It is always good to be asked an open question of SPoR and these are always welcomed. The key to learning in risk and safety is reading and conversing outside the mono-disciplinary genre of risk and safety and by asking open questions.

SPoR has no interest in closed questions of non-inquiry or approaches that wish to tell SPoR all that you don’t know. You can’t bring the paradigm of safety to SPoR and wish to use that filter for understanding.

The question has been asked for evidence for One Brain Three Minds.

One of the foundational methodologies of SPoR is the nature/ethic of personhood having One Brain Three Minds. Anyone who studies SPoR knows that I always give extensive evidence for this in every presentation. The evidence given is founded in: science, semiotics, religion, social psychology, phenomenology, neuroscience, education and learning, ethics, philosophy and neuropsychology. Of course, this also depends on whether wants to do the work to research the evidence or indeed, recognise the nature of the evidence.

For those who really want to learn about SPoR, there is no cost impediment in the way. Most resources are free. Of course, Dr Long is always available for zoom sessions if a group or individual with to learn. All one has to do is ask.

I recently published evidence for the fact that Safety=Zero (https://safetyrisk.net/safetyzero-culture/ ) and submitted 15 pieces of evidence in that blog and received a reply that the links were not evidence. OMG! When this is the level of thinking one gets from safety, it wouldn’t matter whether one was hit on the head with a hammer, Safety would deny there was a lump!

When it comes to thinking, it is clear, Safety believes what it wants to believe. Indeed, it would rather believe the impossible and speak nonsense to people (https://safetyrisk.net/believe-the-impossible-and-speak-nonsense-to-people/ ) than research looking for substance and evidence for belief (https://safetyrisk.net/update-on-zero-survey-just-believe/ ).

From a Transdisciplinary approach, the evidence for human phenomenology as One Brain Three Minds is overwhelming. What is also important is why this matters. This would require another blog. The way we view the human is critical to how we tackle risk.

For the moment one can a pick what source to read from the following, as examples of supporting evidence for the critical fact that humans in being have One Brain and Three Minds:

Further Research:

• Claxton, G., (2009) The Wayward Mind, An Intimate History of The Unconscious. London.
• Claxton, G., (2015) Intelligence in the Flesh. Yale University Press. New York.
• Colombetti, G., The Feeling Body, Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind. MIT Press, London.
• Damasio, A., (1994) Descartes’ Error, Emotion, Reason, and The Human Brian. Penguin, New York.
• Damasio, A., (1999) The Feeling of What happens, Body and Emotions in the Making of Consciousness. Harvest Books, New York.
• Damasio, A., (2003) Looking for Spinoza, Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain. Harvest Books. New York.
• Damasio, A., (2010) Self Comes to Mind, Constructing the Conscious Brain. Pantheon Books. New York.
• Damasio, A., (2018) The Strange Order of Things, Life, Feeling and the Making of Cultures. Pantheon Books. New York.
• Damasio, A., (2021) Feeling and Knowing, Making Minds Conscious. Pantheon Books. New York.
• Durt, C., Fuchs, T., and Tews, C., (eds.) (1997) Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture. MIT Press. London.
• Fuchs, T., (2018) Ecology of the Brain, The Phenomenology and Biology of the Embodied Mind. Oxford University Press. London.
• Fuchs, T., (2021) In Defense of the Human Being Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology. Oxford University Press. London.
• Ginot, E., (2015) The Neuropsychology of the Unconscious, Integrating Brain and Mind in Psychotherapy. New York.
• Johnson, M., (1987) The Body in Mind, The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination and Reason. University of Chicago Press.
• Johnson, M., (2007) The Meaning of the Body, Aesthetics of Human Understanding. University of Chicago Press.
• Johnson, M., (2014) Morality for Humans, Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science. University of Chicago Press.
• Johnson, M., (2017) Embodied Mind, Meaning and Reason. How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding. University of Chicago Press.
• Lakoff, G., and Johnson, M., (1980). Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press.
• Lakoff, G., and Johnson, M., (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh, The Embodied Mind and Its Challenges to Western Thought.  Basic Books, New York.
• Macknik, S., and Martinez-Conde, S., (2010) Sleights of Mind, What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions. Henry Holt Co., New York.
• Meyer, C., Streeck, J., and Jordan, J. S., (2017). Intercorporeality, Emerging Socialities in Interaction. University of Chicago Press.
• Noe, A., (2009) Out of Our Heads, Why You Are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from The Biology of Consciousness. Hill and Wang. New York.
• Norretranders, T., (1991) The User Illusion, Cutting Consciousness Down to Size. London.
• Panksepp, J., (1998) Affective Neuroscience, The Foundations of Human Animal Emotions. Oxford University Press. London.
• Raaven, H., (2013). The Self Beyond Itself, An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences and the Myth of Free Will. The New Press.  New York.
• Ramachandran, V. S., (2004) A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness. PI Books, New York
• Robinson, K., (2011). Out of Our Minds, Learning to Be Creative. London.
• Sternberg, R., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triarchic_theory_of_intelligence
• Sternberg, R. J. (1985). Beyond IQ: A Triarchic Theory of Intelligence. Cambridge University Press.
• Sternberg, R. J. (1997). “A Triarchic View of Giftedness: Theory and Practice”. In Coleangelo; Davis (eds.). Handbook of Gifted Education. pp. 43–53.
• Sternberg, R., The Triarchic Mind: https://archive.org/details/triarchicmindnew00ster
• Thompson, E., (2010) Mind in Life, Biology, Phenomenology, and the Science of the Mind. Belknap Press. London.
• Tversky, B., (2019) Mind in Motion, How Action Shapes Thoughts. Basic Books. New York.
• Van Der Kolk, B., (2015) The Body Keeps the Score, Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Penguin, New York.
• Varela, F., Thompson, E ., and Rosch, E., (1993) The Embodied Mind, Cognitive Science and Human Experience. MIT Press, London.