A multifaceted reassessment of the human heart
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Studies of the Heart

 
Aristotle’s Heart-Centered Philosophy

The heart, viewed by Aristotle as a command centre, a central sensorium, perceives environmental changes surrounding the body, and accordingly moves to cause internal motions within the body to respond to those changes. Aristotle views the heart as the sense organ common to all peripheral sense organs and the master sense organ to which all sense organs lead.

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A Cardiocentric Political System

Heart-centered and brain-centered systems propose different concepts of power. The cardiocentric body politic presents authority as something other than control proffered from above, to which the subject is required to submit. Instead, the ruler is presented as a necessary center that nourishes and organizes the society’s very existence.

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The Link Between Cardiovascular and Cognitive Health

There is unequivocal evidence that cardiovascular health is both directly and indirectly linked to cognitive health. “The same lifestyle and environmental factors modulating cognitive function also modulate vascular function… The recommendations of neurobiologists to prevent cognitive decay by lifestyle and environmental intervention closely mirror those of cardiologists to prevent vascular disease progression.”

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ScienceSoroush Moghaddam