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12Allostasis / allostatic load (Sterling & Eyer 1988; McEwen 1998; Koob & Le Moal, Neuropsychopharmacology 2001): the body anticipates and adapts to repeated challenge by resetting setpoints; chronic adaptation depletes regulatory reserve and reverses into pathology.Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"5 Tetrad analogues in neuroscienceMcLuhan & media theoryThe paper has already established (per its premise 1) that allostasis is structurally equivalent to autoamputation.Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"5 Tetrad analogues in neuroscienceMcLuhan & media theoryThis is the explicit "McLuhan allostasis bridge" the paper has already identified, but Thread 3 lets you generalize it: McLuhan's tetrad is not just neurochemically equivalent to allostasis; it is computationally equivalent to addiction-as-active-inference.Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"5 Tetrad analogues in neuroscienceMcLuhan & media theory…w"); Robbins (2006, Nature Neuroscience, "A walk on the dark side: addiction as allostasis"); and Kwako & Koob (2017, Chronic Stress, "Neuroclinical Framework for the Role of Stress in Addiction").Research Pass for “The Medium Becomes the Ground”: an evidence map for seven theoretical claimsMcLuhan and Addiction Neuroscience: An Apparent Theoretical GapMcLuhan & media theoryThe claim is not merely that McLuhan's framework is useful for thinking about addiction — it is that allostasis is the McLuhanian mechanism described in neurobiological terms.Research Pass for “The Medium Becomes the Ground”: an evidence map for seven theoretical claimsMcLuhan and Addiction Neuroscience: An Apparent Theoretical GapMcLuhan & media theoryThe McLuhan–allostasis bridge (Section 2) is the single most novel theoretical move.Research Pass for “The Medium Becomes the Ground”: an evidence map for seven theoretical claimsCross-Cutting Synthesis: Where the Paper Is Most OriginalMcLuhan & media theoryThe full chain from screens to interoception to allostasis to addiction, however, holds only link by link, and its screen→interoception segment rests on thin, correlational evidence.The Medium Becomes the Ground: Foundation Research on Sense Ratios, Precision, Interoception, Allostasis and AddictionThe Medium Becomes the Ground: Foundation Research on Sense Ratios, Precision, Interoception, Allostasis and AddictionMcLuhan & media theoryNeuroscience chain: Experience-dependent sensory reweighting, precision weighting, interoceptive inference and allostasis are each established or well supported.The Medium Becomes the Ground: Foundation Research on Sense Ratios, Precision, Interoception, Allostasis and AddictionTL;DRMcLuhan & media theoryNovelty: No source found in this research joins McLuhan's sense ratios to precision weighting, interoception, allostasis or addiction.The Medium Becomes the Ground: Foundation Research on Sense Ratios, Precision, Interoception, Allostasis and AddictionTL;DRMcLuhan & media theoryIt is McLuhan's Selye-derived theory of autoamputation and counter-irritation in Understanding Media chapter 4, which shares a physiological ancestor with allostasis.The Medium Becomes the Ground: McLuhan and the Allostatic Model of Addiction (rebuilt)OpeningMcLuhan & media theory
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