All personal experience of the world is subjective, having entered through the portals of sense, dream or memory. No experience is possible, be it pain or pleasure, ecstasy or despair, but that which is experienced in the brain.
, or ‘operating system’. In this state, the brain’s mind started to think, using its neural arsenal and newly acquired language and conceptual skills. True sapience emerged.
Control of autonomic life operations were denied direct access to the conscious brain by a selected genetic block, or ‘guardian’, for self-preservation. These are functions of vital importance for the organism’s survival, the responsibility for which the brain’s conscious agency, apparently, Nature could not trust.
Humanity’s interactions with each other are entirely based on customary convention, conditioning, appearance and behaviour of the ‘vessels’ interacting via their respective interpreters, i.e. brains. An individual’s brain utters words, performs actions and is responsible for social behaviour, all of which represents the ‘clothing’ of the mind, and the healthy condition of the mind is revealed by the quality of the subject’s behavior and speech.
by a similar neural mechanism that causes the manifestation and experience of dream shapes, visions and imaginings. This mechanism is related to, and draws on, memory. It accounts for the confusion often caused by misinterpreting the ‘outer’ world from an ‘inner‘ world. Soul, essence, psyche, atman and all such names for a quasi transcendental entity within, are by definition imagined and thereby false. Only the living brain is credible.Philosophy’s dictum, ‘I am not this body it is an instrument for my use’ .Yes! But it would require a specific condition to achieve this, viz. complete stillness and mental inactivity, such as may be obtained by meditation. This would produce a state of Pure Being: a conscious state of rest and serenity. Unqualified ‘Is-ness’.
A procedure that the brain can adopt to create a peaceful condition or avoid a dark state is the following:
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