23 JUL 2026 by ideonexus

 Language of Verbs and Adverbs

...in physiological textbooks, we speak of the brain, or the nervous system, as 'governing' the heart or the digestive tract, smuggling bad politics into science, as if the heart belonged to the brain rather than the brain to the heart or the stomach. Yet it is as true, or false, to say that the brain 'feeds itself' through the stomach as that the stomach 'evolves' a brain at its upper entrance to get more food. As soon as one sees that separate things are fictitious, it becomes obvious that...
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