Thinking About What Thinks

"I feel like the human mind craves reassurance far more than we think it does" 

The human mind is the most powerful thing in the universe. It's diversity, and it's complex, myriad ways of working which no one has been able to decode completely yet. The ability of the brain to change your whole perception of the world is unbelievable in itself. It could make you from a saint into a murderer. The possibilities are endless. We think we control ourselves. We think we think and take our actions independently. But in fact the brain is making us do all this. It's pre-programmed "software" decides everything for us. Our brain IS our mind. We feel what our brain wants us to let us feel and we neglect what our brain finds irrelevant. We are a representation of what goes on inside our brains. Although, I'm not saying we could go blaming our brains for every mistake we make. But what I am asking is why are "mental patients" called mental patients. Why is our social system designed in a way to test our brains, not "minds". Why are we prisoners in our own bodies? 

Two things brought my attention to this issue. The first is T's tweet as quoted above. And the second is the film "Gone Girl" that I watched. It really just hit me the extremes someone could go to just to reassure their mind. The lengths some people's brain's can make them go in order to seek revenge for false reassurance someone else has given them. The constant "devil" that is apparently sitting in the corner who's always whispering the opposite to what you think.. This internal argument may even  be between the brain and soul. Who knows? Maybe that is the purpose of life. The test everyone's brought to life on this Earth for. How we can fight this battle of both good and evil thoughts and sometimes thoughts that can't exactly be categorised to do what is the "right" thing, however foggy the situation may be. 

This is exactly why the human mind craves reassurance. It's a need not a want. The reassurance prevents us from wandering off onto the wrong path.. Reassurance assures us everything is happening as intended. As planned. Anything random puts us out of sync. Which is disliked by the brain. This results in the internal "chatter" when decisions have to be made. One voice says one thing. And the other says the complete opposite. Without reassurance we are mere beings without a purpose. A butterfly with discoloured wings. Or even a bird without a nest. 

It is not only ourselves we wish to reassure. But our own feelings about other people. Or reassuring someone else. When our relationships with others are put into scrutiny, reassurance is the best way to set things back in place. However fake the reassurance is. But that's a totally different subject altogether. Maybe.. Just maybe if the heart (meaning the mind) and brain started working together then things would be much easier. 

As I said, the possibilities are endless. And the theories for those possibilities would take forever to discuss. Our species is unfamiliar to this. And therefore reassurance is the only way we can trust ourselves to do what we are thinking we're doing right. Trust is the most important quality to us therefore we can only crave to trust our own judgement before trusting others..