It is often felt that Darwin, more than anyone, banished “meaning” from the world – in the sense of any overall divine meaning or purpose. There is indeed no design, no plan, no blueprint in Darwin’s world; natural selection has no direction or aim, nor any goal to which it strives. Darwinism, it is often said, spelled the end of teleological thinking.
And in its broadest sense, neural Darwinism implies that we are destined, whether we wish it or not, to a life of particularity and self-development, to make our own individual paths through life.
All the trouble starts when people forget they’re human.
I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. I must focus on myself, my work, and my friends.
I appreciated that all animals have some form of mental life that reflects the architecture of their nervous system.
The structure of chaos is not static but dynamic;.
I am very bad at factual exams, yes-or-no questions, but can spread my wings with essays.
This state is thus one of an excruciating overall sensitivity, patients being assaulted by sensory stimuli from their environment, or.
Far commoner, and perhaps the most intolerable of all aura symptoms, is intense sudden vertigo accompanied by staggering, overwhelming nausea, and frequently vomiting. The.
All of us, at first, had high hopes of helping Jammie – he was so personable, so likable, so quick and intelligent, it was difficult to believe that he might be beyond help. But none of us had ever encountered, even imagined, such a power of amnesia, the possibility of a pit into which everything, every experience, every event, would fathomlessly drop, a bottomless memory-hole that would engulf the whole world.
Music can also evoke worlds very different from the personal, remembered worlds of events, people, places we have known.
Lev Vygotsky, the great Russian psychologist, used to speak of “thinking in pure meanings.” I cannot decide whether this is nonsense or profound truth – it is the sort of reef I end up on when I think about thinking.
This woman who, becoming everybody, lost her own self became nobody.
He has achieved what Nietzsche liked to call ‘The Great Health’ – rare humour, valour, and resilience of spirit: despite being, or because he is, afflicted with Tourette’s.
Presiding over the entire attack there will be, in du Bois Reymond’s words, “a general feeling of disorder,” which may be experienced in either physical or emotional terms, and tax or elude the patient’s powers of description.
Perception is never purely in the present – it has to draw on experience of the past.
The combination of mental and physical practice leads to greater performance improvement than does physical practice alone, a phenomenon for which our findings provide a physiological explanation. – Alvaro Pascual-Leone.
As for sickness: are we not almost tempted to ask whether we could get along without it?’ – and.
For ‘wellness’, naturally is no cause of complaint – people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill – not well. Unless, as George Eliot does, they have some intimation of ‘wrongness’ or danger, either through knowledge or association, or the very excess of excess. Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being ‘very well’, they may become suspicious if they feel ‘too well’.
Empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being.