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The brain is the hardware, consciousness is experienced in the mind, the mind is the faculty for processing thoughts it is also the same faculty we use to perce
by cy6erlion 7y ago
The brain is the hardware, consciousness is experienced in the mind, the mind is the faculty for processing thoughts it is also the same faculty we use to perceive the self/ego and our reality with help from sensed data. The highest level of our consciousness the mind appears single threaded because the perceived self/ego is attached to the minds thread, multi threads will be like multi self. But we can be conscious of the fact that we are thinking, that is itself a sort of thread running, and we can perceive that one also, and the other...
- Gene_Parmesan 7y agoSometimes when I'm meditating I experience a mini ego-loss. I come out of it feeling like I'm merely a collection of running processes over which I have little to no control. I feel like I get a brief glimpse of 'multithreads,' and it's somewhat emotionally unpleasant.
- cy6erlion 7y agoYes exactly. My first comment was based on what I experience when meditating. > I feel like I get a brief glimpse of 'multithreads,' and it's somewhat emotionally unpleasant. I think it helps not to identify the self as the thoughts/processes of the mind, the self is the observer/awareness