“As for cognition, do we not think, literally here, with hands and eyes?” pg 230
“..there is nothing to fear in the rise to prominence of neurobiological attempts to understand and account for human behavior.” pg 232
Why does something physical
Have more weight than something
Ideological? If it exists physically
We give something more thought, more
Courtesy than if it is an idea.
A man does not have himself killed
For a petty distinction
You must speak to his soul.
But how do you do that if
His soul is neurons and clusters
and brain cells? Surely the same way.
With words, ideas. Sounds.
Sounds that are physical, waves
To be interpreted by a brain.
But their meaning will resonate long after
The waves haveĀ dissipated.
Ideologies have weight. Nazism, communism,
Slavery, sexism, racism, transphobia.
Weight, and
Body counts.
But we cannot see sexism, or touch
Transphobia. If it exists in our neurons
It is most likely because it exists in
Our culture.
So why so much emphasis
On what is physical?