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I is behind the brain, using the brain--nay further--actually educating and fitting the brain for its work. The brain of a little child with its plastic gray matter is smooth and unformed. It is the
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I behind that is steadily creasing and moulding and training it for its purpose. I don't know of anything more impressive than the study of the human brain in its activities, and how
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I am continually changing and modifying and educating my brain. You feel sometimes as if you could almost lay hands on that mysterious spiritual being that is behind it, like a spider in his web--feeling and interpreting every quiver of it, sending messages out into the world by means of it. But he always eludes you. You have no instrument that can touch him. You only know that he is there, enshrouded in mystery, a supernatural being not only using the brain but educating it for use. The brain itself has no knowledge or thought, and no power of itself to originate knowledge or thought. The brain of a baboon differs very little from the brain of a man. The difference is in the being who is behind it. I read lately the statement of a great scientist:
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As far as I can see, if the soul of a man could get behind the brain of an ape he could probably use it almost as well as his own.
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Nay, 'I' am not the brain. I possess it. I use it. It is mine, but it is not me!
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I. It is hardly necessary to ask the next question which some foolish people are speculating about to-day. Am I merely the TRAIN OF THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS? Am
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I
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I is constantly and persistently claiming to be a real conscious person behind all these--greater than all these--possessing all these. Listen to the voice down deep in your consciousness--COGITO, ERGO SUM.
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I think--therefore
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I