Pain Free Living by Pete Egoscue

Author:Pete Egoscue
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Sterling Ethos
Published: 2011-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

Never Mind

Have you lost your mind? Don’t bother looking under the chair. You never had one. The brain actually exists as corporel matter. A surgeon can open the skull of a living human and examine brain tissue. There is no mind, however. It’s been described—ludicrously, I believe—as an immaterial substance. A what? The mind is more usefully understood as a process of the brain for recording and organizing experience. The mind is, in effect, a faulty memory. Faulty because it leaks its contents—memories, lingering displacement patterns of energy waves associated with past events—into our consciousness instead of keeping them sealed away in the background.

The memory, as repository of non-extant stimulus, seems to be walled off from the present in other creatures; nonetheless, it informs and helps shape present actions. For instance, a hungry seagull learns that hanging out at the town dump is an easy way to get food, but the bird doesn’t consciously think about the connection, much less deliberately assign value. The stomach rumbles and wings flap to the nearest landfill. This scruffy gourmand learns to repeat a past action over and over again, but doesn’t reason. That last step—reasoning—happens only to creatures with leaky memories who have reasoned themselves into possession of a “mind” and spent the better part of a hundred thousand years developing that faculty by reliving the past and trying to control the future.

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