Saturday, 3 December 2011

A Person Species



We're a Person species - and, as persons, we're made of visions, views, stories, aspirations, aims, plans, guilt, euforia, embarassment, hangover (no, sorry - that's physical, actually), moral hangover (that's more like it) and a few more such like.

It is fascinating to investigate the interface that links a person with a person's body (with an occasional exception - the same person's body, to be precise), but you can no better understand yourself through your body than an inspiring vision through the electromagnetic radiation involved, or a mysterious story through the funny little black shapes in it.

So when you want to know the important stuff about people, don't go to a neurologist, evolutionist, materialist or an analytical philosopher - they deal with technical details and other trivia. Go to a visionary, a storyteller - or just another person.

PS Cheers, Freddie, love! You're a star. (I'm just a gentleman and a scholar*)

* ;) - just for your entertainment, at my expense. In fact, I'm an ultra-modest ultramontanist (I'll blog a little about it soon).