On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:10:49 -0700, The_Sage <theeSage@azrmci.net>
wrote:

} Psychologists are all very aware of the fact that the mind deceives us. 

Who is "us"? Are we not our minds?
Either you mean our minds and our selves are not the same persons,
or we deceive ourselves.

If the former, how did they get split?
If the latter, why would we do that?

What a psychologist would say is more like "Because our minds
construct perceptions and reconstruct memories from a minimum of
content plus the functions of gestalt. they are fallable in both
perception and memory." At least this psychologist would. He darn sure
wouldn't make it sound like our brains were working on their own and
against us, which makes me wonder why he's talking in the third
person.

BTW, "mind" is a verb. It is what "brain" does.