The Minute You Succumb To

Remember That Politics, Colonialism, Imperialism And War Also Originate In The Human Brain.

There Is No Real Independent Self, Aloof From Other Human Beings, Inspecting The World, Inspecting Other People. You Are, In Fact, Connected Not Just Via Facebook And Internet, You're Actually Quite Literally Connected By Your Neurons.

What The Neurology Tells Us Is That The Self Consists Of Many Components, And The Notion Of One Unitary Self May Well Be An Illusion.

In Fact, On One Occasion, A Rather Pedantic Experimental Psychologist Was Telling Him About A Long, Complicated Experiment He Had Done, Incorporating All The Proper Controls And Using Considerable Technical Virtuosity. When He Saw Crick's Exasperated Expression He Said, "but Dr. Crick, We Have Got It Right - We Know It's Right," Crick's Response Was, "the Point Is Not Whether It's Right. The Point Is: Does It Even Matter Whether Its Right Or Wrong?"

Your Conscious Life Is An Elaborate After-the-fact Rationalization Of Things You Really Do For Other Reasons.