Taste Buds & Biology (was Re: Littleton: it's Adorno's fault)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Oct 6 07:44:20 PDT 1999


"Mr P.A. Van Heusden" wrote:


> And I'm sorry, but Carrol's 'brain vs. mind' dichotomy just doesn't cut it
> for me - it sounds mechanical.

If you check again you will see I didn't set up that dichotomy. I did deny that there could be an independent science of psychology -- independent of *either* politics or neuroscience. Try it from the other end. Tell me what "The Mind" is. I know social relations exist -- wherever and whenever we (either the individual or the species) find ourselves we are always already enmeshed in a web of social relations. I know the brain exists. Observations on the brain have applicabiltiy to all brains. Observations on social relations have applicability to all who are constituted by those social relations. Observations on psychology don't bear on anything. They are merely data to be explained. "The Mind" is just another name for the soul of Christianity or the abstract individual of bourgeois society.

Carrol



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