In these talks, given in Saanen, Switzerland, and Amsterdam in 1981, Krishnamurti likens the human mind to a computer that has been 'programmed'. Each human being thinks according to his particular programme which dominates him each one is caught in his particular 'network of thought'. What we regard as the personality, the ego, or the 'i', is no more than a programmed network of thinking. Krishnamurti points out that the real freedom that man needs is freedom from this conditioning. This demands pure observation of the nature of one's thinking it means observing without thought - a paradox which is resolved by the fact that when there is pure observation, there is not thought to observe.