Bi-cameral brains and Heidegger

[Mark Kohut]

no, not quite (yet) to me. Cultures can be self-destructive and others not,
with the same human beings with bi-cameral brains.

And, as even neuroscientists say, willing a new action starts a new habit
if continued. Writ large, we have a new culture.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Yes he is aware of exactly your concern but he clearly feels so persuaded
> by the case that hemisheric differences play out as cultural and thus
> historical patterns that in the second half of the book he admits to
> opening himself to this critique and begins to trace what he sees as an
> historic overview of western development as influenced by hemispheric
> bias.  In my reading thus far ( I am just starting the second half, going
> rather slower as I try to absorb the material) find myself already leaning
> to the validity of and need for such an interpretation. It just feels more
> satisfying than a moral overview or a technological overview, both of which
> have been given considerable attention but which fail in my mind to
> describe certain self destructive tendencies in the internal dynamics of
> human societies and the western development. Isn’t it altogether probable
> that the tendencies of brain function would be a powerful shaping force for
> larger social patterns, and might speak more precisely and with a kind of
> dipassionate understanding to those patterns?
>
>
> > On Feb 9, 2016, at 5:10 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I wrote a longer piece based on stuff said so far re The Master and His
> Emissary but the short version is: I am resistant
> > IF it will be used in arguing something substantive about writers of
> genius. I'll make my cases then if necessary.
> > The author's explanatory connections between
> > the bi-cameral mind and culture and history is one thing.........gonna
> be interesting to read.
> >
> > But as we all know aggregate truths do not easily apply to individual
> human cases in meaningful ways.
> > This is simply akin to all the combinatory statistical truths we know
> yet all that giving us almost no predictive insight into
> > any singular example.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> > The Master and His Emissary  draws frequently on the work of
> philosophers. But he finds Heidegger particularly insightful about the
> nature of the brain and the corresponding struggles in the larger modern
> culture. I know there were one or 2 p-listers who hold high regard for
> Heidegger’s philosphical work so thought to mention it.
> >
> >
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