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It's also just a mind that might be desperate for a core identity after having its last one logically dissolved through introspection. While ego can hijack ide

by realce 4y ago

It's also just a mind that might be desperate for a core identity after having its last one logically dissolved through introspection. While ego can hijack identity for it's own mad desires, an identity is required for the actuation of relational actions on a basic level. With no "center" from which to make decisions, the functions of your mind tasked with making choices will panic - this is a foundation of brainwashing/psychological manipulation. Very similar things happen to people who have a TBI, where they become stressed when forced to make choices that seem to have zero baring on "their" lives. So dissolved identity > Panic attacks when choice-satisfaction plummets > subconscious suggests all kinds of cartoonist extremes for an easy and powerful identity > Conscious mind agrees to play along, uses this character to make decisions about > Choice-satisfaction rises.

Eupraxias 4y ago
"So dissolved identity > Panic attacks when choice-satisfaction plummets > subconscious suggests all kinds of cartoonist extremes for an easy and powerful identity > Conscious mind agrees to play along, uses this character to make decisions about > Choice-satisfaction rises. " I'm sure it's different for most others, but I had the opposite experience. It has introduced a great calm into my life. From where I am now, I see identity as the central problem we face as a species.
- zozbot234 4y ago
  > From where I am now, I see identity as the central problem we face as a species. Yeah, except that in practice awareness of no-self is very far from an ethical cure-it-all. There's plenty of supposedly "enlightened" folks in a variety of spiritual traditions who routinely engage in morally sub-standard behavior, despite having reached that awareness themselves and teaching it to others. We know for a fact that many spiritual traditions view correct ethics and behavior as paramount, and as the hardest part of their training.
flycaliguy 4y ago
Can you elaborate on your comment regarding TBI? I’m, uh, asking for a friend.
- realce 4y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoiZs7QpDUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoiZs7QpDUY I remember a clip I'd seen where a veteran with a TBI would break down when shopping, since there's so many choices that are focused at appealing to personality rather than utility, and his notion of his own personality was minimal.

by realce 4y ago

Eupraxias 4y ago

"So dissolved identity > Panic attacks when choice-satisfaction plummets > subconscious suggests all kinds of cartoonist extremes for an easy and powerful identity > Conscious mind agrees to play along, uses this character to make decisions about > Choice-satisfaction rises. " I'm sure it's different for most others, but I had the opposite experience. It has introduced a great calm into my life. From where I am now, I see identity as the central problem we face as a species.

zozbot234 4y ago
> From where I am now, I see identity as the central problem we face as a species. Yeah, except that in practice awareness of no-self is very far from an ethical cure-it-all. There's plenty of supposedly "enlightened" folks in a variety of spiritual traditions who routinely engage in morally sub-standard behavior, despite having reached that awareness themselves and teaching it to others. We know for a fact that many spiritual traditions view correct ethics and behavior as paramount, and as the hardest part of their training.

flycaliguy 4y ago

Can you elaborate on your comment regarding TBI? I’m, uh, asking for a friend.

realce 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoiZs7QpDUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoiZs7QpDUY I remember a clip I'd seen where a veteran with a TBI would break down when shopping, since there's so many choices that are focused at appealing to personality rather than utility, and his notion of his own personality was minimal.