Word: mender
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...just an illusion manufactured by the brain. Any illusion by definition is a conscious phenomenon. Thus the view of consciousness as mere illusion contradicts itself. We must do more than reduce the mind to a mass of brain circuits if we want to understand subjective human experience. DONALD MENDER, M.D. New York City...
...rush to embrace biological explanations of human behavior is not without its critics. "We have some links, but they don't prove cause and effect," says Dr. Donald Mender, author of The Myth of Neuropsychiatry. It's the same statistical quandary that basketball coaches face all the time. Nearly all great male hoopsters tower over 6 ft. 5 in. But that does not mean that all tall men are great basketball players. Says Mender: "The danger lies in seeing people as if they were machines...