Ideas and concepts are, in my (biology-driven) opinion, (physically-related) things, because they are produced, or and languaged, by biological (human) organisms. When a new idea or concept is learned, or created (invented), new neural connections, or and neurons, are also created in our brains (and body). I had read somewhere that each (new) concept /idea is allocated in one certain (new) neuron. Maybe this hypothesis is wrong, but anyway it reflect the neurological (thus biological) correspondence of our mental processes. Being myself a biologist, I am generaly amazed by the (biological) alienation of linguists and others, that speak of words, utterances, language, and ideas, or concepts, as if they only belong to a non-materialistic, or non-physical world. For me, in that way, (maybe) the most direct (anti-) philosopher would be Wittgenstein.
Cuando dices: "Lo que más acrecienta la felicidad son las relaciones interpersonales", estoy de acuerdo, pero para ser ecológicamente inclusivas, habría que sumar las relaciones "interespecíficas" y con el paisaje o ecosistema, para mí "el talón de aquiles" del eurocentrismo, tan solipsista que no ve más allá del individuo (humano), ni de nuestra especie (humano = zomby). Salir del Shock ("por la puerta trasera") es aprender del Sur y de su comunitarismo inclusivo, luego ecosistémico. Salir de nuestra (eurocéntrica, antropocéntrica) desmemoria, de nuestro Alzheimer, volviendo a mirar y conversar, con los mirlos, las gotas de agua al sol... eso que llamaban "las pequeñas cosas", como indica este "acuciante" enlace: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-rest/201105/is-another-way-avoid-alzheimers-0
Quizas así comprendamos por qué nos costaba tanto mirar, como dices, hacia las alternativas, hacia la ciudad y el territorio, hacia los huertos urbanos..., hacia lo que nos construye.
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ResponderEliminarIdeas and concepts are, in my (biology-driven) opinion, (physically-related) things, because they are produced, or and languaged, by biological (human) organisms. When a new idea or concept is learned, or created (invented), new neural connections, or and neurons, are also created in our brains (and body). I had read somewhere that each (new) concept /idea is allocated in one certain (new) neuron. Maybe this hypothesis is wrong, but anyway it reflect the neurological (thus biological) correspondence of our mental processes. Being myself a biologist, I am generaly amazed by the (biological) alienation of linguists and others, that speak of words, utterances, language, and ideas, or concepts, as if they only belong to a non-materialistic, or non-physical world. For me, in that way, (maybe) the most direct (anti-) philosopher would be Wittgenstein.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wittgenstein+in+cambridge&oq=wittgenstein+in+cambridge&gs_l=youtube.3..0.19077.23696.0.23992.17.5.2.10.11.0.102.418.4j1.5.0…0.0…1ac.1.8X9o8wHJFgo
Today I discovered this article about Alzheimer’s (a “hypermental” disease?) and Nature, that, at least for me, try to put things in their way…
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-rest/201105/is-another-way-avoid-alzheimers-0
Thanks for sharing ideas and concepts!
Comenting in: http://soypublica.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/como-inmunizarnos-a-la-estrategia-del-shock/
ResponderEliminarCuando dices: "Lo que más acrecienta la felicidad son las relaciones interpersonales", estoy de acuerdo, pero para ser ecológicamente inclusivas, habría que sumar las relaciones "interespecíficas" y con el paisaje o ecosistema, para mí "el talón de aquiles" del eurocentrismo, tan solipsista que no ve más allá del individuo (humano), ni de nuestra especie (humano = zomby). Salir del Shock ("por la puerta trasera") es aprender del Sur y de su comunitarismo inclusivo, luego ecosistémico. Salir de nuestra (eurocéntrica, antropocéntrica) desmemoria, de nuestro Alzheimer, volviendo a mirar y conversar, con los mirlos, las gotas de agua al sol... eso que llamaban "las pequeñas cosas", como indica este "acuciante" enlace:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-rest/201105/is-another-way-avoid-alzheimers-0
Quizas así comprendamos por qué nos costaba tanto mirar, como dices, hacia las alternativas, hacia la ciudad y el territorio, hacia los huertos urbanos..., hacia lo que nos construye.