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And one more of these.

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"On Consciousness."

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Easy actions of the mind
not subject to reality.

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Among the luxuries a safe life
affords, imagining the worst.

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The evidence spectral, admitted
before the mind's tribunal.

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On either side of
the corpus callosum,

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a separate awareness,
idea as chemical action

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in the brain, the self
erased, the rational having

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set a place for transcendence,
love igniting that place

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in the caudate nucleus.

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Inside one's body, an
absence documented,

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a portion of the future
measured in the mind containing

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an arrival, the simultaneous
search for pain and its relief

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as though one could resist the
tug of the mind's idle energy.

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Blown neurons,
fragments of death.

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You feel as though you
play the role of nothing,

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that you fail to show
up for your own life.

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The idea of a room opening
up inside one's body

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when we think we know.

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Do we alter reality?

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The brain's economy--
one object, one neuron,

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the mind made of words.

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All that matters most
surpassing reason

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at the margin of the already
known, where discovery happens,

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that ideas detonate
in slow motion.

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"On consciousness."