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"Something beyond yourself that is a part of you"?
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"'Her cerebral cortex was gone,' Wolfson said....'Is hope maybe the
ability of human beings to have something beyond yourself that is a
part of you?' Wolfson called this ability the divine spark."
Hope is a phenomenon of the cerebral cortex.
What does it mean to "have something beyond yourself that is a part of you?" My family, country, even my office are "beyond me" and yet "part of me", but I don't think he was referring to larger social groups or ideas. He seems to be referring to something that we normally associate with the cerebral cortex (personality, integration of thought and emotion, self-awareness) somehow existing "beyond" the cerebral cortex. How would it do that? Note: "divine spark" is a name, not an explanation.
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