First steps
This strange COVID-19 era has opened up many possibilities for attending talks all over the country - even the world! I attended this fascinating talk last week: Towards a Holistic Humanities: Senses and Sensibilities of De-Westernisation The speakers were lecturers in film: William Brown and Mila Zuo. It was arranged by the University of Stirling and available to members of the Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities. Dr. Zuo's work looked extremely interesting on senses and the body - and how Western thinking prioritises sight over the other senses. Brown's talk resonated with my current reading. He referred to contemporary neuroscience and physics to suggest that our Western tendency to separate 'subjects' from 'objects' is flawed. He suggested that the experience of personhood is entangled with other persons (shown in the firing of "mirror neurons" in the brain). In fact, our perceptions of 'things in the world' are more deep...