He was not imitating me; he had become me, in a sense; it was like suddenly acquiring a younger twin.
For here is a man who, in some sense, is desperate, in a frenzy. The world keeps disappearing, losing meaning, vanishing - and he must seek meaning, make meaning, in a desperate way, continually inven...
Dr. P. may therefore serve as a warning and parable -- of what happens to a science which eschews the judgmental, the particular, the personal, and becomes entirely abstract and computational.
Darwin himself was evidently puzzled, as he wrote in The Descent of Man: As neither the enjoyment nor the capacity of producing musical notes are faculties of the least use to man…they must be ranked...
Culture is as crucial as Nature.
Color is not a trivial subject but one that has compelled, for hundreds of years, a passionate curiosity in the greatest artists, philosophers, and natural scientists. The young Spinoza wrote his firs...
By asking why, by seeking meaning (not in any final sense, but in the immediate sense of use or purpose), Darwin found in his botanical work the strongest evidence for evolution and natural selection....
All of us, at first, had high hopes of helping Jammie - he was so personable, so likable, so quick and intelligent, it was difficult to believe that he might be beyond help. But none of us had ever en...
ونهاية كل استكشافنا ستكون الوصول إلى حيث بدأنا ومعرفة المكان للمرة الأولى. (إليوت)
عيادة الطبيب أو جناح المستشفى ليس دائماً المكان الأفضل لملاحظة المرض - أو على الأقل ليس المكان الأفضل لملاحظة اضطراب يظهر ، إذا كان منشأه عضوياً ، بصورة اندفاع ، و تقليد ، و تشخيص ، و ردّ فعل ، و تفاع...
إن العيادة و المختبر و جناح المستشفى مصمّمة جميعاً لكبح و تركيز السلوك ، إن لم يكن لإقصائه كلياً ..
أنت الموسيقى طالما تستمر الموسيقى (إليوت)
Оказавшись на месте, я обнаружил пациента рядом с кроватью. Он лежал на полу, пристально разглядывая свою ногу. В выражении его лица смешивались гнев, тревога, недоумение и веселое изумление – главным...
There is a world of difference between complexity and anarchy. The weather is complex, it is not anarchic.
The personal, and becomes entirely abstract and computational.
The complex integration of the three secret senses: the labyrinthine, the proprioceptive, and the visual. It is this synthesis that is impaired in Parkinsonism. The
My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an in...
It is not (usually) the ideas of philosophers that change reality; nor, conversely, is it the practice of ordinary people. What changes history, what kindles revolutions, is the meeting of the two. A
In these few minutes one gets an overwhelming impression of the absolute identity of Body and Mind, and the fact that our highest functions—consciousness and self—are not entities, self-sufficient, ab...
Cognitive