THE CULPRIT

The cerebral cortex in us humans is the most developed section of our brain and plays a critical role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness.

Our false perception that we are separate from everything else in the universe, rather than one with everything else, is the doing of the cerebral cortex.

The egoic self, a creation of the cerebral cortex, is the one seeing itself as apart from the rest of things.  The egoic self is an illusion, a psychologically and socially conditioned phenomenon, whose purpose is dubious at best.

The fall of man, so-called, in religion can be put in the lap of the cerebral cortex as well.  The fall came with the emergence in humans of the discriminating mind and its capacity for acquiring knowledge and making decisions.

Take away the cerebral cortex and what is left?  Adam and Eve before the fall, is what remains. The paradise of innocence as known to all other sentient beings, who do not have the trouble and suffering that we have, thanks to our higher mind.