Situatedness

Ian Gold and Suparna Choudhury
"Losing Our Heads"
Literary Review of Canada

Contemporary neuroscience is what the brain looks like through a keyhole. It is the science of the brain in isolation. The brain, however, is not isolated; it is situated. It lives in an environment-first and foremost, in a body, as well as in a physical, social and cultural milieu — and this environment matters to our understanding of what the brain does. A full description of brain function, therefore, will have to be an expansive one that includes neuroscience as well as a characterization of those features of the world — especially the social world — that matter most to the working brain.

http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2016/12/losing-our-heads/

And so for day 1814
01.12.2011