To Me, Body And Mind Are Different

In 'self Comes To Mind' I Pay A Lot Of Attention To Simple Creatures Without Brains Or Minds, Because Those 'cartooned Abstractions Of Who We Are' Operate On Precisely The Same Principles That We Do.

Imagine, For Example, Birds. When They Look Out At The World, They Have A Sense That They Are Alive. If They Are In Pain, They Can Do Something About It. If They Have Hunger Or Thirst, They Can Satisfy That. It's This Basic Feeling That There Is Life Ticking Away Inside Of You.

There Are Things In Our Lives That Take Up An Enormous Importance And That Become Very Dominant Effects In Our Biography. And That Comes Out Of A Variety Of Reasons, But Fundamentally Comes Out Of How That Particular Experience Connects With Your Effective Systems Of Response.

If Something Produces An Undue Amount Of Pleasure Or Undue Amount Of Displeasure, It's Going To Be Judged Differently And It's Going To Be Introduced In Your Narrative With A Different Size, With A Different Development. So That Is The Next Element To Superimpose On The Sequencing Element. And In Fact, That Element Is So Powerful That Very Often It Can Trump The Sequencing Event, That The Sequencing Aspect.

We All Woke Up This Morning And We Had With It The Amazing Return Of Our Conscious Mind. We Recovered Minds With A Complete Sense Of Self And A Complete Sense Of Our Own Existence, Yet We Hardly Ever Pause To Consider This Wonder.