well if you wanna go deeper then we are just processes running on a bio computer that’s our brain and nervous system.
or if you wanna go deeper we are just a bunch of DNA that wants to replicate and spread.
Go deep.
we are just processes running on a bio computer that’s our brain and nervous system.
We’re processes running on two bio computers, one of which is actively suppressed by the other. That’s our brain and nervous system.
Men are just DNA mosquitoes, only instead of taking blood we deposit DNA.
I mean, we still suck. but that’s more of a classification or generalization for another time.
And if you go really deep matter itself moves to form organized organic compounds that reproduce and grow in complexity under stable physical processes.
I like to spread my DNA without replicating it.
In other words I’m a mistake of evolution.
(Jk all the other shit humanity has done to destroy the planet and allow 100 people to have half of the world’s wealth are the mistakes.)
pretty shitty meat armor, might i add.
It breaks a lot
It’s pretty amazing that it can self mend
I call my blood balloon stick mech The Vessel.
The Vessel is fucked up, but the spirit piloting the mess is doing great.
Then why I die from liver failure.
You’re not piloting a bone mech, you are it.
It feels like you’re behind your face looking out into the world but once you pay close attention and look for what’s looking you’ll discover there’s nothing there. There’s no “you” in a sense that there’s someone behind the wheel. There’s just consciousness. It feels like something to be. A subjective experience.
WHERE IS THE PAINLESS OFF BUTTON!?
That’s called a massive dose of opiates. You are highly unlikely to reboot after complete shutdown, so it’s generally not recommended.
Pain is mandatory, suffering is optional.
Hey Sam Harris is that you?
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‘Look for what’s looking’ is something he often says in his daily meditation sessions on the Waking Up app, which famously frustrates people. ‘There’s just consciousness and its content’ is also a direct quote from him.
Neither of these he probably came up with by himself, but that’s his way (and in my view, the best way) of saying it.
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Our being is just a brain and a nervous system. Our body is just a space suit
Goes more abstract than that. Our being is the unique interconnected pattern we all have of billions of firing neurons. Erase the pattern and you erase the human and make them a blank slate infant again. We are just software.
TLDR; We are the entire universe pretending to be an individual.
I like where you are going with it, but I think it’s more crazy than that. It seems that the idea of self/individual is an illusion. We think of our self’s as just our brain. But we are much more than that. There is an inter connectivity between our brain and the rest of our body that science is now just starting to understand. On top of that, we have everything else outside our body that we need to survive/can influence our health and train of thought.
As an example, think of all the things you can/can’t control with your body. Heart rate, digestion, fighting off infections, what mood you are in, etc.
This is where breath work in yoga/meditating comes in. It’s the most obvious example of a physiological process that is involuntary but also voluntary. Focus on that, and you can start blur the boundary between self and other.
So the question is, “where do “I” end, and where does “everything else” begin”?
Turns out that there is no solid or non-subjective answer to that.
It’s almost as if our ideas of “self” are an illusion in order to birth the evolutionary advantageous behavior of being social.
Anyway…I’m starting to feel the edible… have a great Labor Day!
I’m 14 and this blew my mind
But where are you really? Behind your eyes? We become aware of sensations in the body but how can they be above or below us? The sensory data just is, there’s no place we receive it from, it just appears and then disappears. Any label we put on this is just a convenient conceptual overlay that attempts to make sense of it and give it meaning. There is no meaning, only emptiness.
I sense injuries. The data could be called pain.
Indeed. Sometimes we get injured and don’t notice it. Other times we feel pain and there is no injury. We’re attempting to make sense of experience by applying concepts to what we feel. It’s the reason why chronic pain management using drugs is unsustainable.
