KINES 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Skimmed Milk, Eastern Religions, Equal Footing
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Definition of holism: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. ->reduction of a person to his or her components (e. g. , mind body, neurons, cells, genes) causes us to lose the person. Person is homogenize (analogy: homogenized milk is where the skim milk is combine with pure cream into a new substance; no pure cream and no pure skim milk-->a new thing; its inextricable, you cant separate them) We don"t know what pure mind might be like and we don"t know what pure body might be like. Genes are related to who we are and how we work. Treat whole, affect part treat the part, affect the whole. Thus, mind plus body closely related (this is still dualism, not homogenized yet) Body still serves mind --> even early holism still valued the mind over the body. Both body and mind are important -- plato. However, they affect each other independently--body on mind, mind on body.
