The Rational Mind

Thought is a machine for projecting problems and solutions onto the world. We then become fixated upon them: ‘if you’re not part of the solution then you must be part of the problem’, we say. Yet there are no ‘problems’ or ‘solutions’ in the world, despite our conviction to the…

Thought is like a kind of ‘extraneous module’ (or ‘optional add-on’) that interprets all the incoming information for us in a very particular way; we can picture it as a kind of ‘implanted microchip’ or ‘information-processing box’ that everything gets routed through. It mediates between us and the real world…