why are our rational brains so disconected from our instinctual brains? i mean, if i could just tell my body what to do, i would never get sick, i could build muscle without lifting weights, and go to sleep when ever i wanted. why cant we control ourselves?
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Uh huh. Go figure the exact sequence of muscle contractions and relaxations necessary to take two steps forward. (Whoops! Don’t forget to compensate for those steps by shifting your center of mass. Never mind, I see that you’ve already fallen down.)
When you’ve come up with that solution, I’ll answer your question.
“I don’t just want you to feel envy. I want you to suffer, I want you to bleed, I want you to die a little bit each day. And I want you to thank me for it.” – What “Let’s just be friends” really means
You say I’m blind, I say you’re hallucinating.
Actually, this is a very interesting question. If you can get a hold of The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas, I urge you to read the essay entitled “Autonomy”. His response:
“If I were informed tomorrow that I was in direct communication with my liver, and could now take over, I would become deeply depressed. I’d sooner be told, forty thousand feet over Denver, that the 747 jet in which I had a coach seat was now mine to operate as I pleased; at least I would have the hope of bailing out, if I could find a parachute and discover quickly how to open a door. Nothing would save me and my liver, if I were in charge. For I am, to face the facts squarely, considerably less intelligent than my liver. I am, moreover, constitutionally unable to make hepatic decisions, and I prefer not be obliged to, ever.”
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