Why does OCD exist?
You can take an opposite stance from your brain.
Have you ever gone through a phase where you needed to touch everything three times on the left and three times on the right? Or where you felt you had to walk five circles around every pole?
That’s because this is how your brain shows you that you are not your brain—that you can diverge from your thoughts. It’s like a one-on-one training session your brain offers you.
If there weren’t things like OCD, there wouldn’t be a clear difference between you and your brain, and then there would be no you. The point is that there is a you that can make its own decisions.
For me, most scientific theories feel like tarot cards. You want a formula that works here and now—and in the future. That is exactly like a tarot card.
The correct order is: something happens, you observe it, and you make notes. Not building formulas that claim to predict the future, because that isn’t possible. The future has vague contours, but it is mostly unknown.