Risk to make nonsense
This is my two-fingers up to the ever-increasing pathologisation of life:
Tag: Raymond Tallis
the literature and the science
I have always found the idea of “two cultures” as incredibly silly. We should not need bridges to unite the arts and the sciences. Hole Ousia is an indescribable somewhere … Continue reading the literature and the science
‘A trillion cognitive handshakes’
“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of the mind.” Anonymous, The Dhammapada
‘Neuromania’
Raymond Tallis has described ‘Neuromania’ as attempting to“pack what has grown out of, and beyond, so many brains over so many millennia back into the stand-alone brain examined in the … Continue reading ‘Neuromania’
the stand-alone brain
The following quote from page 92 of ‘Aping Mankind’ by Raymond Tallis was about ‘stand-alone brain’ research. I was reminded of this in coming across a recent “Brain Camp” where … Continue reading the stand-alone brain
“that fast acting solvent of critical faculties”
Raymond Tallis begins Chapter 3 of his book ‘Aping Mankind’: “Neuro-talk is often accompanied by a picture of a brain scan, that fast acting solvent of critical faculties.”
‘ . . . they fill the world with meaning’
A psychiatrist colleague of mine once regarded my “sensitivity” not just as “weakness” but as “illness”:
‘An awkward customer for biology’
Raymond Tallis on consciousness:
‘All medical decisions are . . .’
Here, Raymond Tallis considers a common mistake:
‘the essence of good clinical decision-making’
In his talk ‘The mystery and paradox of scientific medicine‘ Raymond Tallis remarked:
My notebook will be better than a doctor
Filmed on the bridge of Advie, the bridge of Abernethy, the brig o’ Boat and the Logierait Viaduct. Thanks to Yann Martel, E M Forster, T S Eliot, O G … Continue reading My notebook will be better than a doctor
Behind the graph lie a million stories
This film is for Raymond Tallis, Eric Matthews and Patrick Geddes. This is a short film that considers the so-called “two culture” divide between the Arts and the Sciences. The … Continue reading Behind the graph lie a million stories