Subject: RE: Crucial Questions on Life
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 07:45:27 -0600


"mind boggling dumb"?  whoee, alex.  We're getting personal here, aren't
we.  I realize I couldn't indicate in my short comment that my own
academic tongue was lodged too firmly in my cheek but it was.  I am one
of those academics (in an English dept, no less, the site of some of the
most privileged and useless discourse I can imagine) who gets paid for
reflecting on whether the glass is in here or out there.  Referring this
question back to Bourdieu's take on intellectuals and academia (one
wants to bring Wiggenstein into the question) seems to make the
discussion relevant to the list.

I didn't take the comment on world peace etc. to be any more
earth-shattering than was my own comment.  I thought the writer engaged
in the conversation with generosity and good humor.

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Irvin Peckham
Director of Firstyear Writing
Louisiana State University


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 when i first read Berk's mesage I was bemused, not       
 because mind/body/brain questions are frivolous but      
 because I didn't se their relevance, to Bourdieu.        
 However the liveliness of responses and the reactivation 
 of the list meant that even if irrelevant to Bourdieu it 
 invigorated   the list nevertheless. The comment on the  
 irrelevance of the question in general that saw the      
 mind/brain question as academic self induglence was mind 
 boggling dumb as was the  idea that if we really cared   
 about this then there might be world peace. You might    
 find attempts to delineate experience and phenomena, the 
 'real' and identity, selfindulgent but   multinationals  
 like Hoffman-LaRoche do not. Brain mapping   and         
 delineating (whether there is) a difference between      
 brain (organism) and mind (experience) is central to     
 pharmaceutical profits and psychiatry - prozac any one?  
 does serotonin=happiness? does unhappiness lead to a     
 serotonin drop or is it caused by it? the future of      
 cyberbrain modification etc is born also at the          
 philosophy/technology interface.                         
                                                          
 Alev                                                     
                                                          


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