Re: Define mental illness?

Nik Taylor wrote:

> > it's a ridiculous thing to attach personal importance to
> > as it has nothing to do with one's actual person, but rather with one's
> > physiology.
This argument proves too much.  Unless you are a dualist, everything
in the personality has a physiological correlate, though not necessarily
the same correlate from person to person.  When Einstein devised the
theory of relativity, that was a physiological event: should he have
attached no personal importance to it?

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)