A Cerebral Parable
It is not true that the climber, who falls at the very last moment when his hand touches the pinnacle, has run out of physical endurance. The body that had endured until that moment is not so weak that it is no longer able to embrace the pinnacle. Perhaps if the peak moved a little higher, the climber would have the strength to climb still higher. The climber, who falls at the very last moment when his hand touches the pinnacle, has been deceived by and surrendered to his brain. His tired brain has inanely convinced him of having arrived, has prematurely signalled the end to the body.
Let’s imagine the body freed from the false unity and totality that the brain has fabricated for it. The brain can assume that it’s not a part of the human body, that it is the enemy of the body. If it is unhealthy to imagine this, if it’s more rational to assume that the brain is an organ of the body, then let’s assume it as a hostile organ to the body. The assumption of connection between the brain and the body is part of the brain’s deception itself — a self-deception necessary to bear its extended parasitic dependence on a body without which the brain would die.
