Giorgio Israel, the weekly Times of September 1, 2010 has developed an interesting reflection on how all humans today is brought back, in a pseudo cause and effect, a brain function rather than the intelligence that highlights the conceptual crudity of some scientists: "What is terrified to leave the conceptual crudity with which you establish a cause-effect relationship between what happens in the brain and the feelings of the subject. It's like if I said that because the heart of a person at the sight of the beloved beats faster, the tachycardia is the cause of love.. "
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" That nature that prompts us to desire great things is the heart" is the motto of the Meeting in Rimini this year. It is curious to hear about "heart."
Not because this body has lost importance from the point of view physio-pathological. It's odd and unusual because every other point of view, the heart is out of fashion. Try to bring the dots with the phrase - "That nature that prompts us to desire great things is. .. "- And then ask them to replace the dots the right word. I would bet that the answer will be far more frequent "brain." Now when you are dealing with something that relates to the thoughts, feelings or some function that is not present in material terms, it is called "brain." Even the recall of Italian researchers who have distinguished themselves abroad is defined as "return of the brain, and not the" minds ".
brings to mind a procession of bodies immersed in bottles containing alcoholic solution.
Yet this tendency to reduce everything to the brain is not only obsessive, lacking any rational foundation, that the motto of the Meeting should welcome a healthy reference to the role that humans have the ability to
emotions and feelings that are not directly reducible to logical processes which would be played by dance of neurons and synapses. But the obsession with "brain" that comes from neuroscience, or rather the neurophilosophy that proliferate on them, is rampant.
I read recently the following announcement of the discovery a "scientific": "Courage is a matter of the brain." With the usual procedures of magnetic resonance imaging brain activity was observed in some subjects as they overcame the fear caused by the experiment consists in bringing a snake up a few inches from their head. They would have glimpsed some neurological mechanisms "related to ceraggio. Let also lose about baggie to use these "discoveries" to carry out treatments able to set aside the fear you would find reasonable to remove the fear in a car? What is left astonished the conceptual crudity with which you establish a cause-effect relationship between what happens in the brain and the feelings of the subject. It's like if I said that because a person's heart at the sight of the beloved beats faster, the tachycardia is the cause of love. What is
gives rise to the vulgar materialism of reducing everything to brain function. And it is sad that so many people who also attribute a central role to feelings, especially the religious sentiment, let themselves be duped by this material. I read a recent research report that would have identified a brain region responsible for feelings of "transcendence." In short, the predisposition to believe in a transcendent God would be entered in the brain. There is no need to say that this is a way to ridicule the religious sentiment and the idea for the existence of God, the whole downgrading to a material feature of the individual? A person would believe in God only because his brain is made in a certain way, another would be an atheist to a different conformation of the brain. What is most sad is that "scientists" who have found this great product and believers say they believe they have helped to establish the foundation of faith, because it would determine the bases "objective". Other than relativism, this is mental and moral confusion. Against the obsession with "brain" must defend the reasons of the heart. "
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