Post by jkeliar on Nov 18, 2017 4:49:08 GMT
A murder was committed inside a house people with four guards. Chesterton's text about the invisible postman describes how the murdered victim was alone in the house and the guards claimed that no one had entered or exited the house during that time. However, the postman, hiding in plain sight, had gone inside, killed the victim, then walked out the front door. None of the guards thought that the postman could be a suspect, so he wasn't noticed, thought of, or considered as a potential suspect.
Damasio is saying that in this case, the postman, was invisible (acting as the mind's physical presence) on the side of the body-proper when compared to the mind/brain side of that scale. Damasio's point, simply put, is that someone can get away with murder in by hiding in plain sight; by being there but not being noticed, such as how the mind is in some aspects to the aforementioned scale.
Damasio is saying that in this case, the postman, was invisible (acting as the mind's physical presence) on the side of the body-proper when compared to the mind/brain side of that scale. Damasio's point, simply put, is that someone can get away with murder in by hiding in plain sight; by being there but not being noticed, such as how the mind is in some aspects to the aforementioned scale.