Brendan Kelly

Wow, I guess to be human is to be here and to be aware and to be reflective.

We think about ourselves a lot.

We think a lot.

You know, we have incredibly complicated brains.

Each brain contains about 86 billion brain cells, releasing hundreds of chemicals, and they're connecting with each other, each one connected to maybe 10,000 other brain cells.

The entire contraption is more complicated than we can cope with.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

The physicist Emerson Pugh said, if our brains were simple enough that we could understand them, we would be too simple to do so.

But the problem is we focus on the brain all the time.

We focus our brains on our brains way too much.

And too often we treat our body, that is our physical body and the rest of our nervous system in our body, we treat that as a machine for carrying our brains around.

as opposed to it all being a unified entity.

And what's the problem with that?

Well, the problem with that is we behave as if we are disembodied.

We behave in such a way that we don't tap into the possibilities of our physical bodies.

We live these hyper-cognitive lives.

We think too much.

We overthink.

Did our ancestors think too much?

Probably.