Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 08:46:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com (Steven E. Callihan)
Subject: Re: Heidegger and Psychiatry


>In message <m0yosA9-0003DLC-AT-fwd06.btx.dtag.de>, Michael
>Eldred <artefact-AT-t-online.de> writes
>>Cologne, 24 June 1998
>>
>>A travel writer said this morning on the radio that she writes to "evoke the
>>atomsphere of a place in the reader's head".
>>How do all these things get into heads?
>>Where does it come from that it is so natural to talk about everything that
>>isn't before our eyes as being "in our head"?
>>Has any scientist every yet discovered an imagination "in the head"?
>It reminds me of the problem which Liebniz suggested: if we indefinitely
>enlarge the brain until we can stroll along its axons, dendrites, and skip
>accross its synaptic gaps, we would find no perceptions, mental 'stuffs',
>imagination, etc.
>But I think they are dangerously mis-reading Lebniz!!
>jim

But if you cut off the head, would there be any "perceptions, mental
'stuffs', imagination" left over? Say, just floating around in the aethyr.

Best,

Steve C.
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