He s up to speed on the biblical and theological issues though his profession is education and church vocation music. I forget exactly what our focus was something about how our intelligence is not all contained in our brain. Not exactly a new idea. Our very cells have memory that carries on from the gene pool. The ancients talked about the feelings and emotions residing in the heart.
Religion introduces the elusive soul as another locale for feeling and wisdom.
Maybe the source of this conversation was with old men s talk about the various symptoms we were feeling at the moment. Our bodies were acting out their genetically determined roles with uncanny precision. We were applying our minds to attempt to fend off these attacks. It is apparent that our minds are only part of the intelligence system of our lives. The old right brain, left brain thing.