Great article! Linking to uncertainty and disagreement in clinical settings, with a focus on pain: the possibility of disagreement or uncertainty about pain in others reflects an indeterminacy, which is fundamental of our concept of pain. That indeterminacy in turn is due to social patterns of behaviour: our concept of pain must be flexible because pain behaviour, and our complex reactions to it, is diverse and unpredictable. Caregiving in pain settings can involve a threat to the caregiver and is conditional on the authenticity of manifest pain behaviour. As observers of pain behaviour, we are sensitive to signs of exaggeration, suppression, or malingering, in behavioural displays of pain. Accordingly, our concept of pain does not always connect behaviour, situation and personal experience, in a rigid way. Thoughts?
I'm busy reading Annie Duke's 'Thinking in bets' and she also talks about uncertainty a lot, although her framing is more neutral than positive or negative. Uncertainty just is, and her point is to try and understand it better.
I'm reading it mainly for some ideas on how to use probabilities to "deal with" uncertainty.
I'm really enjoying the book but I think you could probably get 60-70% of the big ideas from this interview with Shane Parrish - Getting Better by Being Wrong with Annie Duke: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/annie-duke/
Great article! Linking to uncertainty and disagreement in clinical settings, with a focus on pain: the possibility of disagreement or uncertainty about pain in others reflects an indeterminacy, which is fundamental of our concept of pain. That indeterminacy in turn is due to social patterns of behaviour: our concept of pain must be flexible because pain behaviour, and our complex reactions to it, is diverse and unpredictable. Caregiving in pain settings can involve a threat to the caregiver and is conditional on the authenticity of manifest pain behaviour. As observers of pain behaviour, we are sensitive to signs of exaggeration, suppression, or malingering, in behavioural displays of pain. Accordingly, our concept of pain does not always connect behaviour, situation and personal experience, in a rigid way. Thoughts?
I'm busy reading Annie Duke's 'Thinking in bets' and she also talks about uncertainty a lot, although her framing is more neutral than positive or negative. Uncertainty just is, and her point is to try and understand it better.
I'm reading it mainly for some ideas on how to use probabilities to "deal with" uncertainty.
I'm really enjoying the book but I think you could probably get 60-70% of the big ideas from this interview with Shane Parrish - Getting Better by Being Wrong with Annie Duke: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/annie-duke/