My goodness Brad, You are particularly transcendant today. REH
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] new book + Book that needs to be written > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I guess it always gets back to the cause of the first cause: What gets the > > mind to physically change the brain. > > I would prefer to put is this way: "Why do we > ask 'What causes the mind to physically change the brain?'", > whereas persons in some other culture might > ask 'How do we molify the spirits?'", or whatever. > > Peoply simply cannot get cancer in a society > that has not constructed a taxonomy of > illness something like ours. The people in such > a culture might find their bodies inhabited by > angry spirits, but they don't get cancer. > > Or let me try this the other way around: How do > persons who have not come up with our idea > of cancer get the cancers we think they get -- > FROM THEIR POINT OF VIEW? Even in our own society, > as recently as 100 years ago, we keep saying that > people died of breast cancer or some other > cancer but they didn't know it. Well, they did > think *something*, and *that something* > was important in their lives as they lived those > lives. > > But let's get closer to home: Persons in our > society tend to believe that managers and > employees exist. Persons tend to treat > this difference as seriously as differences > from the mathematical sciences of objective > nature. If persons didn't think this way, > people like Marx and Foucault might > have had to find different ares of research > (e.g., Freud's first love: worms). > > So what? At lesat part of teh "so what" is > for persons to appreciate that they are > shapers of their world and not just instances > in it. I admit that my childrearing makes > me especially sensitive to this, since the > reality of my parents and tor-mentors was, > for me, miasmic. I hasve previously written > how I "saw a light" when I read in Kuhn's > _The Structure of Scientific Revolutions_, that > old sscientific theories die, not because their > adherents get converted to the new theory, but > because they all DIE without being ablt to > recruit members of the next generation to carry > on their work. THe thought that the > miasmic incubus world(?) of my social > milieu of origin would eventually all be dead > and gone was indeed, as last, a breath of > fresh air -- a small opening in the > unrelieved DENSITY of that form of life. > > For persons to see themselves as transcendental > subjects of experience rather than as objects > in the object world, seems appealing to me. > I try to offer this vision to others, in the > belief they have generally not been childreared and > schooled to know about it, and that at least some > might find it an *appealing* transfiguration of their > experience of life -- sort of like giving > Ptolemy Mount Palomar.... > > "Yours in discourse [which constitutes our experienced > world, even if in the existentially > self-confuting form of constituting it > as something 'not constituted by us']...." > > \brad mccormick > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Selma Singer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 7:24 PM > > To: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Futurework] new book + Book that needs to be written > > > > > >>From what I can gather from the reviews, Schwartz and Begley make a very > > different argument; they appear to be saying that the mind is an entity of > > its own that can physically change the brain; from there, it seems they get > > to the free will issue. > > > > Selma > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Selma Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 7:11 PM > > Subject: Re: [Futurework] new book + Book that needs to be written > > > > > > > >>Selma Singer wrote: > >> > >>>I have just ordered the book *The Mind and The Brain* by Jeffrey > >>>Schwartz and Sharon Begley. > >>> > >>>Has anyone read this? I found the reviews particularly interesting in > >>>that he argues that we can use our minds to change the wiring of our > >>>brains. Apparently he has considerable evidence from his work with > >>>Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. > >>> > >>>Apparently he brings in all kinds of interesting stuff about free will > >>>in regard to this newly discovered information from his studies. > >> > >>I'm waiting for a book titled: > >> > >> _The brain in the mind_ > >> > >>which would detail how contemporary schooled Western persons > >>constitute the notion of *brain*, and also manage to > >>*believe* that the mind is in the brain (like Medieval > >>persons used to believe in God, etc.). > >> > >>\brad mccormick > >> > >>-- > >> Let your light so shine before men, > >> that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > >> > >> Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 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