The "Nature" of Desire

The "Nature" of Desire

"Our lives are just one moment

a breath imagined by the senses,

And that moment is a great thought

And that thought is a desire,

The urge to being and to be love.

All at once all together, the same"

-Duane Michals

Independent Senior Research Project

in Neural and Behavioral Sciences

By Rachel Berman

Advisor: Dr. Paul Grobstein, Bryn Mawr College, 2001

"I have always felt that a well-developed intellect must embrace both an artistic sense and an understanding of scientific reasoning - and it follows that, fully developed, these sensibilities will, of themselves, ultimately demand their unification"

Evan Harris Walker, from The Physics of Consciousness

Introduction Part1 Part2 Part3 Part4 Part5 Part6 Acknowledgements