brain-soul

Updated: May 19, 2025

There is the idea of a brain-soul, of a spot where the soul lives or where the brain thinks which we have not quite abandoned since Descartes named the pineal gland as the seat of the soul. Then there is the false idea that all causality is mechanistic and that there is nothing in the universe which is not mathematically calculable. There is the confusion of representations and of things.

John Alexander Gunn - Bergson and His Philosophy