SUO: Re: Re: Life history of a rock
An observation re collapsing the common 'mind/body' :
distinction:
Those who have had surgery (particularly true if brain, brainstem, or other
"inside head" surgery) have conveyed substantial attitudinal and affect
transformations. It seems this would translate (per some scale) to
sustaining a little cut on the hand and reactions to what we ingest. It
seems to work the other way too. Rather or along with saying that how we
think and feel manifests in body state, a unified being (distinguished
social mass) present in time seems cognizable.
:) L.
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>Neither Whitehead nor Peirce distinguished "mind" as something
separate from "body". They both considered "mind" and "body" to
be descriptions (adjective-like) that could be applied to the same
phenomena when viewed from different perspectives. And they both
maintained that it was possible to find a continuity of "mind-like"
phenomena at every level from the lowest to the highest. Recent work
on the encoding of information in DNA, biosemiotics, and related
developments seems to confirm their insights.
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Dr. L. D. Misek-Falkoff, Speaker and Chronic Pain Chair
The National Disability Party http://www.disabilityparty.com
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