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From the beginning, the philosophy raises the dilemma between matter and spirit. This basic dichotomy in the design of existing extended to other pairs of opposites, but always included in the first.
Traditional science defends its scaffolding materials against the onslaught of ever-renewed sense that senses the presence of the insubstantial. The dualism reappears again and again under the most diverse forms, such as problems: brain-mind nature and culture, matter and spirit, body-mind-psyche nerve function, body and soul, physiological functions, thought, material-immaterial, polo-polo neuronal social, physical processes, mental processes, physical-metaphysical, natural-supernatural etc ...
The dualities above refer to two dimensions. In one of them (material) are located concepts: brain, nature, art, body, nerve function, physiological functions, polo neuronal, physical processes and physics. In the other (spiritual) line: Mind, culture, spirit, psyche, soul, thought, heritage, social pole, psychic processes, metaphysics and supernatural.
One of these pairs becomes relevant issues on the other, the brain-mind. Perhaps, because it occupies a prominent place in the philosophical writings, neurophysiologists because they spend many hours in his research laboratory, or for being an existential question of every human being.


Image: The brain material and parts. Http://diariodeltoc.wordpress.com/ picture on Google Images.

hard scientists (monistic) consider the materiality of nerve functions, based on the strength of biological research, allows the explanation of mental phenomena and do not accept the participation of symbolic cultural tours in the making of this phenomenon. For their part, those that distinguish the presence of spiritual forces (dualistic) is inclined by an understanding of the mind as complementary between the substance and the insubstantial reality.



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Many people and institutions, some ancient, are devoted exclusively to things of the spirit and directly linked to major sectors of society. Their efforts, passion, goals, outcomes, retention, adaptation, are not irrelevant when you set the vision of the world. This should be a red alert to scientific reasoning. Phenomena that occur that are beyond the materialist conception can not be ignored as if it happened. This, without reference to extra-events (beyond the five senses) treated by parapsychology. OK
monist or dualist position from a previous episteme condition. In the first case materialistic, away from the supernatural and, second, imbued with religious content, enshrined in the divine. Both positions dominated by fundamentalism stun it difficult to generate paradigmatic innovations.
These sterile intellectual confrontations "everything to me-anything for you" are also a form of black-white dualism and is well known that the universe is essentially gray. If materialism is constitutively atheist and spiritualism in the pair boxed in all natural-supernatural, it is possible to break the deadlock by philosopher-theologian epistemic modification of the substrate.
regard include some observations:
hard • Neuroscientists believe that the mind can be reduced to brain function is, that the psyche is due to physiological phenomena. Everything is cause and effect of one-dimensional processes: the material. Thus, leaving aside a special circumstance: two categories admitted and unavoidable, the matter abiotic and living. The brain is matter and if he dies but remains a subject neural activity disappears. Life can not be understood in physics. Consequently, they should recognize at least two dimensions.
• soft Neuroscientists, however, argue that the mind can be reduced to brain function, but that can be correlated with it. That is, is a physical process and psychological at the same time, or psychophysical. For the reasons above, in this case must take into account three dimensions: physical, biological and psychological.
• The existence of neural circuits in the brain is beyond dispute. Instead, say the soft mental activity depends on correlations between the brain and extraneuronal dimensions. Here the field expands to come into play notions of psyche, culture, society, language, thought, conscience. All these concepts can be included in a single dimension or multiple.
• The first dualism is abiotic-living matter. On this everyone agreement and no one has in mind. In summary, the dualist and monist are indeed the dualists are at least trialist or, in expectation, Enel.



Image: The mind-brain correlations understood as extraneuronal dimensions. Photo http://www.virket.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/08/el-papel-del-internet-en-la-evolucion-y-desarrollo-de-la-mente-humana/ mind-humana.jpg in Google Images


Reflections

If life can not be explained by the laws of physics. Can the mind be reduced to a biological phenomenon?

If the mind appears to correlate human cultural tours with neural circuits Is it a product that exceeds the boundaries of the brain? "The psyche is also situated outside the corporeal limits? In fact that culture itself.

Brain and mind. There is no mind without brain, however, if any, and has in fact, that there is brain without a mind. Do they belong to different stages?

If the ideas in play are around key concepts such as brain matter (physical), neuronal physiology (biological), mental activity (psyche), cultural tours (society) How do we set the reality? In how many dimensions Three? A? Two? More?

the brain active. Sorry! Mind. Sorry! Cultural circuit.

Mario Hails, February 2010

"Evolution is a universal phenomenon in-time."

