The brain is secure in the knowledge that knowledge is inadequate and potentially misleading
Doesnât each individual brain acquire its own peculiar sense of security? Based on its conditioning?
Yes, but itâs a false sense of security.
The only security the brain can have is knowing that the intellect is only as good as its foundation, and since its foundation is fluid, there is no security.
Security is knowing why there is no security
What does âsecurityâ mean for the brain? Staying alive? Thatâs physical. What is psychological security? To not be âhurtâ, offended, ridiculed, demeaned, etc?
Those seem more a concern of the âself imageâ rather than the organ itself.
Depends on the brain. Most brains believe in belief, faith, etc. Skeptical brains acknowledge the power of belief because they have their beliefs, how ever reluctantly acknowledged.
But to answer your question, âsecurityâ for the brain means, whatever quells its anxiety by restoring or replacing its beliefs.
Isnât it that once there is the appearance of a self image things take on a psychological importance rather than just physical survivalâŚas in the animals. Then the self image structure determines the desired security?
Weâre more concerned about social survival than physical survival.
Then the self image structure determines the desired security?
Everyone seeks their version of security, whether it means joining a group, following a leader, or living like a recluse. We learn how to survive socially, if not thrive.
Yes and the danger as we see it play out around us is as these disparate self images come into contact with one another, there can be violence, not just in the moment but prolonged. If an animal âsteps on anotherâs toeâ there can be snarling and then itâs over. With the human self image plus memory the âsnarlingâ can go on for a lifetime!
Doesnât becoming âattachedâ to people, places or things undermine the possibility of real security since all can be lost? And the âneedâ to be attached follows from the presence of this self image which has divided itself off and isolated itself as an âindividualâ?
I think it was Patricia who said the self seeks a permanent state of happinessâŚwhen it doesnât ever come to pass, it becomes discontented. And rather than seeing that discontentment as K puts it, as a âjewelâ , the flame of which needs to âburnâ, it moves away from it. And looks for more and more âsecureâ ways to be âhappy.
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If your head isnât bitten off before you know itâŚ
With the human self image plus memory the âsnarlingâ can go on for a lifetime!
Itâs what we live for, innit? Right/wrong, true/false, good/bad, mine/yours, etc.
Human society is taking sides in Word War until/if one is beyond words.