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Waning Crescent of the Winter Moon
Ordered a teaching company course on the brain. I hope this will jump start a dive into the small library of neuroscience books I’ve purchase over the last few years. The whole brain/mind debate fascinates me, as did the physiology of the brain, that is, just what is in the brain and what function does it have? Another question of deep interest to me is the gathering and processing of sensory data. How does it happen? What does it mean for our connection to the apparent world beyond our senses? (a philosophical question)
The most important question is that of the mind. Is it a function of the brain only? Or, does the mind arise as a thing sui generis? A small group of thinkers on this problem call themselves the Mysterians. They believe the problem can never be solved. Since the brain/mind question involves a human organ and the defining human quality investigating themselves, it may be an endless loop, a mobius strip of a problem with no clear beginning and no clear end.
Kate has long ago burnt out on the corporate medical context in which she practices. It’s attention to insurance codes and revenue capture. It’s attention to happy talk and consumer satisfaction. It’s routinization and cook-booking of medical practice. The speed-ups which demand 5-6 patients an hour with no distinction for the levels of complexity. The random and chaotic applications of accounting esoterics to physician compensation and benefits. And on and on.
She wants to retire. I look forward to her retirement, too.