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Evolution: Darwinian aspects raise questions

The young naturalist Charles English Darwin, after failing in their college careers in medicine and theology (for rural clergy) is dedicated to studying natural history with his friend John Henslow, a priest and botanist. So, he resumed his collections of minerals and insects that collect call from child. The study of plants helps your training in the art and allows his naturalist friend recommended as Captain Robert Fitz Roy, commander of the Beagle expedition ship routes responsible for ascertaining, among other things, around the world. (Rodríguez Acero, 2004)

Image: Charles Darwin, different perspectives. Natural Science Museum in London. "Trends of religions" in: http://www.tendencias21.net/La-evolucion-es-un-hecho, "el-Darwinism-a-teoria_a3508.html

The trip lasts five years and there are many places visited, including Argentina, on the southern tip of America. Among 1835 Darwin 1833 and runs through not only the costs but sailing upstream along rivers and vast plains rides, some deserted and others, very fertile, like the pampas.
Darwin recorded in his expeditions characteristics of the fauna, flora, fossils and geological peculiarities of the territory. Also, records in his "travel diary" stories about the lifestyles of human societies that inhabit these lands. In these comments, the British researcher shows sociological qualities and highlights an interesting facet of his personality.
Overall charge always relevant actions directly naturalist linked to its theory of the origin of species. However, other aspects are very interesting trip which are summarized below:
• Interview with General Juan Manuel de Rosas in the military camp located on the banks of the Colorado River on their journey on horseback from Buenos Carmen de Patagones up Aires (1000 km at the time). His description of the Argentine leader of the lives of the troops and the war of extermination of the natives is valuable and interesting. (Litvinoff, When Darwin met Rosas)
• From Buenos Aires continues north to Santa Fe (470 km) and includes the Governor, General Estanislao López started as a private, of order and cleanliness reign under tight command and regrets that the costs of the Paraná river had not been conquered by his countrymen. (Litvinoff, The Human Factor extinction)
• Consider administration justice and public corruption, with a lack of principles in the ruling class, and recognizes the human field or gaucho conditions far superior to living in cities. . (Litvinoff, The evolutionary feature of corruption)
• With pleasure along the river Deseado, despite its rugged and desolate margins and senses that in the past, the sea covered the region. (Litvinoff, the wonderful desolation)
• You are mistaken, not having yet taken the idea of \u200b\u200badaptation to the human species, in describing the indigenous people who live south of Tierra del Fuego, the Yamana, abject and miserable creatures. Leo, now virtually extinct, sail in canoes far superior to any other built in southern Africa. . (Litvinoff, The adaptation of the human species).
• When crossing the Strait of Magellan, Darwin notes that both sides of the channel fit into each other and think that many years ago the island of Tierra del Fuego was connected to the mainland, as has now been verified (Litvinoff, Beyond the limits of the world).
• From the Pacific, at the foot of the snowcapped mountains that now bear his name, "Cordillera Darwin" provides immense and numerous glaciers and interpret the rocks found on the beach must have been moved by glaciers many more extensive than he saw at that time. . (Litvinoff, between glaciers and cups).
• From Chile across the Andes, return to investigate sites in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. On this trip notes that the Andes are composed mainly of submarine lava and were originally seabed. (Litvinoff, Cape Horn: The Adventure of bending the end of the world).

Image: Charles Darwin Young. In mjrubio.files.wordpress.com / 2009/02/darwin_1.jpg

Reflections

natives south of the Beagle Channel, those Tierra del Fuego, the plain warring with Rosas, the gaucho who fought in the outposts, the natives set out in the pampas, the settlers in Buenos Aires, the people of London: living in a single stage or cultural differences exist enough to categorize levels of evolution?
cultural transformations, from body language to the internet: are explained by natural selection and genetic mutation?
If Patagonia and the Andes emerged from the seabed, if Tierra del Fuego is away from the continent, if the glaciers modify the relief cordillerano: geological and cosmological transformations in general are also part of the process of evolution?
In this case, physical evolution, the Big Bang to the present day, find an answer in the Darwinian ideas?

Mario Hails - February 2010

Bibliography:

Litvinoff, Edgardo, special envoy of the newspaper La Voz del Interior, Cordoba, Argentina. Letters published in 2009. www.lavoz.com.ar, or at: http://blogs.lavozdelinterior.net/forms/frmBlogDesplegado.aspx?NewsId=2484&WbId=164

Rodríguez Acero, Margarita, 2004, foreword to The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Buenos Aires, SA Longseller

"Evolution is a universal phenomenon in-time."