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  • @syncretikOPMEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    That it does, even now sometimes a “voice of ration” will come into my head as an obvious attempt of trying hard to hold on to convention. It’s no different than any other addiction, where the brain will come up with excuses to relapse and voice them as ration and reason.

    What’s funny is that you’re attributing agency to your brain here, which is exactly a feature of physicalism. ;) I don’t know if you’re doing this as a joke or if it’s a serious slip up.

    Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2017-08-06 15:36:06 (dl8b9rt)

    • @syncretikOPMEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      A little bit of both, unintentionally the latter. I guess physicalist terminology is still embedded in me.

      I understand the brain isn’t the center of consciousness so I guess a better way to phrase it is “I’ll sometimes have feelings of self-doubt”. Which isn’t exclusive to just trying to change experience, these feelings often arise in other aspects of my life so it only makes sense that it would also translate into this, and this case it’s me holding on to ideals of convention. I guess more introspection is needed :)

      Originally commented by u/WrongStar on 2017-08-06 23:31:37 (dl8m6z9)

      • @syncretikOPMEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I understand the brain isn’t the center of consciousness so I guess a better way to phrase it is “I’ll sometimes have feelings of self-doubt”.

        Exactly. You have to take responsibility instead of delegating it to an element of your own experience. The brain is an element of your experience.

        Which isn’t exclusive to just trying to change experience, these feelings often arise in other aspects of my life so it only makes sense that it would also translate into this, and this case it’s me holding on to ideals of convention. I guess more introspection is needed :)

        Yup. The metaphor of “a brain as an agent” is something deeply conditioned into many of us. It can be conditioned to the point where even in your dreams it’s possible that you also use that physicalistic metaphor.

        Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2017-08-07 08:41:07 (dl9b3fp)