mindfulness

In her book, "Are you an illusion?" Mary Midgley supports holism She argues that the thoughts we have, the longing and the choices we make are important - it's i not only signals in the brain. Perhaps obvious, but not if you are a 100% reductionist... We also have some freedom, I can lift my arm when I decide to do so... So our will  seems to influence the brain and the muscles in the arm - we are not totally ruled by the genes, as Dawkins seems to mean. A Buddhist would say that the  brain and the mind is interrelated. Without the brain there would be no mind. But without the mind - no brain. Or; the brain has been developed to construct mind - without the mind the brain would have no function and would therefore be smaller and smaller  like our smallest toes are... - because of that we now seldom climb trees, There must for sure be a self in each men, she argues. and mocks the philosophers  that  claims that the self just is an illusion, though a necessar