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The “One” and the “Many” (Cont’d from previous blog)
In my last blog posting, we witnessed how it is that brain is the perceived and acknowledged product and thus the crowning glory of the life that we have come to know. We also, if only by inference yet just … Continue reading
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The Miracle of Mind (Continued from previous blog).
The miracle of mind then unerringly leads us to reject entirely a perception of it as merely a collection of brain functions as such. Nor on the other hand should it be perceived as some form of assemblage amounting to … Continue reading
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The Miracle of Mind. (Continuing on from previous blog).
Volumes have been written concerning that ancient element of social evolution, commencing around 3500 BC, with the discovery of the first idiographic writing in the Middle East, known as civilisation. Yet still the question lingers: how do we define the … Continue reading
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Brawn, Brain, Brilliance.
Now, it is important to make the point here that what has been written above must be kept the proverbial “million miles” away from the utterly mistaken and indeed, at times absurd belief that whatever the nature of disease being … Continue reading
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“Brawn, Brain, Brilliance”.
Now that (hopefully) we possess a more informed and enlightened perception of body and brain, i.e. of their capacity to contribute and combine and of their inextricable interelatedness, we can move on to one of the truly great questions to … Continue reading
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Addendum… to previous blogs.
Over the course of blogs, I have, for very good reason, rather concentrated upon – and in that way I hope, paid tribute to – the manner in which, over millions of years of our evolution as a species, man … Continue reading
The “split’ brain. (Continued from previous b log…)
Yet again we witness how after billions of years of slow evolution to the brain’s present size some 250,000 years ago, a stone age culture prevailed: that is, up to and until just a few thousand years ago, when a … Continue reading
The “split’ brain. (Continued from previous…
Given a fully functional right and left hemisphere of the brain it is – as Timothy Gallway· showed in his fascinating “Inner Game” series of volumes on tennis, golf, music etc. – possible and advantageous to develop the concept and … Continue reading
What’s more, it’s “Two for the ‘price’ of one…”(Cont’d from previous…).
I was only fifteen years of age when I first came across a natural phenomenon in the West of Scotland known as “The Electric Brae”. It lay some 40 miles or so away from our home in those days and … Continue reading
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Our on-board Pharmacy (Continued).
Historically, the placebo has often been regarded by medical researchers as something of a nuisance, which at best can be “controlled for”. Drug firms spend millions of dollars and pounds sterling annually, in an attempt to eradicate it from their … Continue reading