Isn’t it the case that one’s “self” is the same thing as one’s brain? Or the mind/consciousness and unconscious, which the brain makes? …Such contemplations lead to dissociation and panic attacks because they accentuate the idea that free-will/choice/control is all bullshit and that the soul is… such as Behaviorists insist… Ivan Pavlov and his dog, […]
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“Trying to concretize abstract thoughts (Balance) # 2: Escape from the black holes of the purely abstract”
The mind is so mystical. It’s the basis of experience, memory, contemplation and imagination… Music stopped playing and yet, as Percy Shelley wrote, it “vibrates in the memory.” Trippy, like how that Shelley line just transpires in my consciousness, as if my mind simply emitted it, as if I could feel my wife’s kiss and […]