File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9806, message 138


Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:15:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com (Steven E. Callihan)
Subject: Re:  Heidegger and Psychiatry


Michael Eldred wrote:

>Cologne 29 June 1998
>
>Mike Staples schrieb:
>> I like this conversation! It's kind of like Merlin versus the Mad Mrs.
>> Mim, where each wizard turns into a new animal to avoid being eaten by
>> the other.
>>
>>
>> Steven E. Callihan wrote:
>>
>> > Michael Eldred wrote:
>> >
>> > >> But if you cut off the head, would there be any "perceptions,
>> > mental
>> > >> 'stuffs', imagination" left over? Say, just floating around in the
>> > aethyr.
>> > >
>> > >The same applies if you cut out the heart, Steve.
>> >
>> > Not if you fairly immediately put another one back in. They are even
>> > talking
>> > now about using pigs' hearts for transplants. I doubt a pig's head
>> > would
>> > work as well.
>
>Only a matter of time until we know how to soup up a pig's head for the job.
>

I think that some, even now, might hardly tell the difference.

Best,

Steve
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