Trauma Neuroscience
Society in the continent of Europe since the rise of Romanticism and the world wars in the anglo-sphere has, in a certain sense, been dependent on a preservation of ambiguity between states of mind which can and which cannot simulate Turing machines.
The neuroscience of trauma provides a scholarly empirical and materialist epistemology for making distinctions between mental states with very different properties. We investigate mental states that can and cannot simulate Turing machines, in a computer science sense.
We study how the use of language both within institutions, and, those of individuals, changes under different cultural stress factors. Under what conditions is recovery from mental illness possible? Is use of language a leading indicator?
Experimental recovery programs are discussed, designed, and elaborated on by our affiliate member researchers. We use trauma neuroscience specifically in order to provide empirical inroads into the relationship between perceived models of threat or cooperation and its effect on the agent’s use of language. The
work offers the possibility to computationally validate neuroscience research, by gleaning empirical insights into some of the most pressing social and anthropological questions, among them: How we can make sense of our theory and practice of justice when language fails?