Heart/Brain Dichotomy
Posted on October 14th, 2011 by Staks
Thinking with your brain is important, but some things only your heart knows. The only problem with this is that hearts don’t ‘know’ anything. The heart is a muscle that pumps blood.
Religious believers are always trying to separate human compassion from the brain and transfer that capacity onto the heart. I get that there is a certain metaphoric use of the heart as the center of emotion, but I think that some religious believers take that metaphor literally.
Our brain is the center of both our cognitive reasoning and our emotional feeling. As a matter of biology, we are our brains. This is why our brains are so tasty to zombies. 😉
Filed under: anti-intellectualism, Love, science, Soul
