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This is something that interests me intensely. I had a drug experience once that "I" was a story I was telling myself about a conversation between a number of

This is something that interests me intensely. I had a drug experience once that "I" was a story I was telling myself about a conversation between a number of distinct drives or entities in my head, and that I could "uninvite" them from the conversation, or with discipline create or destroy them. I've always wondered if this had any basis in reality.

iscro 8y ago
That's interesting. I've never done drugs, but I'm very interested in consciousness and neuroscience. Both modern philosophy and neuroscience appear to be converging towards the idea that the "I or the self" is an illusion and that consciousness is a predicting machine. So the drug caused your consciousness or brain to create multiples illusions ( or multiple "I's" ).
- theaeolist 8y ago
  Some fashionable philosophers and futurologists share this view, but it is not backed by any new factual findings. To me the statement "the self is an illusion" is borderline oxymoronic: who is it that is having the illusion, if there is no self? An "illusion" is by definition an incongruence between objective reality and subjective perception. And subjective perception requires, necessarily, a self.
- oceanghost 8y ago
  This felt more like the splitting of an atom to me-- something that was previously thought was indivisible. You should alter your consciousness if you want to understand it :)
schoen 8y ago
You might want to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_workspace_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_workspace_theory https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-i... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind
- oceanghost 8y ago
  None of these were exactly analogous, but they show that others are thinking along the same lines. Thank you, fantastically interesting.

iscro 8y ago

That's interesting. I've never done drugs, but I'm very interested in consciousness and neuroscience. Both modern philosophy and neuroscience appear to be converging towards the idea that the "I or the self" is an illusion and that consciousness is a predicting machine. So the drug caused your consciousness or brain to create multiples illusions ( or multiple "I's" ).

theaeolist 8y ago
Some fashionable philosophers and futurologists share this view, but it is not backed by any new factual findings. To me the statement "the self is an illusion" is borderline oxymoronic: who is it that is having the illusion, if there is no self? An "illusion" is by definition an incongruence between objective reality and subjective perception. And subjective perception requires, necessarily, a self.
oceanghost 8y ago
This felt more like the splitting of an atom to me-- something that was previously thought was indivisible. You should alter your consciousness if you want to understand it :)

schoen 8y ago

You might want to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_workspace_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_workspace_theory https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-i... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind

oceanghost 8y ago
None of these were exactly analogous, but they show that others are thinking along the same lines. Thank you, fantastically interesting.