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— The Naturalization of Heaven —
Life should be euphoric, like spring fever,
As in those rare moments of ecstasy
When one is in the zone and cannot miss;
So—let some aversive substrates be removed!
— The New Norm —
Some people are just a little bit crazy,
With a mild mental illness, some genes awry;
We call them inept, heartless, offbeat,
Even persistent, though interesting.
— Inherent Properties? —
Why should the wetness of water result
From the mix of hydrogen/oxygen?
How can cells, blood, heart, and nerves make life?
It is just so. So does matter make mind.
— Mind = Brain? —
Change the brain and consciousness changes too.
Take drugs and the emotions change as well.
Damage the brain and the mind’s damaged too.
Consciousness emerges only from the brain?
— Identity Crisis? —
The brain could be the mind, and vice-versa,
So there is no need for the mind to turn
The brain’s water into wine, if there’s
No wine that’s separate from the water.
— The Looking Glass —
Is consciousness emergent from the brain,
Somehow, a fundamental phenomenon?
Could it be the brain perceiving itself,
Something we might like to call the mind’s ‘I’?
— The Ultimate Basic —
Consciousness may be fundamental,
Like mass, space, and time, and would require
No explanation—just arising:
Mind: it matters; matter: ever mind?
— Inside and Outside —
Pain’s not the same as the nerves that cause it,
Yet, mind, apart, couldn’t conserve energy.
Perhaps, our “info” exists in two ways:
Consciously and neurologically.
— What’s Left? —
In identifying consciousness,
We often confuse what is floating in
The stream of consciousness with the water itself;
Thus, we note not the sea in which we “see”.