How the Self Controls Its Brain (1994)
Context: The more we discover scientifically about the brain the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phenomena and the more wonderful do the mental phenomena become. Promissory materialism is simply a superstition held by dogmatic materialists. It has all the features of a Messianic prophecy, with the promise of a future freed of all problems—a kind of Nirvana for our unfortunate successors.
“More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar
Utterly this fair garden we might win.”
St. 48.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
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