zen mind, physical mind

I’m reading Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate, my favorite quote so far – “thinking is a physical process”.  But, you ask, “Who’s doing the thinking?”.

When you pick up a book from a table, what’s picking up the book?  The answer is a combination of muscles, ligaments, and tendons, along with nerve impulses, all working in conjunction with one another giving you that certain physical ability.  Thus it is with your mind, various areas in the brain work in conjunction with environmental stimuli giving you the ability to think.  There is no “who” there, just an organic procedure based on a genetic architecture developed over eons of evolution.  Such is the miracle of life.  Who could ask for anything more?

I have to get back to work.