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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 06:27:57 EST
Subject: Re: Crucial Questions on Life



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when i first read Berk's mesage I was bemused, not because mind/body/brain 
questions are frivolous but because I didn't se their relevance, to Bourdieu. 
However the liveliness of responses and the reactivation of the list meant 
that even if irrelevant to Bourdieu it invigorated   the list nevertheless. 
The comment on the irrelevance of the question in general that saw the 
mind/brain question as academic self induglence was mind boggling dumb as was 
the  idea that if we really cared about this then there might be world peace. 
You might find attempts to delineate experience and phenomena, the 'real' and 
identity, selfindulgent but   multinationals like Hoffman-LaRoche do not. 
Brain mapping   and delineating (whether there is) a difference between brain 
(organism) and mind (experience) is central to pharmaceutical profits and 
psychiatry - prozac any one? does serotonin=happiness? does unhappiness lead 
to a serotonin drop or is it caused by it? the future of cyberbrain 
modification etc is born also at the philosophy/technology interface. 

Alev 

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when i first read Berk's mesage I was bemused, not because mind/body/brain questions are frivolous but because I didn't se their relevance, to Bourdieu. However the liveliness of responses and the reactivation of the list meant that even if irrelevant to Bourdieu it invigorated   the list nevertheless. The comment on the irrelevance of the question in general that saw the mind/brain question as academic self induglence was mind boggling dumb as was the  idea that if we really cared about this then there might be world peace. You might find attempts to delineate experience and phenomena, the 'real' and identity, selfindulgent but   multinationals like Hoffman-LaRoche do not. Brain mapping   and delineating (whether there is) a difference between brain (organism) and mind (experience) is central to pharmaceutical profits and psychiatry - prozac any one? does serotonin=happiness? does unhappiness lead to a serotonin drop or is it caused by it? the future of cyberbrain modification etc is born also at the philosophy/technology interface.

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