logical & illogical in the brain

Dear FIS colleagues,

  The following is an invitation to speak on the relation between the logic
and the illogical which in their ensemble would make up the world.

I wonder what the FIS agenda is thought to be by anyone who assumes logic
is somehow embedded in the mechanics of the universe. (from Ted)
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We distinguish our logical thought-based processes against the other ways
of functioning of our nervous system. We agree that a child (a newborn)
does not think logically, that one s logic leaves one in times of great
emotional stress, and that chemical imbalances of the brain /e.g. drugs,
intoxications/ affect our capacities for logical thoughts.

That is, what we denote as logic is a specific result of a specific way of
functioning of a human brain. (It is also in some circumstances
understandable when one speaks about an animal's behaviour as being
logical, that is, in itself reasonable.)

Let me propose that we designate the patterns of electrical discharges of
the brain (the so-called thought processes) as logical. But the brain's
electrical processes are without question embedded in the brains overall
bio-chemical (osmotic, ionic, metabolic, hormonal...) processes. In a
well-functioning brain, the two interact with each other. One's nutrition
influences one's sanity as a thinking individual, and one's ways of
thinking influence the health of one as a biologic sanitas /health/ as a body.

My proposition is that FIS investigates the intimate relationships between
what we think and what we feel on one hand, and what we feel and what we
think on the other hand.

In what cases is what we think a result of how we have fed or slept or
breathed, and in what cases is what we eat or sleep or breathe a result of
what we think? Is there an interrelation between the electrical discharges
of the brain and the osmotic, metabolic, hormonal, chemical processes of
the same brain?

If so, what assembly is more mighty? (I have chosen the word mighty in full
use of its several meanings).
The thinking subsystem monopolizes in the scientific discourse the access
to the verbal center (the speech apparatus) and introduces itself as the
real, rational, logical, only valid person speaking. The feeling subsystem
does not come into contact with the microphone apparently (but for some
notable exceptions: tone and rhythm of speech, emotional utterances...)

best wishes

Karl
Received on Thu Sep 12 14:01:47 2002