Two Minds

i have this part of my mind, it's right, but it's so fucking impractical - it doesn't work with my reward system, dopamine, or whatever. it just sits there and tells me the truth, as if i need to know about it.

and it's at odds with the other part, that is basically an animal (and when i say animal i mean like a cat or a mouse, not a great ape, which is almost the same as a human)

this is what happens when an evolved brain. you get the animal brain, then nature spends 10 million years tacking on one more layer. instead of revamping the whole system for one cohesive function, it just tacked on a layer.

i think i'll need one project to keep one part of the brain happy, and another part to keep the other happy.

now that i think about it, this is probably what freud was talking about (id and super-ego), but he jumped to way too many conclusions to be generally credible.

religion teaches that our life energy will be preserved in some way, and this makes the super-ego and the id relatively happy - as they are both interested in keeping us going.

but really the only way to preserve our life energy... would be to do it ourselves. no invisible super-powerful being is going to do it for us.