Depersonalization is a state in which you perceive yourself from a third person perspective as a character in a dream. It is hard to cure because it is literally true. Your mind is just not supposed to remember that it is the author of the dream that your self experiences.
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Replying to @Plinz
If you are not the author of these actions, is there an author at all? And can this be seperated from the author of any action in this universe? If you agree there is a consistent thread of time in this universe, there needs to be an author (cause) accountable for any event.
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Replying to @vakibs
The dream in which your self model stumbles around is generated by your brain, as a tool to predict what data the universe is going to throw at your nerves. There is probably a layer of the mind in which your brain monitors and evaluates its authorship of the dream.
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Can you move your attention to that layer? If you're not one of the layers, what are you?
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Replying to @monoscient @vakibs
You are noone. A fiction. A character dreamt up by your brain. Like the rest of the universe you experience.
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Who is experiencing the brain's fictions?
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The aggregate of innumerable sub-identities (your individual cells, the organelles that form those cells, the molecules that form those, and so on) whose cooperation "you" are an expression of, I think.
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Is there an "I" experiencing every forest, made up of the individual trees, birds, earthworms, etc? If not, what's special about the human body?
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The nature of "experience" doubtless changes through the levels, but it's entirely valid to view yourself (the colonial entity described above) as, essentially, a cell of your species, and the species as a tissue of its ecosystem etc. It's turtles all the way up *and* down.
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Replying to @NapalmSushi @monoscient and
Remember also that continuity of awareness between these levels is unnecessary. Your blood cells, for example, are an integral part of your total identity, but for them, your circulatory system alone is their entire universe, and they don't experience it the way you do yours.
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I understand that this is a very compelling vision, but I think that it originates in the mind that is implemented in your brain projecting its self into arbitrary circumstances. The organelles, cells and cell assemblies don't have the necessary hardware to run minds on them.
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Yeah, the character limit may be throttling my explanations a bit. Certainly nothing like a full animal experience exists at such levels, but rather scattered and very simple quanta of that experience, of which our perceived selves are basically the sum.
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"Certainly nothing like a full city experience exists at such levels, but rather scattered and very simple quanta (humans, buildings, electrical grids) of that experience"
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