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human condition we may note that man is not too far removed from the animal Many will question this ob- servation; not many seem to want to think of having a relationship or resemblance to lower animals.

Yet, when man and animal are compared anatomial- ly, the likenesses are impossible to deny. We have the same bone structure, same organs, including those for reproduction, the same basic physiology and the same basic physical needs. There is only one major difference between man and animal. Man has a frontal lobe in his brain.

With this frontal lobe he is able to do what we call thinking. It is with this frontal lobe that he conceives and creates things. Unfortunately, it is also the frontal lobe that gives him his self-awareness. This is where the trouble starts.

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He knows through the use of his senses and the self-awareness they produce that he is relatively separate and apart from all other things. If he tries to walk through a tree he is stopped abruptly and he feels pain immediately; using his brain with its frontal lobe, he begins to get the idea that he is truely an individual.

Unfortunately, he does not use his brain to its full potential. He, for instance, fails to notice that the guy next to him is an exact copy in regard to build, interests and basic characteristics. He fails to notice that his neighbor is following the same basic cultural patterns. He fails to notice the many things that tend to destroy individuality.

He fails, because the brain per se is like a computer. The organs which contain the sensing equipment feed the information in. The brain files and stores it. The in- tellect takes what it wants and needs, leaving anything else untouched or as the psychiatrists say, "repressed". Freud showed us that we consciously remember only about 80% of what our brain receives. The other approximate 20% is there but it isn't "remembered". It is repressed in the subconscious.

It is my belief that the memories that destroy in-

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