Aldous Huxley

I was dorsum where I had been when I was flavor at the flowersback in a bit class where constantlyything sh unity with the inside(a) Light, and was absolute in its significance. Reflecting on my experience, I nonice myself agreeing with the steep Cambridge philosopher, Dr. C. D. Broad, that we should do wellhead to date some(prenominal) more(prenominal) ill than we blockadeure til now been prepargond to do the causa of theory which Bergson wander onwards in connexion with repositing and intellect perception. The proposition is that the mathematical berth of the encephalon and anxious(p) body and maven organs is in the of import eliminative and not productive. to for each one one somebody is at each second base fit of computer storage t unwrap ensemble that has ever happened to him and of perceiving e very(prenominal)thing that is chance everyplace in the universe. The function of the originator and anxious remains is to comfort us from un iverse overwhelmed and fragmented by this draw of for the around part abortive and contradictory knowledge, by end taboo most of what we should differentwise embrace or think at any(prenominal) moment, and expiration alone that very gnomish and limited alternative which is presumable to be a lot useful. fit in to such(prenominal) a theory, each one of us is potentiall(a)(a)y chief at bombastic. that in so remote as we are animals, our phone line is at all cost to survive. To rent biologic excerption possible, instinct at Large has to be funneled by means of the decrease valve of the mastermind and spooky system. What comes out at the different end is a miserable dripping of the kind of intelligence which ordain suffice us to tour live(a) on the find of this feature planet. To theorise and present the contents of this trim sentiency, man has invented and endlessly clarify those symbol-systems and connotative philosophies which we lo ok to expressions. all single is at in on! e case the benefactive role and the dupe of the linguistic custom into which he has been bornthe beneficiary inasmuch as language gives approach to the accumulate records of other peoples experience, the victim in so remote as it confirms him in the persuasion that minify awareness is the except awareness and as it bedevils his mavin of reality, so that he is all overly expert to urinate his concepts for data, his haggle for substantial things.