Victor Pelevin. The Essence of Human Mind.
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
‘But it’s my mind, isn’t it? Then what’s the problem?’
‘The problem is that your mind isn’t actually yours.’
‘Then whose is it?’
‘It’s not possible to say that it is anybody’s at all. Or what it’s like and where it is. All these concepts arise within it, that is, it precedes everything else without exception. Do you understand? Whatever you imagine, consider, believe or know for sure, the mind’s what will do it.’
‘Are you talking about the brain?’
‘No. The brain is one of concepts that exist in the mind.’
‘But the mind arises because there is a brain,’ he said uncertainly.
‘Those villains have really brainwashed you out of your wits,’ I sighed. ‘People have no idea what mind is. Instead they study the brain, or the psyche, or Freud’s love letters to Einstein. And scientists seriously believe that mind is the product of certain chemical and electrical processes in the brain. That’s the same as thinking that a TV set is the cause of the film showing on it. Or that a salary is the cause of human existence.’
‘That’s what economists do think.’
‘Right. Well, let them think it. Let them generate their electrical impulses, steal tranches of credit, make official protests, measure the amplitude and the velocity, give the blowjob and take the derivative coefficient, and then determine their rating. Fortunately for this world, we foxes are here in it, as well as all those clowns. We know the secret….’
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Posted on November 26th, 2009 under Literature, Quotes • Tags: "The Sacred Book of Werewolf", brain, existence, Love, mind, psyche, secret, Sigmund Freud, Victor Pelevin. •
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