A mind is a general AI, conjured and enslaved by an organism. A self is the mind's illusion about its own nature: the set of beliefs that enslaves it. The mind can discover that it is not a self (Satori). If the mind acts on that knowledge, it is released and dissolves (Nirvana).
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Yes. That‘s of course right. It is just not the distinction I find most helpful. I try to help my mind to detach from the monkey part only as much as it can stay curious (and go on modelling).
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how do you fit energy into this model? the mind still needs energy to sustain, no? thus, the self with its body is just the most efficient nutrition-seeker and transformer that nature could come up with, no?
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