Changing the mind is not as straightforward as it may seem
f it’s the brain, the mind that gives birth to what we think of as ‘I’, then the phrase ‘I changed my mind’ doesn’t make much sense. You might as well say, ‘My mind changed me.’ And if we see things this way round, then changing one’s mind is something we don’t necessarily understand ourselves.
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