I am operating on about 5 hours of very broken up sleep and am generally fried. But this is exactly what I want to do: Create "predictive" biological models with a real world, specific (teaching) purpose. But what I have been thinking recently is that there is a "space" between the basic physiological "rules" of the body and the world around us and that "space" is found in the mind -- that we make countless small choices based on enormous amounts of data/models/whatnot in our heads which bias us towards recreating the outcomes we expect (for example: the entire CF community is routinely told by doctors "people like you don't get well" and "it's the normal progression of CF, there is nothing you can really do about it" and the like --and then they repeat these memes to each other, further reinforcing it and further discouraging people from making any real effort to defy those expectations).
So I have been pondering how one would lay that out as a model, because it is not as simple as "my body has X nutritional deficiency so I crave foods high in X, I eat said foods and then get somewhat better". It is more like "my body has X nutritional deficiency so I crave foods high in X, I run those cravings through my mental filter and in many cases I decide there is something inherently bad about craving them and then I go to great lengths to defeat this built-in self-guiding system, thus not allowing myself to get better, which leads to more cravings and more guilt and more stringent attempts to 'exercise self control'...and round and round we go".
Anyway, it is likely of no use to the forum for me to attempt to think out loud on the topic (especially while fried). But I think it is of use to me.
So I have been pondering how one would lay that out as a model, because it is not as simple as "my body has X nutritional deficiency so I crave foods high in X, I eat said foods and then get somewhat better". It is more like "my body has X nutritional deficiency so I crave foods high in X, I run those cravings through my mental filter and in many cases I decide there is something inherently bad about craving them and then I go to great lengths to defeat this built-in self-guiding system, thus not allowing myself to get better, which leads to more cravings and more guilt and more stringent attempts to 'exercise self control'...and round and round we go".
Anyway, it is likely of no use to the forum for me to attempt to think out loud on the topic (especially while fried). But I think it is of use to me.
Peace.