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Yeah, I'm very well aware how double blind works and my point is exactly related to your 2nd paragraph. Be it coincidence or actual real placebo caused healing (which happens) it would be a major perspective trauma and it definitely happens!
Personally I do think that mental states absolutely impact biology through many invisible forces like hormone production and behavior. So getting a placebo and believing that it works can stimulate specific hormone production or healthy behaviors like going for a jog which ends up legit healing the person. It's easy to see how this could lead someone to a more spiritual or religious point of view because in this experience something like "faith" is legitimately healing them tho not in the way they think.
Mental states are biology. That there can be broader impact on the rest of our body is hardly surprising.
Yeah, reminds me a bit of bullshit titles like these:
No shit, your brain is also you
That's kinda like saying the movie on the cinema screen is the projector at the back.
More like saying a program running on a computer is digital, like the hardware.