Reading Joel

I had seen these but not had the time to read them until Cynthia Nielson directed me back. But please read his rational animality post as a great entry alluding at issues I was trying to address in this post thinking about the “brain body” model of educational films and stuff in Theology After Wittgenstein. It’s a pretty similar deal, I think, distancing our true selves “in our heads” from our bodies. And even roboticizing our bodies, translating nerves as wires, etc, seems like a suppression of our animals selves.

And, related in some way, Bob, you’ll want to read this.

Oh, something completely off the cuff: It is pretty common to divide adults into the physical sort who don’t imagine much and others who are passive and do a lot of that sort of “brain” work.  But what about children.  It seems to me that often the child whose mind is always wondering is also the one who doesn’t want to sit still for any length of time.

OK, I’m too tired to be blogging.  Signing off.

One thought on “Reading Joel

  1. Bobber

    Thanks for pointing that out. Looks very interesting. Maybe this is the best way to approach discussing the most healthy diet qustion with young earth believers. This is something I think about off and on a lot. I haven’t even resolved all the issues myself even though I am comfortable with the old earth view. But it sounds like this book comes to some of the same positions as the paleo diet approach without referencing evolutionary theory or age of the earth/age of man issues.

    Very sorry we couldn’t make it to your Bday party. We left for vacation Saturday. Belated best wishes Mark, I appreciate your many talents and skills.

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