Of Two Minds

In Two Minds

Criminals have their activities described as 'a career crime', and Dr. R. D. Laing has spoken of 'madness j*s a career'. Large industries have been created around careers: police, prisons, mental hospitals, psychiatrists, welfare and so on. The productive aim of oese industries is rehabilitated persons?i.e. people jfl whom the tendency to mad or criminal behaviour been eliminated. The criterion...

Two minds about odors.

I t has long been suggested that synchronous fast oscillations in central sensory systems facilitate formation of neural assemblies that represent sensory objects. This hypothesis derives from the olfactory system, where odorevoked fast oscillations of 40 Hz and above in the local field potential of the mammalian olfactory bulb (OB) were first reported by Adrian (1). Similar oscillations ( 20 H...

SALT Supporters of Two Minds on Treaty.

In Communication of Two Bodies and Two Minds: Vicious Opponents

1. Mensch, J.R. After Modernity. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996, p. 169ff. 2. Stewart, D., & Blocker, G. Fundamentals of Philosophy. New York: The Humanities Press, 1996, p. 64ff. 3. Merleau-Ponty, M. Pllenomenology of Perception (Colin Smith, Trans.). New York: Ute Humanities Press, 1962, p.73ff. 4. Mensch, After Modernity, p. 62. 5. Luckmann, T. "On Intersubjective Constitut...

Hemispheric asymmetries: A brain in two minds

The two cerebral hemispheres are specialised for different cognitive functions, and which hemisphere's strategy is superior depends on the nature of the task. A new study of split-brain patients has provided another unexpected insight: the two hemispheres use different strategies when performing a guessing task.