From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Fri Dec 17 2004 - 10:43:04 GMT
Hi Chin,
> My curiosity comes from the thought that some have more inherent knowledge
> than others prior to any 'Molding' of the mind by the school system. My
> question on this, which I have come no where close to answering would be is
> it a matter of a make up of the brain or of the mind? Pheneas Gage, the
> earliest subject of neurology, brought on the realization that there are
> more active parts of the brain in some than in others. In an undamaged
> brain, my curiosity is in the idea that the brain is conditioned by the mind
> or heredity or culture, or is it a condition you are born with.
Have you read Antonio Damasio's 'Descartes' Error'? Very interesting discussion of Gage which sets
the scene for his wider conclusions, that emotions have to be included in an account of the mind.
Sam
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