So, I’m watching a news show the other night, and hear the moderator of the expert panel, say, with laudable passion, “I make no apologies for thinking with my heart”. She then went on to ask, in so many words, whether anyone had a problem with that. The statement and the question were in response to the rather baldly stated averment of a, no doubt eminent, panelist, who was trying to point to the emotional basis for an earlier exchange on Governance. Nobody, including the panelists, had a problem with thinking with the heart.
Except me, non-panelist that I am. I have a problem with that.
The heart, classically known as the Home of the Noble Humors, is not, as far as I can tell a particularly good thinking organ. For one thing there is altogether too much Nobility and the ancillary (nobility always has ancillaries) humors sloshing around, impeding Governance. Which, it can be argued, requires a fair degree of balance in the competing forces extant. Humors, qua humor, and the energies they generate are the motive force for the connections that need to be made in the brain that allow for the actions necessary to sustain, protect, and Govern. For that to happen we seem to need the corpus callosum, which the heart does not have
. For those that might not remember, the corpus callosum is a mass of tissue in the form of a large X that connects the two lobes that comprise the brain. I’m told that its main function is to “facilitate”, [n.b. I’m quoting, not ironically emphasizing], the transfer of energies from one section of the brain to the other; a freeway interchange, if you will. I’m also told, by those who should know, or at the least be able to make intensively educated guesses, that our symmetrical bi-pedal Life is controlled by the opposing lobe. Which implies an interchange of some sort where gland generated energies mix, merge, and otherwise align into conscious thought and coherent communication. Which, as far as I can tell, is at the core of Governance.
Except me, non-panelist that I am. I have a problem with that.
The heart, classically known as the Home of the Noble Humors, is not, as far as I can tell a particularly good thinking organ. For one thing there is altogether too much Nobility and the ancillary (nobility always has ancillaries) humors sloshing around, impeding Governance. Which, it can be argued, requires a fair degree of balance in the competing forces extant. Humors, qua humor, and the energies they generate are the motive force for the connections that need to be made in the brain that allow for the actions necessary to sustain, protect, and Govern. For that to happen we seem to need the corpus callosum, which the heart does not have
. For those that might not remember, the corpus callosum is a mass of tissue in the form of a large X that connects the two lobes that comprise the brain. I’m told that its main function is to “facilitate”, [n.b. I’m quoting, not ironically emphasizing], the transfer of energies from one section of the brain to the other; a freeway interchange, if you will. I’m also told, by those who should know, or at the least be able to make intensively educated guesses, that our symmetrical bi-pedal Life is controlled by the opposing lobe. Which implies an interchange of some sort where gland generated energies mix, merge, and otherwise align into conscious thought and coherent communication. Which, as far as I can tell, is at the core of Governance.
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