Mind it!

The mind is an amazing piece of work isn't it? It can churn out revolutionary concepts, life saving ideas, inventions beyond belief and at the same time such earth shattering, mind boggling crap that you start doubting the existence of intelligence!

Everything originates within the confinement of the 1.4kg of gray matter. What you sense, what you feel, how you behave, how you react, your judgement, everything! Its amazing if you really think about it. There are numerous books, researches and movies on the topic of the brain and how it works or how it can be made to work, manipulated at times. I think Matrix was the first movie which made me start wondering about the mind. The part where Morpheus explains Neo the concept of reality was enlightening! True, isn't it? What we see, hear, sense is after all just signals our brain intercepts and interprets. Then whats all the fuss about reality? If your brain can be fooled, then you are just a chassis.

Which leads us to the next question that, if its all in the brain, then what about the "I"? Am I just the brain or the rest of me matters? When I talk about myself, am I talking about my brain or is there something more to me than that. For a moment lets not talk about the soul, since "scientifically" speaking it is still not accepted that a soul exists. That leaves us pretty much with just a brain. So if a person falls in love with another person, he is basically falling in love with the brain? If you can learn to control your brain, it means you can learn to control yourself. But then how does the brain learn to control its own self? Control isn't natural right? Disorder is.

I told you! The mind can really come up with a lot of crap! :)