Richard Taite

One of those is self-organizing, and that means it's regulating its own becoming.

And that set up a whole framework called interpersonal neurobiology.

The group went on to meet for four and a half years.

And since then, because that was over a third of a century ago, there has not been another definition of the mind offered anywhere as far as I can tell.

And that definition has predicted all sorts of future research from other people.

So it wasn't like proving its own, trying to prove its own validity.

And we would just say it's been supported by a ton of research.

And so that definition has been really powerful because what that means in terms of your question, Patricia, is that we're at a place now, if that definition is correct, and I think it might be, that's just my personality, I always doubt everything, but I think it could be.

And if it is correct, then what that means is that we've gone down a pathway of mistaken identity

that happened starting 2,500 years ago with Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, who said, our mental lives are only up in our heads.

That was wrong.

It's a much bigger story.

And indigenous cultures and contemplative teachings have been teaching there's some, it's much bigger than the individual brain.

And, you know, I've gotten a lot of pushback, but, you know, it's just more emotional than anything else because it's not academic, really.

You know,

The mind is broader than the brain and bigger than the body.

And we've been living as if it's just enclosed in the individual.

And that's, I think, why we've gotten into so much trouble.

I know.

The neighbors on that side would get very agitated, but the neighbors on those side would totally agree with me.