Overheard at a Medical Convention
A Japanese doctor says, "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we
can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and having him
looking for work in six weeks."
A Canadian doctor says, "That is nothing, we can take the lung out of
one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks."
A British doctor says, "In my country, medicine is so advanced that we
can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have
them both looking for work in two weeks."
The TEXAS doctor, not to be outdone, says, "You guys are way behind. We
took a man with no brain out of Texas, put him in the White House, and
now half the country is looking for work."
“There is no hope of finding the sources of free action in the lofty
realms of the mind or in the depths of the brain. The idealist approach
of the phenomenologists is as hopeless as the positive approach of the
naturalists. To discover the sources of free action it is necessary to
go outside the limits of the organism, not into the intimate sphere of
the mind, but into the objective forms of social life; it is necessary
to seek the sources of human consciousness and freedom in the social
history of humanity. To find the soul it is necessary to lose it".
A.R Luria
Nate
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