If there was a complete manual on your brain,

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Well, the most natural assumption would be our creator. Or, secondly, maybe some smart-ass aliens. Either way, I doubt any of us would have the time to read and truly understand the whole thing. I suppose we'd just be skimming it and thumbing through the index and table of contents. I mean, can you imagine trying to memorize even all the wiring?

I think I'd be alternately opening and closing the book, in fear of what I might discover, and how it might affect my thinking from that day forward. My naïvete would be completely gone, forever. If the information showed my definite limits, for example, that would be permanently disheartening, if not depressing.

Many things I have learned, I was happier before I did. Not better off, but happier. King Solomon wrote that with great knowledge comes great sadness. If true, would we really want a gargantuan amount of knowledge dumped in our lap all at once? Might produce too much sadness to bear. I also agree with the guy who replied that it would spoil life to know exactly how our minds works. But that's how the question was put: complete knowledge -- nothing held back, no matter how brutal.

Well, since it'd be in book form, I guess I could just look up the few essentials I seem to be struggling with, and then happily leave the rest of the book unread.

God?

Why would He write a manual on how we should use our brains?

Wait...there is a manual for our minds and in fact all our lives! I'm surprised I didn't think of it before. Of course! It makes perfect sense...it's the Bible!

"would you read it?"

Yes, then I'd correct the typos, pick apart the fallacies, ridicule the author, and offer to rewrite it correctly.

Don't eat the fruit.
Ok boss.


eating the fruit......