Body
I was just thinking… I wrote that practicing guitar, the repetitive physical movement of my hands, is in fact teaching my brain over time. I am beginning to feel that this is in fact how we learn so much…
The thing is,Replica Purses, we cannot think our way out of this problem – we can only find that connection to the earth, to our bodies, to each other and all living creatures by doing…
This past weekend I thought about learning through physical experience, and specifically about the misperception – most prominent in Europe and the US? – that the brain IS our life, that the body is just a fragile appendage, to be shed, to be improved (bionic man), to be left behind (fifties sci-fi movies with a brain in a jar of nutrient fluid)… We live in temperature controlled environments, sit at desks and in front of computers or TVs for enormous stretches of time, are dreaming of downloading our mind into a computer (it better be a RAID drive)… in fact it seems to me that this lack of connection to our bodies is what lies at the root of our collective disregard for nature, of alienation, obesity and a host of other problems.
I scribbled many pages on this theme into my notebook while I was away this past weekend… I will add more as I decipher those sentences..
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