Фельденкрайз и Дамасио про тело-и-сознание

Попалась ссылка на очень любопытную статью про невролога Антонио Дамасио и его книги, в которых он на основе исследований пытается ответить на тот самый противоречивый вопрос про mind/body relationship:

«Descartes’ error was not so much to insist that there are two «substances,» namely thinking mind, and body occupying space. It was to separate thinking, rationality, the capacity for language, and so on from the body. Hence to isolate them from the passions, including feelings and emotions. Descartes held that our emotional life works in the body, exactly as it does in animals, which have feelings (sentiments in his French) just as we do. The fact that for Descartes the workings of the body, including the passions, were modeled on mechanics and hydraulics is unimportant. It was a best guess, based on the science of the day. But the deep error, the separation of reason from emotion, prevented Descartes from conceiving the entire organism as a thinking, feeling being.»

mp3 лекции «Emotion, Feeling, and Social Behavior: The Brain Perspective».

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“What I’m after isn’t flexible bodies, but flexible brains.”

“I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality. They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but an inseparable whole while functioning. A brain without a body could not think.”

“Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths to overcome or cover up their weaknesses. Those few who use their strengths to incorporate their weaknesses, who don’t divide themselves, those people are very rare. In any generation there are a few and they lead their generation. ”

— Moshe Feldenkrais