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why do so many people think the brain is somehow totally isolated from the body? (leminal.space)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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like the brain is literally encased in the body so how can it be separate? like if you go around licking lamp posts you're going to pick up some germ that's gonna make you feel like crap and you get insomnia or fever and your brain will definitely be impacted. and so you'll have short temper and that'll get you into trouble.

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[–] 22 points 10 months ago (1 child)

It's because of mind-body dualism. Most people have absorbed some amount of mysticism from the culture around them without realizing it, and a distressing amount of Western mystic traditions have some form of mind-body or spirit-body dualism.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    True, and nondual traditions like tantric Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, and Kashmir Shivism really have a leg up in that regard, but Descartes really cemented it as the supposed “objective” fact (lol) that it is today.

    The root problem though is the felt sense of separation the mind creates but that mystical experiences can dissolve.

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