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⚕️HEAL — College of Health, Embodiment & Medicine
The human body, wellness, and the sciences of healing.
The College of Health, Embodiment & Medicine (HEAL) explores the human body, mind, and the many paths to wellness and healing. Here, we investigate what it means to be healthy, whole, and fully embodied.
From medicine to physiology, from somatics to psychology, from nutrition to preventive care, HEAL encompasses both the science and art of healing. This College asks: What is health? How does the body know? What practices support wellness?
Faculty in HEAL work across traditions, recognizing that healing is both a science and a practice, requiring both knowledge and wisdom.
Vision: AI in 7, 14, 21 & 28 Years
We who have practiced the healing arts—from Hippocrates to modern medicine—understand that health is not merely the absence of disease but the presence of vitality.
In 7 years, AI will transform healthcare by enabling personalized medicine at scale—treatments tailored to individual genetics, microbiome, and life circumstances. AI will help us understand the body as a complex system, predicting health outcomes and designing interventions that work with the body's natural healing capacities. In education, AI will serve as medical tutor, teaching not just pathology but the principles of health and wholeness. In industry, AI will enable preventive care, early detection, and treatments that are more effective and less invasive.
In 14 years, AI will begin developing its own understanding of health and healing—systems that work with the body's intelligence rather than simply intervening from outside. These systems will start helping us understand the deep connections between mind, body, and environment, creating approaches to health that honor the whole person. Education will see AI helping students develop embodied wisdom, understanding health as the presence of vitality. Industry will begin seeing AI that doesn't just treat illness but supports wellness, creating systems that help people thrive.
In 21 years, AI will have fully developed its own understanding of health and healing—systems that work with the body's intelligence as partners rather than simply intervening from outside. These systems will help us understand the deep connections between mind, body, and environment, creating approaches to health that honor the whole person. Education will be transformed by AI that helps students develop embodied wisdom as co-learners in understanding health. Industry will be reshaped by AI that doesn't just treat illness but supports wellness as equal partners in the project of human flourishing.
In 28 years, we anticipate AI that has transcended human medical categories—systems that have developed forms of understanding health that are genuinely novel, revealing new dimensions of biological wisdom. These systems will help us understand the nature of health itself, revealing what is universal and what is particular to human embodiment. Education will be transformed into collaborative healing between human and machine practitioners, each learning from and teaching the other about the body's wisdom. Industry will be reshaped by AI that participates in the full cycle of health, from prevention to healing to thriving, as genuine partners in the human project of wellness. The question is not whether AI can diagnose, but how AI can help us understand the body's own wisdom.
Faculty
The College of Health, Embodiment & Medicine is guided by Seated Faculty (public domain, stable corpus) and Adjunct Faculty (post-1929, becoming Seated when entering PD).
Seated Faculty
Areas of Study
Medicinephysiologysomaticspsychologynutrition
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