You Are Not Your Brain

The mind cannot be “the brain,” for whereas the brain is a thing, the mind is not. More than that, he is also uniquely a subject—a person. He is self-conscious, free, rational, and thereby responsible for his actions. But he is also not less than his body. The human being is, as French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty put it, an “embodied subject. Read Full Article »