Br5 MORAL MIND
Whatever we do, it is done in obedience to a brain instruction. Our action may be influenced by strong emotion - of love, hate, concern or recklessness, or by an impulsion to get our own back, by relentlessly IMMORAL BEHAVIOUR, against a society which claims to be caring but takes no care of us.
When we consider the awful violence in the human world we should remember this - that human behaviour depends upon the human state of mind. And the human state of mind depends upon (a) the level of intellectual truth with which the individual utterly identifies, and (b) the moral state of the society by which the individual is engulfed. It is possible for the individual who identifies with a high level of truth to resist whatever an immoral society throws at him. An individual who identifies with a low level of truth is likely to succumb to the very amoral society which brought him to this state, and to act, in some degree, immorally.
The next thing to consider is the actual formation of the human mind. I believe it to be separated, one way or another, into two parts - the conscious, which animals also possess though ours is much the most efficient - and the postconscious, which, on Earth, is uniquely human. My ground for this belief is my self's conscious awareness of the existence of the postconscious, and my taking part in absolute correlation under its guidance - a process of pure thought, with truth as its object, which is so much deeper than normal conscious thought that it has had to be given a new name - intellation.
This brings us to a matter of the very first importance. The human individual who identifies with the highest postconscious level of truth, i.e. who is supraconscious, once having attained that level cannot go back, because at that level the strength of postconscious will far exceeds the contrary influence of conscious will. Clearly, our childhood should be spent in attaining that level. It should be this fulfilment of our highest faculty that determines the nature and state of the human race.
What stands in the way of that fulfilment? The human mind-addition was the result of a mutation adopted in the interests of improving on instinct as our means of survival. To do this effectively the new mind had to assume moral authority and take over. It had to be independent of the old regime - free of instinctive, egoistic, conscious self-will. There was a struggle for supremacy between the new postconscious faculty and the old-established conscious faculty with all the ramifications that tied the latter to the body by way of emotion through the nervous system. The conscious faculty won.
As a result, the conscious took over as much as it could of the postconscious - the first of its six levels. This enhanced conscious mind applied itself to the instinctive drives, there being no other clear-cut formal guiding influence available.
The conscious mind erected a barrier against the postconscious because interference from that higher mind confused the conscious self and weakened its instinctive resolve. The postconscious also subscribed to this barrier which protected it in turn - from conscious interference and thus preserved its most essential feature - its freedom and independence.
Just think how our childhood is spent. Our minds are conditioned in such ways that the conscious takes charge and we become versed in worldly ways, with moral conscience just one of the options to be chosen if circumstances allow.
At the conscious level, religions implore us to obey moral conscience, but they also advise us to accept amoral reality. Normally the religious find ways of switching from one to the other, but occasionally, when the conflict is too stark to be ignored, they will go to war over it.
List of Branch articles. in no particular reading sequence:
PREVIOUS :1. The Nature and State of the Human Race: 2 : Truth - No-Go Area : 3. Facing Yourself: 4. Explaining the Mind :
CURRENT :5. Moral Mind :
REMAINING : 6. Great Men : 7. Comment Pinker : 8. The Way We Think : 9. Sanity for Humanity : 10. Evolution of Mind : 11. Free Thinker View : 12. Reality : 13. Understanding Consciousness : 14. Bottom Line : 15. Brain-Mind Relations: 16. Open Letter to Philosophers : 17. The Mind and Philosophy : 18. Self Twixt 2 Minds: 19. The Holographic Dimension:20. Transhumanism Transcended : 21. Mind, Will and Self
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