There is a story that when Albert Einstein was leaving Nazi Germany for America, his wife became very concerned that she had to leave behind so much furniture and other household items. “I am attached to them,” she complained to a friend. To this, Einstein joked, “But my dear, they are not attached to you.” This is the thing. Emotions are not attached to you; because you are not your brain, you don’t have to identify with your existing brain circuits.
