If the human mind is truly an unstoppable thought-machine, what good is it anyway?

What’s up with athletes?  When a team runs into the field, they do it together as a group.  Before they take the field, there’s a huddle.  And when they win, there are hugs, fist-bumps, weird-circle-dances, and flying body-bumps which would terribly injure any normal-sized human.

Feeling uncomfortable physical feelings and thinking uncomfortable thoughts?! Sounds like great therapeutic advice! Where do I sign up?!

Will you have enough money for retirement?  How long will your loved ones live? Will it rain on the day you planned your vacation?  Will your next project be a failure?

Did you chose the right career?  What if you had gone to a different university?  Should you have made that investment?  Are you really married to the right person?

In this blog, we have been suggesting that humans have brains which constantly think and churn out thoughts.

If you can notice your thoughts, evaluate them, and even chose which ones to focus on, it would imply that you must not be them.  Basically, your face cannot see itself (without using those confounded “mirror” things).

So you may be wondering then, what role do you play?  Where are you in all this?  If Descartes was wrong, and you are not your thoughts, then what are you?

What is it like when you cannot find an item that you need, your child whines, or you see someone toss an entire meal’s worth of McDonald’s wrappers and soda bottles out their window? Frustrating, annoying, and disgusting? Our brain automatically sends us messages in response to what we see, hear, or experience around us. What we do next defines how we live our lives. No one will remember what you were thinking, only how you behaved.