You, yes you! What is you (and its inward directed converse,
the “I”)? You is not the body, not the legs, not the DNA, not the blood cells,
not the immune system. You is a product of a limited part of a body, you is
associated with. You is the product of brain, a subset of brain produces you,
you the awareness. You are not aware of much that goes on in your body. You are
not aware of the process, the mental process, through which you is produced,
comes into existence. You is not aware of the process that takes place inside
eye, as photons hits retinal cells, the generation of nerve impulse, which is
encoded information, its processing and progression inside visual centers of
brain. We only become aware of the final processed image, or rather series of
images.
You is a product of certain configuration of matter, the
brain. Amazing isn’t it that matter thinks about itself, about other matter;
contemplating the why’s and how’s of this universe where it, the configuration that
can think, finds itself. And then there are the neuroscientists, who want to
know how their minds are produced by the underlying brain matter. Matter
desirous of knowing its own why’s, its own reasons, its own working, not aware
of solutions to those questions itself. Mind doesn’t know how it is itself
produced, projected, how it works, what is its connection with the brain? How
amazing, it thinks? You is a child, playing with toys, brain being one. Then
going even deeper, thinking about the particles making the brain, and deeper
and wider and narrower. The collective mind branching, its roots trying to
conquer, to penetrate, farther and deeper. Strange creature this aspect of
matter is, the mind!
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