Inside The Mind And Between Minds
The dynamics of language is binding one mind to another, enabling two persons to share awareness of the same ideas at the same time. This mind-to-mind exchange of ideas through language is how the human supermind thinks.
So here’s the secret to the self: the self is formed out of the physical interaction of the dynamics of language and the dynamics of consciousness. It is the dance of language, which operates between minds, and consciousness, which operates inside our mind, that produces our uniquely human experience of, “I am aware of being me!”
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The journey of the mind—so far—is the chronicle of purpose winning ever-more daunting battles with chaos. Minds defeat chaos by ascending to new stages of intelligence, autonomy, and awareness. Each new stage of thinking in the universe masters a broader scope of physical reality than the stage before. This makes it clear that human beings are not the ultimate destination of the journey of the mind at all.
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