Mind over matter - a short exposé
I mentioned a few things (the last blog on fear; in Dutch) about transcendency and pointed at the disappearance of mind in our current culture. Well, we still use the word ‘mind’, but it seems to me that it is used rather metaphorically than anything else. Neurobiology has taken over, it seems. Our thoughts are, so the reductive story goes, firing neurons, and our fear is biologically ingrained as mechanism of survival....