Cognition is physiological
I am reading What It’s Like to Be a Bat by Thomas Nagel, in which he explores the difficulty of describing what it is like to be a bat.
While reading, I keep returning to a strong conviction of mine: that cognition is physiological. Without being the bat—eating what it eats, operating within its hormones and circulatory system—it seems impossible to grasp its experience of the world merely in terms of perception (echolocation, and so on).
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This also reminds me of the emphasis on eating that I've read in Ram Dass's Be Here Now. I should look into this more closely, as I am increasingly convinced that what we eat shapes our mood and behavior.
