I want to start 2013 by putting forward two provocative ideas. One is to challenge the conventional division between the brain and the rest of the body. The second is to promote the concept of ‘brainfulness’. Neither idea is entirely original. Both emerge from ways of thinking that have been around for some time. If you do a web search for ‘brain–body divide’ and brainfulness, you will find a large number of results, although if you follow them up, you will find they are rather insubstantial. I suggest that 2013 is the time to develop these two ideas further.
The brain–body divide is, self-evidently, an artificial one. No doctor needs to be reminded that the brain is contiguous with spinal cord and peripheral nervous system, which in turn are contiguous with our muscles. In embryological terms, our eyes, skin, and the lining of some of our gut are derived...
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