more complex

blood flow may directly impact cognitive function in the brain.

i love how we’re finding that the brain is really more complex than simply a neural network, that it’s deeply interconnected with the whole organism (with the environment even). therefore, consciousness would not really be a cartesian split as descarte framed things.

though i appreciate one kind of split: the idea that mind is not ‘me’ entirely: that i can experience the process of ‘mind’ in my self awareness, and that the experience of mind (ie. thoughts and emotions) can be like just other phenomenon and i can be curious about it and learn about it neutrally.

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