philosophy wall HWW!

Indeed a philosophic wall... Let me write some philosophy like quote from a book! Can I?

From the early Greeks through Galen’s period of influence, a period of seventeen centuries of human thought, thinking about the nature of human existence found us wallowing in high-powered confusion. Most of the talk was about souls, not minds -- and certainly not consciousness. Plato and Socrates argued for a tripartite immortal soul, partly rational, partly spiritual, and partly appetitive. Aristotle also reasoned we had souls, but he said they were not immortal. The early students of the brain, and of anatomy in general, went back to saying that they were immortal but that there was no difference between the mental and the physical. Ideas die hard, even in the light of an emerging science. As we shall see, these primitive ideas are still in play today. ~ Page 20 {Excerpt: 'The Consciousness Instinct' Author : Michel Gazzaniga