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As neurologists, psychologists and biologists have zeroed in more and more precisely on the physical causes of mental disorders, they have found themselves addressing a much deeper mystery, a set of interrelated conundrums probably as old as humanity: What, precisely, is the mind, the elusive entity where intelligence, decision making...
However, Descartes was profoundly wrong, it appears, in his assertion that mind and body are wholly independent. The mind, argues University of Iowa neurologist Antonio Damasio in his book Descartes' Error, is created by the body-specifically by the brain. Utterly contrary to common sense, though, and to the evidence...
Ironically, the rights rhetoric now deployed by conservative jurists has an exceptionally liberal pedigree. Ever since classical liberals like Locks and Kant fought for individual rights and democratic processes, their work was conceived primarily as an effort to limit the power of overbearing state authorities. They conceived of individuals' fundamental...
Later these hormones play a housekeeping role in the growth and maintenance of brain cells in both sexes. (In boys some testosterone is converted to estrogen in the brain.) When estrogen is in short supply, memory and thought processes can suffer. Psychologist Barbara Sherwin at Montreal's McGill University has...
But neither the strengthening of regionalstructures nor the strengthening of the UN willsave the world if both processes are not informedby that renewed spiritual charge which I see asthe only hope that the human race will surviveanother millennium.