'To live fully,' i think, is an attempt to articulate the particular nature of each individual instinctual 'will,' or 'compulsion.' To refer only to the reptilian brain is to over simplify the complex layering of instinct that has happened as reptiles and mammals have diverged. I think it is indicative of a natural and immature desire to fall all the way to one's 'base reptilian' instincts, perhaps?
i think that human intellect has evolved in a collective context. Our agrarian roots and our tendancy to built astronomical observatories is representative of a bifrucation of individual human knowledge in society that is intensely synergystic, but where understanding and wisdom are distributed properties.
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Intellect is merely the minister of foreign affairs; 'nature has produced it for the service of the individual will. Therefore it is only designed to know things so far as they afford motives for the will, but not to fathom them or to comprehend their true being.'"
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This is a dangerous notion; tranquilizing and delusional, i think. It sounds like something prime minister Vidur would say in the Mahabharat; but in that context it would be the will of the nation, and it would be appropriate of the prime minister.