Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.
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The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.
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I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.
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Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.
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In the end, living is defined by dying.
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