THE IN5 MODEL: UNING THE INBODIED VOLITIONAL PROCESSES VIA OUR SHARED, ESSENTIAL NONVOLITIONAL PROCESSES

摘要

Inbodied systems are always on, always adapting, and, in particular, nonvolitional. Tuning is framed as a way to deliberately affect the inbodied system. InS [1] (the inbodied five) is a model featuring core volitional and essential processes that directly affect the state of the inbodied. These are: move, eat, engage, cogitate, and sleep (MEECS). These five are not necessarily exclusive, but to the best of our knowledge they are each processes that 1) we all share and practice regularly to varying degrees of quality, 2) are essential to (quality of) life (their deliberate extended removal is used as torture), and 3) are processes for which we are physiologically wired. For example, in terms of engagement, we have specific hormones like oxytocin that are triggered by physical human contact and have been shown specifically to enhance trust; we are evolutionarily adapted to move in synchrony with each other; and loneliness—a lack of positive, in-person engagement with others— may be more of a killer than obesity (https://www.sciencedaily.com/ releases/2017/08/170805165319.htm], underscoring its importance for a healthy and not just long life.