Philosophy

Taking Heart and Making Sense: a New View of Nature, Feeling and the Body | Karin Lindgaard

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IS FEELING A PHENOMENON OF THE BODY OR THE BRAIN?

What do animals feel?

How do living systems become conscious?

Taking Heart and Making Sense takes on these and many more questions about the natural world and human experience, helping us to understand our feelings and emotions, and our sense of meaning in life.

Taking Heart and Making Sense takes readers on a conceptual adventure across many disciplines, presenting contemporary theories about feeling and emotion by major researchers in psychology, philosophy and cognitive science.

Lindgaard points out themes as well as problems in these theories, and frames them in relation to our fundamental concepts about the world. Solving these problems requires nothing less than a profound shift in worldview.
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Another Word on Monism

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Originally by J. de Bonniot 
Edition by D. Major
This, our second article on this topic, addresses the question of the origin of the earliest known organized beings. It also discusses the propensity of science to embrace reason, rather than faith in divine intervention. A firm corollary of this essential characteristic of science is the proposal and adoption of two indubitable and fundamental premises:

1) That there was a period during which the Earth was composed entirely and solely of mixed mineral elements; and

2) That scientific experience demonstrates the inability of such a mineral milieu to be a precondition for the development of life.

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