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"Herbart’s vision of psychology as a formal science, grounded in mathematical relations, anticipated later developments in psychophysics, cognitive modeling, and computational approaches to the mind."

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This is why I share the draft not as a finished argument but as an open invitation for critique, dialogue, and correction, especially from colleagues working in psychotherapy and psychiatry. 8/8

This is still a work in progress. As I note at the beginning of the text, I am a cognitive scientist and a philosopher of science, not a psychotherapist or psychiatrist. I probably missed many aspects of clinical practice. 7/n

The result is a text that rethinks “therapy” from the ground up conceptually, epistemologically, and ethically. Whether it is “right” is dubitable. What I am certain of is that it is radically questioning and, I hope, intellectually provocative. 6/n

The paper also tries to address two guiding questions: 1) What would a form of therapy look like if it were grounded in radically embodied cognition? 2)What can the framework of radically externalist cognition, developed in my master’s thesis tell us about the nature and possibility of therapy? 5/n

RET rejects the idea of a separate “psyche,” grounding human issues and healing in developmental, physiological, and socio-environmental processes. It also seeks to integrate medical and psychotherapeutic reasoning within a unified, embodied logic. 4/n

From this paradox, I develop a proposal called Radically Embodied Therapy (RET), an attempt to reconstruct (psycho)therapy as a transparent, procedural, and embodied clinical science. 3/n

The paper begins with the Nonchalant Therapist Thought Experiment, which shows that therapy can vanish in meaning while remaining identical in form. 2/n

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...but as semiotic systems grounded in interpretation and meaning-making. In his lecture, Kull will show how biosemiotics redefines key biological notions, speciation, arbitrariness, freedom, umwelt, and the aesthetic dimension.

Biosemiotics studies communication, meaning, and interpretation in living systems, viewing life itself as a network of sign processes. It examines biological regularities such as information, coding, and signaling not as mere mechanical or computational phenomena...

However, where these people see anticipation, I see only tendency or (pre)disposition. I also cannot see a compelling argument for why we should take those systems as anticipatory.

Sadly Herbart is barely known at all. I remember that when I first encountered him in around 2019, I couldn’t find so much as a single decent English book about him. Though some publications have come out in the meantime.