We might know the matter of which the mad brain consists but we understand nothing of its spirit, let alone its soul. We Still have neither comprehension nor insight ยด..... We are living in a time when everything dear to us - mind, experience, and culture - is being reduced to distantial data - that is, matter, behavior, and biology - as if we have become alienated from our selves. Each one to his own hobby or interest. But what is often forgotten is that if you reduce something - whether it be mind, love or madness, and whether the result is called matter, hormones or neurons - you first have to know what it is you are reducing. In other words, if madness - or love, or even God - is "located" on gene X or in brain area Y or on neuron bundle Z, what is it that is located there? What indeed is madness?
Wouter Kusters - A Philosophy of Madness - The experience of Psychotic Thinking
