Tincture November 1, 2019
Much of modern medicine feels like an exercise in molecular bookkeeping: our health reduced to counts of cholesterol, triglycerides, creatinine, glucose, sodium, potassium, hemoglobin and the like.
We are more than our molecules.
Reductionism has proved its value in biology and medicine. But it is not inherently more rigorous or useful than integrative approaches. Molecules possess no special magic and need not be our only focus.
Top-down approaches have just as much value as bottom-up. Behavior is a top-level phenomenon, and behavior across time is an even higher level, one that you could reasonably call “self” or “personality.”
Movement is a key component of behavior and thus self-hood. It requires integration of all bodily systems, from thought to coordinated neuronal...
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