In a message dated 14/01/2013 23:39:15 GMT Standard Time,
skylark1970@MAIL.RU writes:
Since human brain resembles a walnut, this quote seems
relevant: the human brain can become the
best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in
millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.
(Ada, 1.3)
Alexey Sklyarenko
Even the clear-thinking VN could apparently become confused. This is not
the only occasion he wrote like this about "the brain". Did he realise that he
was writing metaphorically, and that no "human brain" has ever invented,
established, used or tortured anything or anybody, just as no pocket
calculator has ever calculated, no typewriter has ever written, and no
(non-human) computer has ever computed? Only people can do those
things.
Anthony Stadlen
"Oakleigh"
2A Alexandra Avenue
GB - London N22
7XE
Tel.: +44 (0) 20 8888 6857
For Existential Psychotherapy and
Inner Circle Seminars see: http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com