The Fading Line Between Life And Death

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

What is death? Is it unavoidable? In the very first edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768), death was defined as "the separation of the soul and body." Today, Encyclopedia Britannica Online defines it as "the total cessation of life processes that eventually occurs in all living organisms." The entry goes on to ...

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The Mind Body Connection - What Is It Really?

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

A war has been silently raging on now for hundreds of years. Do you know the one I mean? Rene Descartes inadvertently started it, early in the Seventeenth Century, when he proclaimed that the body and mind are separate. Even today then, this war continues, as knighted warriors dressed in ...

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