https://en.m.wikipedia.org/... is a fantastic exploration of this idea, focusing on people who have lost specific parts of their brains due to tumors or strokes. The human mind is very much like a complex modern website- take Amazon for example, if everything is working, it’s the website where you buy stuff, but if certain specific systems are offline, you lose specific features, like your order history, or your cart, or your recommended products, etc… Missing one or two of of those components diminishes the site somewhat, but it’s still more or less Amazon. Your brain works the same way!

And the underlying animal is still there too. It's fully in control at birth, and gets drowned out as we mature (for some people, less than others).
Small children are little more than animals, which is why they're so unreasonable.
It's my belief that the reason the written word or things like clocks are usually unreadable in dreams, is because the animal is both illiterate and innumerate. Dreams are the animals understanding of our waking experience. It knows these patterns are important and how they relate to other things, but it has no fucking idea what any of it actually means.

I posit this as well. I’m made up of at least 5 or 6 different versions of me with different biases and personalities. There’s a negative narcissistic version, there’s a happy go lucky version, a pragmatic version, a nihilist with a dark sense of humour, a soppy emotional one, and others and they all fight constantly to have their say. I thought everyone was like this 🤪

You would like Global Workspace Theory, basically says your consciousness is the result of components of the brain broadcasting their information to the whole.

I also like Integrated Information Theory which measures the conscious experience of a system by how integrated it is, which means that you can't reduce the system to the sum of it's parts without losing the emergent properties.

Yeah, and come to think of it, I bet you that each one has its own characteristics. Perhaps they may be full blown individuals themeselves from another time and place, and I too will one day join them...

Brb gonna go sailing...

So if I run enough different AI LLM models and let them communicate, I can create consciousness?

That can't be because I clearly exist and cannot differentiate between these "smaller agents", I am either so perfectly unified that I cannot tell, or this emergentism is bullshit

No there’s no need to posit cutesy sounding things, that’s how misinformation starts :) If you have any sources or can cite stuff you’ve read which may point to it, that’s cool though

Both gay & both loud af, at the same time.

Sorry about that transporter malfunction.

And they were delicious

Lived in SE USA most of my life...the majority of the most ridiculous fundamentalists don't have an inner monologue. They speak but there is nothing going on upstairs except life processes.

The way they cling to ideas from others explains why they cling so tightly...they never had one of their own.

Because of this phenomenal outlook they typically adhere to the first idea that comes around and dismiss everything else as false.

Critical thinking is not applicable to everyone.

Makes sense, in a lot of spiritual practices I've been involved in, hearing such a voice is believed to be a higher power.

Unless you mean thoughts themselves, and not something similar but deeper.....

I read... Something once and they suggested the past we may have collectively possessed a more direct relationship with rekigi9n like you're talking about. That for some reason or another we don't tend to "hear the voice of hod" like we once did. Out relationship with our internal self had changed. Maybe it was bred out by our tendency to kill the religious folks who disagree the most with whatever the dumpster jour religion at the time is.

My non-verbal consciousness says

I wish mine would stop giving me intrusive thoughts

I'm pretty sure mine hates me and makes me so stupid stuff whenever I'm distracted.

Kill the Abomination!

Fear is the mind killer.

I, too, did a heroic dose of mushrooms once

There is the idea that it'd be easier for the universe to spontaneously create a single consciousness that knows and experiences everything and thinks they are you rather than creating a big bang that naturally leads to beings with consciences such as you.

The vibe when you pay monthly tribute to your landed lord. 👌

Ah the Soul Antenna theory, yyes I hope that's valid

I too have ADHD

You don't kill the other one. You work on coordinating them so you can consciously apply yourself to two different things at once.

Nah, that's just anxiety my dude.

Its what I tell people are the voices in my head

And neither one has access to speech

Mine share the same lonely neuron.

I heard that that was a misunderstanding, and the two halves of the brain are still the same entity, but with more limited ability to communicate

This is science memes, what about this post do you find similar to egg_irl?

Alien hand syndrome makes me believe this. Usually occurs when something traumatic happens to the brain. The way it's described seems like the dominant consciousness losing control of that motor function to the lesser consciousness.

But if you cut the corpus callosum of the brain in half, it's possible to have two operating systems that conflict with each other in actions in the body.