Me - conception to decomposition

I have been re-reading Eagleman’s “Incognito – the secret lives of the brain”. There is much to absorb. The unconscious is having a hard time keeping up. I will give it some space and see what it comes up with.

Paradigms. The conventional wisdom of the dominant group (cowdung). In the beginning there was only myth and magic but that was good enough to help us ‘explain’ life the universe and everything (ltuae).

God and the eternal verities. The divine right of kings. The flat earth. Indivisible atoms. Counter-argument = burn at the stake.

‘Science’ is evolving and gradually transforming. It gives us not the ‘truth’ but rather the best working hypothesis in the light of evidence presently available.

Specialist classical disciplinary silos are giving way to multidisciplinary consilience (aka sociobiology). Holism rather than (as well as) reductionism. Counter-argument = a scientist’s duty and moral obligation.

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
…
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
John Donne (1572 – 1631)

Me, myself, I, ego – the boundary?, No boundary (Wilber)

Conception to decomposition
What was your face before you were conceived, born, matured, grown old, dead, decomposed