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There are people living with full blown ego-loss, no "I" there at all. It can be quite hard to get to grips with, like being part of a 2D canvas (the perception
by armitron 10y ago
There are people living with full blown ego-loss, no "I" there at all. It can be quite hard to get to grips with, like being part of a 2D canvas (the perception of depth-space and also time is extremely warped).
It is fascinating to contemplate that dissociation may be the next stage in human evolution (leading up to ego-death and an emergent hive mind?) and that it may happen on a mass-scale, not through mysticism or magick or psychonautics but technology that has become so ubiquitous nobody can really escape from.
- hathawsh 10y agoFascinating indeed! That never occurred to me before. I bet there's a sci-fi novel that explores it.
- rjeli 10y agoApologies if this is getting too paranormal for HN, but you might want to read up on the online cult of Kek (watch "Esoteric Kekism" on YouTube). It's founded on the idea that consciousness forms reality, and that the internet has connected/aligned our minds tighter than ever before. Thus, internet memes, propagated among the collective consciousness, are said to have the ability to alter reality itself. Of course it's kookery (which I'm forced to say to avoid mockery), but it's quite relevant. See also the nam-shub of Enki from Snow Crash.