January 19, 2024

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"Predicting the Subconscious", by Dr Howard Rankin

Imagining an “AI Bodyguard for Stress”, by Michael Hentschel 

 "Converting Smartwatch outputs into preventive healthcare", by Grant Renier

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Predicting the Subconscious

One of the several myths: that derive from a totally rationalistic view is that the mind and body are separate entities. They are not. They are inextricably combined in complex ways. And if you had to choose one of these entities to keep you alive, it is obviously the body.

In her classic 1997 book The Molecules of Emotion: Candace Pert describes the role of neuropeptides, which are small molecules that act as messengers between the body and the brain, in the relationship between emotions and physical health. Pert argues that the body is the subconscious.

Almost thirty years later: Dr. Jon Lieff in his mind-blowing book The Secret Language of Cells described the incredible complexity of cellular structure and communication. For example, in the event of infection, T-cells actually dictate to the neurons, getting them to reduce consciousness so the immune system can use the energy and get numerous cells to help resolve the problem. The neurons can only increase their output and function when the T-cells tell them to do so. The physical body therefore is the prime engine that drives us, and viewing it as the subconscious is extremely valuable.

We put too much emphasis on the mind: It is getting communication from trillions of cells in the body. And because the mind is not perfect or even logical, it can easily misinterpret the signals it is getting.

There have been numerous studies: that show that when the nervous system is stimulated and amped up people vary in their interpretations of what is happening. Some say they feel anxious, others say they are excited, and those interpretations in part depend on environmental cues. Moreover, my Programmed Persona Theory suggests that cellular activity and mental interpretations can become conditioned leading to very habitual states of consciousness.

Your body feels tired. You are used to interpreting this as being depressed. This makes your body more tired, eliciting more negative thoughts as you head down the rabbit hole of despair. You can sit down and examine your self-limiting beliefs, or get your butt out the door and walk. The exercise will ramp up your energy, and no matter how hard you try, you won’t feel as bad as you did before walking. Your increased physical energy won’t allow you to be so “depressed” although your conditioned thinking may interpret this as a brief respite from your inevitable sadness.

If the body is the subconscious: measuring physical attributes and physiology is the way to access what is going on beneath the mental surface. Currently, we are still in the early days of measuring key metrics but one day we will be able to access the biological correlates of critical cellular activity and direct it for the benefit of overall physical and mental health. We will also be able to predict it, allowing for a massive change in preventive procedures.

For now, however, what we can measure allows us a window into the subconscious: the engine that drives us. If you had a car that was malfunctioning and took it to the auto repair shop and the mechanic spent the entire time talking to you about how the car drives, would you be frustrated? Surely, to understand what’s going on you need to look under the hood. And good auto maintenance requires constant evaluation so you can predict when one of the parts is about to fail, and prevent disaster.

We are now at a time where we can monitor our being: like modern cars can tell you about the state of the engine, oil, tire pressure and other important metrics.

Imagine being able to access, understand and predict what is going on in the most important levels of your being, anywhere, any time?

What’s in your subconscious?

by Howard Rankin PhD, Intuality Science Director, psychology and cognitive neuroscience

Imagining an “AI Bodyguard for Stress”

Managing Your Resilience to protect Physical and Emotional Health: As Dr. Rankin has described in these pages, stress represents real tangible problems for humans, though the word is generally understood as “symptoms.” Stress indicators are ultimately correlated to the real physical and mental problems we experience, both in health and in our reactions to real events. Calm reaction needs accurate perspective, and AI will be there to assist.

Personal Resilience is your human ability to handle stress: without debilitating damage. Some people have great resilience, others don’t. The difference is physical and mental health.

You, your physicians and advisors, and your behaviors can improve your resilient health.

At right is an Image of a futuristic AI Bodyguard: standing alongside a human patient, with AI diagnostics designed for assisting successful human stress management, equipped with technology to monitor biometrics for physical and emotional health indicators, to predict vulnerability and resilience to potential imminent life challenges. Not by any means always life-threatening, but risking physical or emotional balance, resulting in health degradation. Calm behavior can be learned.

