Mind-body relations
"The human brain and the rest of the body constitute an indissociable organism, integrated by means of mutually interactive biochemical and neural regulatory circuits (including endocrine, immune, and autonomic neural components)...The organism interacts with the environment as an ensemble: the interaction is neither of the body alone nor of the brain alone...The physiological operation that we call mind is derived from the structural and functional ensemble rather than from the brain alone: mental phenomena can be fully understood only in the context of an organism’s interacting in an environment."
Antonio Damasio Descartes’ Error xvi - xvii
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