The Human Mind: How to Live Intelligently in an Insane World

By F. Willard Brown

Here is a book that everyone should read and study, possibly the most important book of the century. Through it you will have a greater understanding of human consciousness, and the fundamental reason for mankind's disunity and endless wars.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665555326

F. Willard Brown

F. Willard Brown graduated from Cal poly and the University of Illinois and did additional graduate work at UC, Berkeley. He is an author, lecturer, educator and population activist, has worked with International Planned Parenthood, the Population Institute, and the Population Media Center. He has taught at Cal Poly, Palomar College, UC San Diego, and Brockwood Park.

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Published by AuthorHouse  01/24/2023

ISBN: 978-1-6655-5533-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6655-5531-9 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-6655-5532-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022905363

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               Stars, vapor, snow, the hills, rocks, the

               Fifth month flowers, my amaze, my love,

               Aware of the buffalo, the peace herds,

               The bull, strong breasted and hairy,

               Aware of the mocking-bird of

               the wilds at day-break,

               Solitary, singing in the West,

               I strike up for a new world.

— Walt Whitman

CONTENTS

Preface

Truth

Conditioning

Free Will

Evolution and Human Consciousness

Malthus Revisited

Belief

Sanity

Breeding

Diet

Fasting

Intelligence

Notes

PREFACE

The Human Mind grew out of my desire to leave a book which is a compilation of the most important things I have learned in my very long life.

After a lifetime of study I consider myself to be educated, and I am sure there are people who would disagree, and I respect their opinions. However, I say that a man who does not understand science, is not fully educated, no matter what else he may know. Science is certainly the greatest achievement of the human race and I am using the word science in the broad sense, which includes psychology and political science. Some will say, What about the arts? Yes, we all enjoy and appreciate the arts, but remember that the arts have not liberated us from our ignorance. It took science to do that.

Most of the American public is scientifically illiterate, a consequence of the failure of American public education. This failure permits our leaders to get away with unscientific statements such as the denial of global warming.

Yes, science has been abused, such as it was with the creation of nuclear weapons, just as any tool can be abused or misused. But this does not detract from the