The philosopher René Descartes insisted that body and soul are separate things. “I think, therefore I am,” he famously said. His “am” was not flesh and bone.
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Embodied soul
Last week CBS’s 60 Minutes did a story on a 12-year-old musical prodigy named Jay Greenberg. Jay has been composing since he was two, and apparently his music is of a professional quality. He is now studying at Juilliard in New York, and his teachers compare him to Mozart.
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The chemical mind binds us together
As dumb as a goldfish.
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Our bodies are ourselves: So be it
Philosopher René Descartes insisted that body and soul are different things. “I think, therefore I am,” he famously said. His “am” was not made of flesh and bone.
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We’re studying our thinking
“It is not easy to live in that continuous awareness of things which alone is true living,” writes the naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch. And, of course, he is right. Our brains are separated from the world by a permeable membrane. Attention flows outward. Sense impressions flow inwards. Of this two-way traffic we create a soul.
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Eyeing the machinery of the spirit
More than three centuries ago, Pascal said, “Man considering himself is the great prodigy of nature. For he cannot conceive what his body is, even less what his spirit is, and least of all how body can be united with spirit.”
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Mysterious sleep
The title jumped off the new-book shelf at the college library — a volume called Why We Sleep.