even today they do , though today it may be more of a figue of speech .
2006-11-29 01:56:03 · 7 answers · asked by jsjmlj 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
oops , figure .
2006-11-29 01:57:07 · update #1
When speaking of feelings (and we all know now they come from the brain function) we say "from the heart" it is just something, I don't know how it came to be, or why we continue to say "from the heart' when expressing feelings.
2006-11-29 02:00:03 · answer #1 · answered by newcovenant0 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, first of all, I've heard a story about a boy with no brain. That boy has a brain of a very small size, I'm not sure how big, it's nowhere near the normal brain's weight. What's in his skull is mostly fluid. However, this boy is an honour student in Mathematics in a university. Also the boy can be considered as normal, like other people with normal size of brain, even though scientists will expect that this boy should not have normal bodily functions,and certainly not the intelligence capable of being an honour student in Mathematics. Anyway, I also heard that abnormal cases such as this are regarded as anomalies in medical world, so it's not published in journals. I think the name of the professor who did the research on the boy was John Lorber. The point is, even though the boy technically has no brain, all his functionings were normal.
So probably people from the past were not exactly wrong to give credit to the heart instead of to the brain... but I'm pretty sure that what they refer to as heart is not the organ heart, but the other heart(I think what they refer to heart is actually the mind). Well, that's just my own pondering for the answer to the question.
2006-11-29 10:31:38 · answer #2 · answered by mahasaropama 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By "heart", it is often meant "core", like "at the heart of the issue". The bodily organ is not in view.
This usuage has nothing to do with physiological ignorance, it is just a way of speaking about what is at the core of a person's being.
Similarly, one's "mind" and "brain" are not the same thing. The brain is an organ that may perform much of the mind's function but the terms are not synonymous.
2006-11-29 10:25:44 · answer #3 · answered by 5solas 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Today, it's just a figure of speech.
My religion (Catholicism) has always been silent on issues such as brain functions and heart functions. That's because these things are questions for science, not for theology.
In the past, science -- yes, science -- often got things wrong.
Actually, they still do.
For instance, I just read an article saying that -- contrary to popular and centuries-old "wisdom" -- sitting up straight is not necessarily good for you.
This was a mistake on the part of science -- and on the part of moms and dads of slumped-over kids everywhere. Not religion.
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2006-11-29 10:00:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ancient Greeks thought emotion was in your liver - I love you with all my liver?
When the Bible says "Love God with all your heart ..." it is the figure of speech meaning - entire being. The heart, in this instance, is a symbol of the central core of your being in which emotion and devotion reside.
2006-11-29 10:10:30 · answer #5 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't know jack aboiut how the body works
2006-11-29 10:00:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
physiological ignorance. before they thought it was the heart, they thought it was the bowels. could you imagine telling your girlfriend "baby, you move me!"
2006-11-29 10:01:48 · answer #7 · answered by alex l 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