“Accepting dualism is giving up, but avoiding it is not
easy” There is certainly a constant man struggle with mind and body, there is
an extended dialogue which rises questions and no objective answers, for it
seems to be further than science. According to the reading Feinberg said the
way to approach the brain is to question, “what the brain does not what the brain is”
The way I think about it is, of course there is certain
explanatory characteristics in the individuals that can be describe through science,
such as the DNA, our physical qualities, etc. Yet is through our experiences as
well that we arrive to individual thinking. The body is the constant, the mind
is the change. We are 50% genes 50% environment. It is not so much in the
dualism of the body and the mind, because I believe that certainly is in
dialogue, but rather on how mind functions, (what the brain does). As William James conclude “much
of what goes on in the nervous system is unconscious and that our conscious
experiences depend upon unconscious processing” .
Another interesting point in the reading that wasn’t only mentioned but not discussed that I would
have not taken for granted was the idea of Intentionality and the meaning of
this word. I recently read an article by Susan Sontag titled “Against
interpretation” that talked about audiences wanting to interpret all artists
intentions, yet this rises different discourse especially for me as an artist. What
is our need to interpret? Why do we assume there is always an intention?
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