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Submitted by cheffernan on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 11:09pm.

As I go through and read a lot of people's posts and think about what we have been discussing in class, I can't help but think about what we started off class with. We started off determining wheter Descartes or Emily Dickinson was right in their notions of the mind. We agreed on what Dickinson said:

"The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will contain
With ease - and You - beside-..."

-Dickinson

In our journey to discover what is "less wrong", I believe this return to where we started only validates our initial claim and allows us to continue on by continually checking our foundation. Based on the Dickinson poem, what does "The Brain" refer to in our nervous system? Does Dickinson mean the I-function? 

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