====================================================== The fairy tale of the "thinker" and its thoughts, a master and a slave ====================================================== "OUT THERE" and "IN HERE" The human species adapted to a "thinker" and "knower" inner universe, so to speak, as the living universe "out there" is translated into a mental *mini-universe* in an "in here" illusory world of things and ideas in the tiny corner of the head, The development of the human species into the modern age is complex. Eons of slow evolution by natural selection and also by human thinking bypassing natural selection. The capability to think takes the human brain beyond the 5 sense organs territory into a world of imagination and imagemaking that radically transform natural environments. Things refer to what is material and ideas refer to what is imagined. Things and ideas being seemingly separate, naming and names
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Click here also to open links from Word Press: Where To: Excerpts from: https://sites.google.com/view/whereto1/home A layman's one-time blog, article, essay, whatever Where to? "In this tiny planet lives tiny beings with tiny brains producing experiences in a tiny corner of the head. The emperor is all clothes and all about skin in the age of packaging and marketing. A reflection on what we have become. No apologies to those who know they do not know. Words are freely used here. They will come and go, whether in seeming clarity or contradictions. It's here and not here so it is not because the mind is clear, but rather one never knows when the mind is clear. Saying the mind is clear would be like asking if the sky is clear. But the sky is the sky. One can not grab it, only the things moving around. So can there also be clarity in a mind emptying itself of its contents? One has to find out for