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  1. ToALonelyPeace

    "We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself"

    Consciousness, Spirituality, and Intellectual Honesty - with Thomas Metzinger | Deconstructing Yourself Most interesting is the discussion on the state of the brain on psychedelics as "pre-processing" like a loading state in video game, the self as "an empty avatar without consciousness", how...
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    "We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself"

    Conference by Thomas Metzinger in 2017. It confirms what Joscha Bach talks about with Lex Fridman on the brain modeling an agent of control called 'I'. Metzinger goes even further: the mind is constantly shifting between conscious/1st person POV and what is termed 'mind wandering' which is...
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    "We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself"

    More on how to reach the unconscious/hallucinate God with sleep deprivation and fasting. Skip to 12:23 because he goes on tangents quite a bit. I read other accounts and often the 40th day marks the beginning of these hallucinations. These methods were popular with the Hindu ascetics and early...
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    "We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself"

    Thank you for your detailed posts. I'm going to catch up on the video later but right now my thoughts are: -Is the unconscious really me though or something more primordial? In other words do we have the same unconscious (something like Jung "Collective Unconscious") or is it individualized...
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    "We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself"

    @Unwary Traveller: Thank you for the clips. Watching your clips and the entire interview between Bach and Fridman made me realize how far humans have come defining what 'consciousness' is. At some point in the past humans began to think of the voices they hear as their own minds instead of...
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    "We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself"

    For some reason I cannot embed the Ytube video in my title post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyrPMVMb-Uw
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    "We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself"

    https://youtu.be/tyrPMVMb-Uw AI Ytube talk between Joscha Bach and Lex Fridman. Discussion on reality, idealism, materialism, dualism in context of simulation/video game. I thought the bit about marionette at the end would fit this forum.
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