The mind as distinction mechanism

The mind has power, at least equal to our will. Our will forces us -sometimes against all ratio- towards our desires, no matter the cost. But our mind forces us -sometimes against all feelings and will- to decide different, no matter the cost.

When our mind receives information, it perceives it as a piece of a puzzle. The only question is: how does it fit with all other pieces of information we have? If it fits, we are at rest. If it doesn’t, we are not. When information doesn’t fit, our mind doesn’t offer peace. Our will might; I don’t care, or, this is not the right time to think about it. So we buy rest. But we don’t own it.

The mind cannot allow conflicting ideas to exist. There must be something that connects it all toghether.

Our mind doesn’t offer peace, because it demands that pieces of information ‘fit in’ to each other. Our mind doesn’t offer peace, because we don’t have all the knowledge, ever. Our mind doesn’t offer peace, because life offers riddles we simply cannot solve, or at least, have not solved yet.

Our mind cannot offer peace, it can only be at peace.

So with a mind, that according to it’s own nature hardly ever leaves us at peace, what to do? Try to gather all knowledge? Make it all fit in? Or accept that we never know everything there is? Or reject the mind? Embrace the idea that our thoughts are not me, thus separating me from the restlessness of the mind?

What role has our mind? Is it to separate true from false? Fact from idea? Sense from non-sense? Or is a distraction for a good life? Or a tool for a good life?

While reading these brief thoughts, our mind is already at work. It is trying to fit everything we read, evaluating every piece, as we read it. And then we know the answer! This is how the puzzle of information of these words fit in reality.

From our axioms (invisble, unproven points of view we most dearly embrace), we do what our mind does best: unfolding our answer, which we probably already believed in. In which case pour the piece into our puzzle.

This explains why the mind is just a tool; it has no begin or end. It just works when information enter our mind. It is not an objective tool either. Because we decide how to use it. Objective. Manipulative. Reasoning forwards, backwards, whatever we decide.

In the decision how to use the mind is where we meet other people. We don’t meet their mind, but we meet their decision how to use it. Likeminded people can mean they have the same ideas, but they probably find each other in their approach, their vision, their decisions. Similarity of ideas are just the result.

So what is our mind? Our mind is simply a tool, a distinction mechanism. Or not, in which case you have probably found an unfitting distinction.