does not have any firm boundary between reality and fantasy. Information if information, and treated at the same level.

For those of you old enough to have read books in the fifties, a forgotten French writer named Veraldi, wrote a book about a scientist penetrating his own information system to try and cure a cancer inside his body. In those days it was great fun, but there might be something that could be used in that approach.

Sorry for the length of the comment, put the blame on my old information system which does not tell me when the wine poured into the glass has gone over the rim of the glass.