Wednesday, January 28, 2009

looking for damasio

"The brain's body-furnished, body-minded mind is a servant of the whole body" (Looking for Spinoza, p. 206).

If mind is a servant of the body, then "mind" may only serve as the time-delay that the body and brain need to process complex decisions. The brain occupies the brain until the brain can process a complex decision. Or is this processing experienced as thinking? Passive/active: the brain processes decisions while giving another part of the brain the illusion that it is thinking things over. Two sides of one coin?

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