A new article I wrote is published in the September issue of Status Hat artszine. It’s called “Intelligence of the Heart.”
This is how it begins:
“I was always amused by the stories of doctors and philosophers who during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance would cut open a person’s corpse to try to locate where the soul resided. Was it in the spleen? Or the gall bladder?
Have things changed much? Not really. It’s just that nowadays our current scientific community has pretty much decided that our soul – or ‘intelligence’ – resides in our brain. It’s as though neuroscience is the religion of the times. Recent “studies” have even “proven” that the source of “love” is the brain. By studying rats, these priests of our modern-day society have been able to conclude that there are four tiny areas of the brain that form a circuit of love: the ventral tegmental area, the nucleus accumbens, the ventral pallidum, and raphe nucleus. So, that’s that.
Or is it?”
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Thanks for this, it’s a beautiful article. My mother, too, lost her memory in later years, from Alzheimer’s. But until she died her face always lit up in a warm smile if she saw a baby – her heart remembered.