Friday, May 27, 2005

Liminocentric structures and Topo-sense

I hope I don't loose a lot of people on this one. This article is also closely associated to the thread on models of math that are constructed. Here Topo-sense is being referrred here.

I like to think, and if I didn't, I wouldn't exist? So who's going to move this lump of matter? If it isn't motivated....will I exist?

What moved the types of neurons to exist?



"The Mind is Inherently Embodied"

Our brains take their input from the rest of our bodies. What our bodies are like and how they function in the world thus structures the very concepts we can use to think. We cannot think just anything - only what our embodied brains permit."

Without some path mapped out by the brain, what use are neurons that follow behind it?



If we did not think "the lifeforce" as something just outside the body, what would we assign matter distinctions like our bodies? Lumps of clay? :)



Damasio's First Law
The body precedes the mind.

Damasio's Second Law
Emotions precede feelings.

Damasio's Third Law
Concepts precede words.



So Lakoff and Damasio present points of view from one position. So how shall we see life, if it did not have some motivation? No spark?

So is there a physiological consequence for many who see this "light at the end of the tunnel" would have been no less the descent through what we used in the beginning?

This presents all kinds of possibilties? What is the essence of each of us if we had preassigned determinations besides our personalities, with which we can grow and mould. While, distinctive attributes have been initiated with the growth of the body? I mean, I am speculating here?

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