RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 26, 2018 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2018 at 5:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's interesting that we think that..that theres some mechanical seperation between "logical thought" and "emotional thought". How we think and how we feel, in sum. We have no evidence that this is the case and no reason to assume it's true.
We sometimes refer to regions of the brain being relatively more active in some given x..but, ofc, that doesn't mean that any other region is silent, that it's not cross informing. Then the whole thing lights up and we're stroking out, lol.
Talk about designing a horse by committee. A camel doesn't have shit on us.
Similarly, we think that the "emotional bit" is the primitive part and the dry "rational bit" the more advanced part...but that can't be true, at least not in us, by reference to the simplest cnas from which our own was evolutionarily derived.
We sometimes refer to regions of the brain being relatively more active in some given x..but, ofc, that doesn't mean that any other region is silent, that it's not cross informing. Then the whole thing lights up and we're stroking out, lol.
Talk about designing a horse by committee. A camel doesn't have shit on us.
Similarly, we think that the "emotional bit" is the primitive part and the dry "rational bit" the more advanced part...but that can't be true, at least not in us, by reference to the simplest cnas from which our own was evolutionarily derived.
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