04w2:2 Posted January 15th, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 2 number 2 ——————————————————————— Making the Mind | Gary Marcus http://bostonreview.net/BR28.6/marcus.html “The brain, too, develops in the first instance from a simple sheet of cells that gradually curls up into a tube that sprouts bulges, which over time differentiate into ever more complex shapes. Yet 2,000 years of thinking of the mind as independent from the body kept people from appreciating the significance of this seemingly obvious point.” That crazy little thing called love | Andrew G. Marshall http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1105827,00.html “Psychologist Dorothy Tennov has already taken the first step towards this goal. She interviewed 500 people from different backgrounds and age groups, both gay and straight, about falling in love, and found a startling similarity in how each respondent described their feelings. […] To distinguish between these overwhelming emotions and the more stable, domestic feelings experienced by long-term couples who are only too aware of their partner’s failings, Tennov coined a new term: limerence.” —————————————- http://www.instantcoffee.org/tim/goodreads To remove yourself from this list, click and send tim@instantcoffee.org emailed by Timothy on Thursday 15 January 2004 @ 1:53 PM
