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In the womb we are just sentient animals. No self reflection, no head chatter and no memories.

As we grow into children the ‘mind’ kicks in and we learn all the higher-order thinking and self awareness functions.

These must have evolved to give us a competitive edge over the other species and each other.

But grafted on as they are to the animal sentience we are a walking paradox, a unicameral civil war.

Taking advantage of the situation evolution has turned all this self awareness into a boon.

Thus sex and reproduction are the results of just about all of our mind-body dislocations.

For the more aware, life’s journey starts with the sentient animal, launches into the cognisant and then fights it’s way back to the sentient animal in time for the ashes

It’s a real shame that we don’t have 500 years to properly enjoy this journey. As it is most people’s journeys are fraught with fear and most never get anywhere near the endpoint.