a composition of certain thoughts about thinking

In the brain, the left hemisphere takes what the right is doing and tries to make sense of it. The right hemisphere is the present, what is happening at the moment; the left gives words for what is happening in the right; the left acts as the de facto purveyor of the past and the future.

(This is one way to think about time.)

Who you are and who you present to the world are two different beings. It cannot be otherwise.

The words given by the left brain to describe what is happening in the right, may or may not agree with what is happening.

Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist 'mapping the microcircuits of the brain", suffered a stroke and speaks of a specific transcendance that happened when the left hemisphere abandoned her for the right: "the light burned my brain like wildfire.

(See link below.)

http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

A Greek poet described his poetry as a "revenge against reality." How odd that seems now, how dissonant, to a mind now thinking that the brain is the great gift given to man, as strange and beautiful as the heavens must be to their gods.