what does it mean? : ( Your seat of intelligence )?

Question

I read this sentence in a book on meditation but I can't understand its meaning :
Your seat of intelligence and reason fancies itself not only in charge of your thinking ...
does (Your seat of intelligence ) mean as your power of intelligence?

Answer 1

That is the ego in a nutshell. Ego is false intelligence, false power. Once you understand the mechanisms of the ego you find a higher truth, a higher intelligence, a higher power.

The ego is an accumulated phenomenon, a by-product of living with others. If a child lives totally alone, he will never come to grow an ego. But that is not going to help. He will remain like an animal. That doesn't mean that he will come to know the real self, no.

The real can be known only through the false, so the ego is a must. One has to pass through it. It is a discipline. The real can be known only through the illusion. You cannot know the truth directly. First you have to know that which is not true. First you have to encounter the untrue. Through that encounter you become capable of knowing the truth. If you know the false as the false, truth will dawn upon you.

Understanding the ego and meditating will unveil true wisdom.

The best description and action concerning the ego that I've found so far is in the link below.

Answer 2

You are may be or not. but your seat is powerful with intelligence and wisdom. You can use your seat with good sense.

Answer 3

I think it means your collective intelligence...your wisdom, so to speak.

Answer 4

Wrongly quoted or badly worded? Doesn't seem to make sense.

Answer 5

Your ego. Your thinker.