![]() ![]() This song is about the lead singer of Three Days Grace, Adam Gontier, describing his experience with drug addiction and rehab. Check out the music video down below lyrics are listed below the video. We all have a dark side and sometimes we just need to accept that and get it under control rather than ignore it and let it define us. I think everyone can relate to this song at one time or another during their lives. Sorry for the digression, I let the meditation you triggered run free.Animal I Have Become is one of my all time favorite songs by one of my all time favorite bands. Isn't it absurd then to say "I feel proud," if 'I' is an amalgamation of sensory information? "The internet feels proud today" is an absurd sentence. Our selves are fleeting, made up of transitory, temporary information. A brain without sense organs is not a self, a computer without a network is not the internet. Like our sense of self, its emergence is dependent on the whole, not individual parts. If everyone turned off their computers there would be no internet. The internet feels very real, but has no physical form. Viewing it from this frame of modularity makes it much easier to understand no-self. It's fascinating to think that our sense of self is a modular construction. This is how sensory deprivation hallucinations occur. If we turned each node/stream off one at a time, the brain eventually generates simulations of each stream. The brain has some emergent sense streams, like thinking, which it feeds back into itself. Taste, touch, etc each are streams that meet at the brain, are filtered, interpreted then digested. ![]() I imagine founts of sense experience, each a node with a stream of information reaching the brain. He definitely doesn't think we see reality the way it is and has accumulated good evidence and theory for that and has spent a lot of time connecting it to evolutionary biology. Might be worth a search on YouTube for you. He talks about ideas similar but different from yours by the way. ![]() I think I got this from something Donald Hoffman said. The body is the machine and the operator of the machine and the mind is just like the Windows desktop. I don't know if this solves anything, but the way that I think about it is that the the mind is just the body's UI to the body. I'd argue, as the Devil's advocate, that they actually don't and we can probably live without them perfectly fine. You have to explain the reason that those things would make life "meaningful" (i.e. Second, your idea only works if there is also a mechanism that would cause us to value consciousness, free will, etc. your body) are clearly aware of yourself (i.e. We are so much more than our conscious experience, which is only a fairly small subset of our actual ongoing mental activity, which itself is continuously influenced by the needs and responses of the body beyond the brain.įirst, I definitely don't think self-awareness is an illusion (any more than anything else is.) You (i.e. Conscious thoughts are only a small part of our ongoing mental activity, including decision making, and not always in the driving seat. We construct a conscious experience after the fact and sometimes we get it wrong. when a phone rings sometimes we think we experienced knowing the phones was going to ring before we are aware of the sound. We take many actions unconsciously and then construct post-hoc logical justifications for why we did them. That is, in many ways it is a post-hoc construction. Then there’s the fact that our conscious experience of the rodent is largely synthetic. Thus consciousness if not illusory is certainly ephemeral and transitory. I imagine these semi-conscious or flow states are the standard mental mode for many animals. So consciousness comes and goes frequently every day. When we become consciously aware of the present sometimes it can be disorienting as we transition into full consciousness. Much of the time we are in undressing sleep, or in a state of fugue or flow in which we are acting unconsciously. It very much depends what people mean when they say consciousness or self awareness is an illusion.įor example, we only spend spend small portions of our lives in a fully conciliatory state aware of the present. ![]()
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