DECEMBER'S TOPIC: BRAIN, MIND AND INTELLECT
In chapter 12 of Lila, R. M. Pirsig writes:
‘The mind-matter paradoxes seem to exist because the connecting links between
these two levels of value patterns have been disregarded. Two terms are
missing: biology and society. Mental patterns do not originate out of
inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of
biology, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists
know so well, what a mind thinks is as dominated by social patterns as social
patterns are dominated by biological patterns are dominated by inorganic
patterns. There is no direct scientific connection between mind and matter.
As the atomic physicist, Niels Bohr, said, "We are suspended in language."
Our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived.’
Brains, minds and intellectual patterns……. How are these related to each other
and to society? What defines and distinguishes an intellectual pattern and
gives it its lofty perch atop the static patterns of value?
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