The body-mind dichotomy tends to generate a false understan…
The body-mind dichotomy tends to generate a false understanding of what differentiates humans from animals.
It's not our mind that makes us human, it's our soul (the ability to evaluate our mind). Our mind, if unchecked, keeps us in the animalistic state more than it makes us human.
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Apparently from the 30s till like the 70s one way the medical profession used to treat epilepsy was to surgically cut the center of the brain in half, to in effect sever the halves in the middle.
People could still go on about their day to day lives, surprisingly, but apparently sometimes when the person reached to grab say a chocolate, their other hand would pull the other away from the chocolate.
In effect the decision making wasn’t in the mind, it at least not the full decision, as the other brain hemisphere kinda fought back for its particular interest.
Interesting. The complexity of the human experience never ceases to amaze me.
What an adventure to be thrown into!