Things Always Look Complicated
to Those Who do not Understand

            Things always look more complicated to a person who doesn’t understand.  And people who don’t understand make things more complicated.

            No one has proven that the brain is the seat of consciousness.  You’d think with all the ‘research’ that there would be gobs of proof of this, but there simply is not.

            A bold assertion, you may think.  ‘Prove it,” I can hear the shrinks say.  To which I blithely reply, “No, you prove it.  Show me one study that deomonstrates conclusively that people think with their brains.  I dare you!  You’re the ones with the overcomplicated model of consciousness.  Justify it!  Prove it!  Or go back to the simple, self-evident explanations.

            And they can’t prove it, because it is a belief, a dogma.  Like any belief, it cannot be proved.  The fact that psychology preaches it and millions of people believe it proves nothing – any more than primitive peoples could prove that they got sick because of evil demons and equally primitve modern peple could prove that their particular brand of belief was true, as they murdered millions who believed otherwise.

            Look again at the definition I quoted above.  See how much simpler and clearer the 1926 definition was.  All this business about brains and neurones doesn’t belong in there.  Mind is as we experience it.  That is mind.  It is experience.  It is not neural activity.  That wishful thinking to give credibility to their pet theories.  They hope it’s true, or else they have to admit that they’ve totally missed the boat.