There's reconciliation among the experts who study the brain. On one side of the porch, The Hatfields: neuro-psychologists watching chemicals flash and spark in the synapses between cells in the brain. On the other side -- psychoanalyst McCoys, basing their careers on the premise that "physical science falls short" -- using conversation to peer beyond gray matter into the metaphorical folds and creases of the mind.
The emerging truce comes amidst a growing sense that the lab-coats ought to be talking with the docs whose patients lie on the couch rather than the operating table, getting us all closer to an understanding of consciousness, going beyond evolutionary instincts into the age-old mysteries of the mind: dreaming, memory, fantasy.
