The mind: one of my favorite topics of discussion and a focal point to many of my discussions (could be my psychology degree speaking). One of, if not the, greatest tool in our arsenal as human beings. It has a massive impact in defining us as individuals within our own species; it makes us interesting or dis-interesting to every other individual on this planet and while we search the skies and the oceans for untold mysteries waiting to be solved, our minds have yet to be fully understood; sometimes I wonder, how can we begin to look outside of ourselves when we haven't even captured the potential of our own powerhouse?
I wouldn't even know where to begin in testing the wealth of potential I believe our minds have yet to unveil to us, but the fascination with everything "other" than ourselves is something that I have been puzzled over for several years now and something I'd like to explore in greater detail. The mind is, for a lack of better words, "mind-blowing" in a strange subconscious to conscious comparison. Freud may not have been right about many things, but his ideas on the unconscious, subconscious, and conscious mind are brilliant observations in their own right. Imagine, your mind is capable of storing an infinite amount of information unconsciously and subconsciously, able to protect the conscious you by burying traumatic experience within the analogical "subconscious vault", and run every system (cells replicating, killing viruses, building muscle, losing fat, putting you to sleep, secreting hormones, adjusting pupil dilation, regulating heat within a few degrees, lowering and heightening energy expenditure, attenuating to sound, moving body parts, calcifying bone, digesting, regulating pH, among thousands of other activities) your body demands of it every nanosecond of every second of every minute of every hour of every day... flawlessly, while also supplying your conscious mind with enough power to solve relatively complex daily tasks and problems, and never compromising the conscious mind of its throne over both the subconscious and unconscious mind with a relative use of 10% of the brain at one time (strong 'sentence'). What an incredible, emotionally stirring, awe inspiring thing of godly beauty we each carry within us. It seems a discredit for us to not worship, respect ourselves every day, because from a psycho-microbiological perspective, we are amazing beyond our own knowledge. Even as I write this, I can only speculate in the darkness of our future physio-psychological growth.
I have more to write on the subject - actually, a large amount, but my own mind sweeps me to another thought best left in a separate post, so I'm giving it what it wants and moving on for the time being.
Listening to: Gorillaz, "Cloud of Unknowing"
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