Mental attitude has about 1/3 of the total outcome of effect in a body's ability to heal itself. It is a factor in the feedback loop of our body working in harmony with it's cells and parts.
So yes, a negative attitude about an outcome can give a disadvantage to "success"... If you don't believe the penicillin will fight the abcess, then it will suffer an amount instead of gain. If you "believe" you are allergic to penicillin, then an even worse feedback loop of the entire system will be gained. It is possible to "believe" oneself into an overdose without actually having taken the drug/poison, and the placebo effect can produce a real heart attack. There are good numbers showing this on NIH, and it should be taken into account for Bayesian reason/logic of this subject.
brianfedirko t1_iseiis1 wrote
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Mental attitude has about 1/3 of the total outcome of effect in a body's ability to heal itself. It is a factor in the feedback loop of our body working in harmony with it's cells and parts.
So yes, a negative attitude about an outcome can give a disadvantage to "success"... If you don't believe the penicillin will fight the abcess, then it will suffer an amount instead of gain. If you "believe" you are allergic to penicillin, then an even worse feedback loop of the entire system will be gained. It is possible to "believe" oneself into an overdose without actually having taken the drug/poison, and the placebo effect can produce a real heart attack. There are good numbers showing this on NIH, and it should be taken into account for Bayesian reason/logic of this subject.