Thursday, 6 January 2011

Mind and body

Is my conscious mind seperate from my body? Dualism - comes from Descartes Cogito etc. The mind is something other than the matter of my body. Is the mind contained in the grey matter of the brain? If I dissect a brain - even to its smallest component - can I really find pleasure, emotions, taste, smell? They have, on the other hand, found memory. If a certain part of the brain is stimulated memories of specific days return. So is the brain just a big filing cabinet?
What about emotion? And music or art?

are babies born self  concious?

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