Mind Your Matter

Is your body something you have, or are?

Dualism has a long history;

Are you the driver of a fleshy car?

Or is mind body? A real mystery

Suppose the mind arises from the brain

Like steam, floating above a boiling pot;

Or a cloud releasing self-conscious rain

Epiphenomenalism can rot!

If brain is cause and conscious mind effect

Then matter is the parent of spirit

And the proud ship of dualism wrecked;

But what if mind is real, and brain knows it?

Then, like a radio, the brain receives

And of itself as instrument, conceives