At this point one might start thinking something like this: Perhaps if we confine our thoughts to the physical world, we seem to have no option but determinism or random in-determinacies, and we lose sight of real freedom. But suppose there is another level. Behind or above the evolutions of brain and body, there is the Real Me, receiving information, and occasionally directing operations. There will be times when left to themselves the brain and body would move one way. But with direction from the Real Me, they will go the other way. I can take over, and interfere with the way things would
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This seems to be the hope offered/promised by mindfulness, in a kind of crass language.
