Should consciousness be demystified?

Question:And here are trees and I know their gnarled surface, water, and I feel its taste. These scents of grass and stars at night, certain evenings when the heart relaxes - how shall I negate this world whose power and strength I feel? Yet all the knowledge on earth will give nothing to assure me that this world is mine. You describe it to me and you teach me to classify it. You enumerate its laws and in my thirst for knowledge I admit that they are true. You take apart its mechanism and my hope increases....What need had I of so many efforts? The soft lines of these hills and the hand of the evening on this troubled heart teach me much more.

ALBERT CAMUS, "The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: And here are trees and I know their gnarled surface, water, and I feel its taste. These scents of grass and stars at night, certain evenings when the heart relaxes - how shall I negate this world whose power and strength I feel? Yet all the knowledge on earth will give nothing to assure me that this world is mine. You describe it to me and you teach me to classify it. You enumerate its laws and in my thirst for knowledge I admit that they are true. You take apart its mechanism and my hope increases....What need had I of so many efforts? The soft lines of these hills and the hand of the evening on this troubled heart teach me much more.

ALBERT CAMUS, "The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942

..The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. [Lat., Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (V, 19)
The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio De Provinciis Consularibus (XI)
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 3)
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. [Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non potest.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 4)

Take thee to the diversity of being
The myriads of seeing
And thrill at the newnwess of each day
because you can feel it in your own way
Do not speak harshly of variations of view
For each of them is also you.

Generalist Apr 1. 08