Klarinet Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 2000/09

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Language vs. music (was Phrasing With the Harmony)
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 20:56:24 -0400

<><> Stewart=A0Kiritz wrote:
Alas, I have not read "Descartes' Error" But I am reading an excellent
book about the mind called "Consciousness Explained," which deals with,
I believe, some of the same issues.

I suppose that almost any book on psychology must discuss
consciousness to some degree, and Descartes' Error does so also.
But the central theme of Descartes' Error is that the same neural
structures that process our incoming senses also participate and to some
extent determine higher cognition and the actions/words that we
'output', even if we aren't always aware of this shared use.
Therefore, trying to separate 'cognition' from 'emotion' is an
error that overlooks fundamental mechanisms at work in both cases.
The author (according to the jacket) helped uncover the biological
mechanism of Alzheimer's and other things of that sort. He's more into
neurology than into behavioral psychology. The book starts with the
Phineas Gage case, and therefore you may be tempted to say, "Oh no, not
this stuff again!" and put the book down. But the author takes Gage's
case in an entirely different direction than most neurology
popularizations do.

Cheers,
Bill

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