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From: Deepak Chopra Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 12:30 PM To: Jeffrey E. Subject: Re: Savants Will pursue --thanks ! Today's San Fran Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/chopra/artic=e/How-to-Cure-Our-Collective-Split-Personality-11328647.php <http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/chopra/article/How-to-Cure-Our-=ollective-Split-Personality-11328647.php> How to C=re Our Collective Split Personality chttp://www.sfrate.com/opinion/chopra/article/How-to-Cure-Our- Collective-Split-Personalit=-11328647.php> www.sfgate.com According to Seth, we're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree abou= our hallucinations, we call it "reality." Assuming that the act=vity of billions of brain cells is what produces our four-dimensional pict=re of reality (three dimensions of space plus the dimension of time), basic things like a sense of self aren't re=l in themselves. Neuroscience says we are all a mass of mixed-up perceptio=s, memories, expectations, and flawed brain processing (like a computer wh=se software can't keep up with a flood of data coming in), and therefore we can't trust the brain's hal=ucinations. In our first post, we pointed out that the chemicals and elect=ical charges in the brain are not special; they follow simple laws of chem=stry and physics that apply to rocks, trees, and clouds. If the mind produces the brain, we don't have this pr=blem, since the experience of a physical thing can easily be a mental phen=menon—think of all the "physical" obje