Some manifestations of AI Bodyguard services: would be to predict cyclical periods of physical and emotional strength or weakness. The AI continually advises in real time with real-time analytics whether to pursue specific activities, such as sports, debates, presentations, to optimize human performance in dangerous or risky situations, and so forth. AI Advice might be an electronic alert, but also include adding another person or android assistance to engage and complete a task safely and successfully. Or involve strengthening and protecting the body via additional preparation or therapy. Essentially, advising a change in behavior. Or suggest avoiding an avoidable challenge altogether.

AI’s predictive analytics will be required: to augment current AI technologies, whether mechanical or electronic, with real-time predictions of situational challenges challenging individualized health data.

This combination can be realized in the near future with existing technology: By combining personal health metrics and patterns from sensor-equipped watches or body sensors, with predictions of various human biometric indicators such as heart rate variability, blood pressure, oxygen levels, as well as indicators of emotional health.

AI now gives us the opportunity to have a continually operating lifetime coach: a guardian monitoring all our vitals and predicting near term peaks in stress while we can still change our behavior. Like dieting, all these metrics in real time will involve disciplined changes to make a difference, but we will have our AI Bodyguard with us, like a conscience, like a friend, to suggest the right course to lessen stress.

Stress is a killer: short-term or long-term. Indications of impending damage is increasingly available in physical and mental metrics. Its consequence is increasingly understood by scientific research and evidence over the long term.

The early philosophical Greeks had a concept of constant companion: friend and assistant: Parakletos. Parakletos has meant for millennia that there was a savior of sorts available spiritually, as well as intervening subtly in life emergencies and situations. Lest this constant companion be treated or perceived as a god in charge of our probabilities, an AI Paraclete is merely a helpful companion that we humans have created and can now begin to use as an extension of ourselves. The constant companion AI is a universal gift. For the religious billions of people who believe in a God and are thus comforted in stress, an AI Paraclete will be just an extension of God-given human creative talents, offering AI Assistants to help care for our personal physical and mental needs.

For everyone, the stresses of life should be improved: dramatically by having the AI continually inform us with predictive analytics of the probabilities ahead and our need to de-stress in advance or in reaction.

by Michael Hentschel, Intuality CFO, anthropologist, economist, venture capitalist

Converting Smartwatch outputs into preventive healthcare

Smartwatches now output: a wide range of our body's status. See the list of measurements to the right. Software interfaces in our smartphones receive these data and report them to us in easily accessible charts and graphs. My colleagues and I have been wearing and testing competitive brands over the last few years and find their measurements to be relatively accurate. 

It is nice to know these measurements. But they are only reports of my body's status at the time of measurement. Wouldn't it be nice if the software could predict the probabilities of where my blood pressure and heart rate would be seconds and minutes from now? 

Preventive healthcare with all of its potential benefits depends on predicting: future conditions, not limited to just reporting current status which in many cases maybe too late. 

And we know that the physician's expertise: to make those judgments of future conditions is limited to each visit and exam. What about the in-between days and weeks when we are exposed to and stressed by all sorts of bodily and environmental conditions.

Current smartwatch technology: is monitoring  the listed vital signs 24/7 while requiring no more than two charges per week. The attending software in the smartphone must be within 30 feet to receive the collected data in real-time. However, collected data is transmitted and updated once smartphone reception is restored. 

Michael Hentschel is describing above: how 24/7 vital signs prediction can be taken to a whole new level he calls the "AI Bodyguard of Stress". He references Dr Howard Rankin's white paper about how our personal experiences of stress can be predicted by AI's processing of heart rate variability and associated data series.

We can understanding predictions of potential stress events: easier than trying to interpret predictions of heart rate variability. 

Predictive AI is now ready to revolutionize healthcare: beyond what we have previously imagined.  

by Grant Renier, Intuality Chairman, engineering, mathematics, behavioral science, economics

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