The Instructions

Author
Adam Levin
Year of Publication
2010
When I read it
July, 2012
What I thought
4 stars
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That is what humans do—edit and interpret. That is 50 percent of what makes them human. It is an outcome of having a human soul.
Mind is to the study of human psychology what the ether once was to that of pre-Einsteinian physics—a convenient and groundless homuncular hypothesis that obscures exactly that which its proponents insist it describes; an illusion to be dispelled.
If I can pay attention to my attention, then I must be something other than my attention.
You don’t actually think that so much as You watch it get thought…