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It’s not just one and done—you get resuscitated when you don’t want it. You also can get shunted from one place to the next to the next by uncaring or unthinking “systems” of people. Marketing and overworked staff, people with their own agendas—all contribute. Sometimes nobody will sit down and think about the thinking.

:- Doug.

Perhaps neurons are not where memory is stored. Maybe it is stored in the synapses, the in betweens. Only when they send chemical signals across do we have memory. And so the neurons are there to be the receptors of the memories. It is the synapses that do the talking and the work.

:- Doug.

Cartoons show angels and devils on our shoulders, whispering in our ears. Sufis speak of the community of voices we have within. Movies picture parents and strangers echoing down our minds. Could there be truth in these images? That our brains store up all these things and play them back to us as self talk? Memories that are triggered by some association or for no apparent reason talk to us. We therefore would have thousands of voices in our heads by the time we are a few years old. How are we to separate out what is our thinking and what is an echo in the storage barrel?

:- Doug.

Winds blow. Leaves open green. Someone is angry out of proportion to the provocation. What might these signify? What can we understand beneath the understanding?

:- Doug.

Come be human with us: reflect; generate.

:- Doug.