It is not only since I’m working with biestmilch that I’m interested in the various states of cognition and being in the world. Biestmilch makes me deal first of all with the question of well-being. I know by now that the condition of well-being has so little to do with health. This candid talk of Jill B. Taylor supports my notion.
When I was working in psychiatry, I was confronted with states of being and cognition of a very different kind. Psychotic states made me realize the versatility and volatility of what we call real. The presentation of Jill Taylor is enlightening, and may give you an idea about the fluidity of cognition, consciousness, awareness, reality, you name it. Jill B. Taylor translates her experience on the edge of life into words, into the words of a scientist – another person might have done this differently. She gives us a logic explanation for 2 very different but fundamental conditions of being in the world: 1) feeling boundless as an integral part of the universe or/and 2) being a creature confined to the body embodying a social being. Our awareness of being in the world is drifting between these poles of existence depending on the signals we are exposed to from the insight and the outside.
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke. As it happened – as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding – she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
She is telling about her own experience and it sounds like she is having this experience right now. Its a wonderful not common presentation which forces you to listen from the beginning to the end. Congratulation!
I’ve been recommending a book by Jill Bolte Taylor called “My Stroke of Insight” to everyone I know. It’s an amazing story, both uplifting and powerful on three levels: physical, emotional, and spiritual, but the spiritual aspect alone makes this the best book I’ve read all year.
How often do you get to hear a neuroscientist describe having a stroke, nearly dying and finding Nirvana, and then making a miraculous recovery so that she’s back to teaching medical students!?!
I came away with a renewed sense of understanding, wonder and hopefulness about the capabilities of the human brain. I give “My Stroke of Insight” highest marks!
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What I liked about the real piriodec table is the predictive behavior it had. It would be cool to predict everything that could be predicted
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