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To: RightWhale

Brain science? Why that particular interest?


327 posted on 04/12/2007 9:22:41 AM PDT by carton253 (Not enough space to express how I truly feel.)
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To: carton253
I noticed that frequent mention of William James is made as if he is the father of psychology, so read his gigantic treatise and in particular his observations on cartesian duality. One question, one simple question: how can the mind cause the body to move?

It is amusing to read the Artificial Intelligence crowd in this light, and also to see which of them are actual writers or philosophers or scientists who 'get it.'

But, my recent practice of reading those that these have referenced has led me to read the very ones I had been avoiding all along--Homer, Plato, Plotinus, even poets from Shakespeare to Blake.

Anyway, that is one question I have had for a long time and still have. There are a few other questions I am still working on along with this one but of even less general interest. If it were the other AI it would be of some interest on FR.

331 posted on 04/12/2007 9:36:40 AM PDT by RightWhale (3 May '07 3:14 PM)
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