[MD] MRI of a Poet's Brain

MarshaV marshalz at charter.net
Sat Nov 10 14:54:17 PST 2007


At 03:09 PM 11/10/2007, pholden at davtv.com wrote:
>Quoting MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>:
>
> >
> >  From ZEN-BRAIN REFLECTIONS by James H. Austin, M.D.
> >
> >
> >
> > MRI of a Poet's Brain  by  Vernon Rowe
> >
> > In this image of your brain
> > I see each curve in the corpus callsum,
> > Curlicues of gyri, folding of fissures, asiuous sulci,
> > mammillary bodies, arcuate fasciculus,
> > angular gyrus, tracts and nuclio...
> > but not even a single syllable
> > of one
> > tiny
> > poem.
>
>Hi Marsha,
>
>Ain't it the truth? Science can't be beat when it comes to means, but flunks
>meanings big time. Thanks for sharing a thought that makes one of science's
>shortcomings memorable. The other? No place for values.
>
>Best,
>Platt
>

Hi Platt,

Welcome back!

With the little I know, I find science endlessly fascinating, 
beautiful and possessing great value.  But I want to experience even 
beyond scientific analogies.

Marsha


   




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