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"We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself"
This brings us back to the idea of self, and gives me a sense that this self, the "I" that we identify ourselves as, is not as fundamental to conscious experience as we usually think it is. In fact, this self begins almost to look like a constructed identity, as if you are a tulpa created by...- Unwary Traveller
- Post #6
- Forum: Philosophy
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"We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself"
Interesting video and links, thanks. The guy talking about Julian Jaynes's theory is very perceptive. I've been mulling this stuff over for a few days so my response is quite long, and some of it crosses over with a post I'll make on the "fiction as religion" thread. (I'm kind of thinking out...- Unwary Traveller
- Post #5
- Forum: Philosophy
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"We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself"
Wow, that Joscha Bach has a rather formidable intelligence. I laughed when Lex Fridman gets so tangled up in the onslaught of ideas that he says "Hold on, do I exist, in your simulation?" The full length podcast gives a bit more of a warm up before he launches into this dense explanation (so far...- Unwary Traveller
- Post #3
- Forum: Philosophy