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A Meating of Mind
Jim CullenyIf my brain
does not tell my arm what to do
nothing much will happen.
Without a brain my arm is
not much smarter than
a leg of lamb.In fact, meat
without mind
is never going to get
much done while
mind without meat
wouldn't really have any point in
space timeBut when they mate
-when Mind and Meat meet,
when they kiss and make love,
things fecund soon become
and run the gamut from
dumb-and-dumber
right on up to the sublime:
from Rush Limbaugh to
Albert Einstein.
It's just how it is with
sentient being:
Mind needs Meat to do its work
and Meat needs Mind to
have an incentive to do anything.But Mind-meets-Meat
is a crap shoot
sometimes it's a match made in heaven
sometimes it's a hell of a thing
August 2008
Jim Culleny
March 23, 2007