MT;In the final and the first analysis, the brain is a device
for controlling movement
Josh: Only half, even in a hunter/gatherer context. The other half is
participation
in the social process, which in its essence is pure communication.
The social point/dimension is true, as covered in a previous thread. But re
"pure" communication, don't you have an awareness - having written this
book, (which sorry I haven't read) - that the mind/body era inaugurated by
Descartes (& the first scientific revolution) is coming to an end right
across our culture? The illusion of pure, ethereal, rational mind, which
takes so many forms, is fast fading. And, actually, the autonomous mobile
robot will symbolize and define the new era even more powerfully than the
clock defined the first? (In fact, historically I understand, it was the
then hydraulic ROBOTS in the royal gardens that actually inspired Descartes'
mechanism just as much as the clock).
P.S. Is the term for tenure, then, rigor academici?
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