{"id":2968,"date":"2023-06-18T14:42:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T18:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/psychoanalyst-allen-wheelis-on-the-substance-of-what-we-are-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-06-18T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T18:42:37","slug":"psychoanalyst-allen-wheelis-on-the-substance-of-what-we-are-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/psychoanalyst-allen-wheelis-on-the-substance-of-what-we-are-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Substance of What We Are \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We live as cells winged with sentience, filaments with feeling \u2014 creatures tasked with comprehending the ceaseless dialogue between our materiality and our spirituality, tasked with living it. \u201cBlessed be you, mighty matter,\u201d the French theologian and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote as he set out to reconcile the two<\/a>. A generation after him, the poetic physicist Richard Feynman marveled at our inheritance as \u201catoms with consciousness\u2026 matter with curiosity.\u201d<\/a> In the age of AI \u2014 this precarious prosthesis of our consciousness<\/a> \u2014 the question of what makes us human, a question of matter and spirit, rattles us with ever more disquieting urgency.<\/p>\n

The psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis<\/strong> (October 23, 1915\u2013June 14, 2007) brings an uncommonly lyrical perspective to this eternal perplexity in his 1975 book On Not Knowing How to Live<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

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