Santiago Ramón y Cajal is known as the founder of contemporary neuroscience. His pictures of what he observed in his light microscope slides are the inspiration for the use of the metaphor Butterflies of the Soul.
“As the entomologist chasing butterflies of bright colours, my attention was seeking in the garden of gray matter, those cells of delicate and elegant forms, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose fluttering winds would someday, who knows? Enlighten the secret of mental life”. (Santiago Ramón y)
The Greek synonym for mind is “psyche”, which is as well the name of a ...
