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This forum is primarily dedicated to higher quality posts and discussions. Those are welcome from everyone but will be filtered by the moderators. In order to foster more discussion, we have decided to start a weekly stickied discussion thread for the subreddit. This discussion thread is a place for people to post things that are more casual regarding subjective idealism, and things that are more exploratory. Here is a place for individuals to propose ideas and ask questions and figure out subjective idealism.

  • @syncretikOPMEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Like u/mindseal said, it’s you. I think the whole idea of SI is to eliminate any notions of separate entities, even notions that the subconscious is something separate. Like when you dream, it is you who has created the dream, but we don’t accredit it to some outside force just because we did not actively shape it.

    At an ultimate level this is true, but there are still intermediary illusory entities operating in your world if you are othering at all. So when you drop a rock. You don’t consciously drag the rock to the ground. It just falls. Your subconscious is doing that automatically for you. Or when you have a conversation with a person. You aren’t consciously coming up with thoughts and words and a background life for this character. And yet they stand there talking to you about it. That’s because there’s some subconscious process/creature/force operating in the background of your mind generating that character.

    Originally commented by u/AesirAnatman on 2017-08-08 01:33:05 (dlabers)

    • @syncretikOPMEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      You aren’t consciously coming up with thoughts and words and a background life for this character

      Yes, which is why I brought up the dream analogy. You aren’t consciously creating the dream, but it was still you who created it.

      It’s up for grabs what you want to call that aspect of you, whether it be subconscious or whatever, but I think it’s important not to attribute it to an outside force. George Berkeley ended up doing that and calling it God (a good video on that)

      Originally commented by u/WrongStar on 2017-08-08 01:51:06 (dlacex4)

      • @syncretikOPMEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        It IS you in an ultimate sense. But there a difference between what you consciously control and what is operating subconsciously in your mind. You can make what is subconscious conscious, but while it is subconscious it is not conscious (granted that this is a continuum). So, you might say you are growing all the trees. But you’re not doing that consciously, and you probably can’t just snap your fingers and make them all start to ‘un-grow’ back into seeds. That power is operating mostly unconsciously and is othered.

        Originally commented by u/AesirAnatman on 2017-08-08 01:56:26 (dlacpqq)