| People perceive what is outside of them using their cognition, and use representations and thinking for what is inside them. If, on a certain day, there is a sudden change in their heads and the relationship between inner and outer falls apart, people think that the outside has changed, rather than themselves--or rather, their interior--and they experience visual and auditory hallucinations. Different psychiatric conditions involve a breakdown of the border between inner and outer, and they permit both to be perceived as blended. Therefore, unless the science of the spirit that honestly listens to subjective appeals is connected with the science of the brain and its stunning developments, we will not be able to perceive the human being. |
Biohistory Journal, Spring, 2003
