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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Cogito Ego Sum II

“I woke up to discover that I had a brain disorder of my own. A blood vessel exploded in the left half of my brain. And in the course of 4 hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information....”

When this Harvard researcher lost much of the function of her left brain, she also lost her ego ... and found bliss.

Those mystics and poets who said everything is connected were right. While Descartes went down an important Western path, with important limitations. Watch the video.

Egonomics: Materialism & the Ego in the Twentieth Century
The Modernist Disease: Cogito Ego Sum

July 17, 2008 in Culture, Religion & Metaphysics, Science, Web/Tech | Permalink

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WOW! what a revelation
that was good

Posted by: JUST COOL Design Blog at Jul 26, 2008 9:51:19 PM