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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I think this boils down to whether you subscribe to a materialistic or idealistic model of everything (i.e. mind function of matter, or matter function of mind). Trained as a scientist I always assumed the former, but these days have flipped to the latter.
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I think the solution to the puzzle is that we are living in a dream, dreamt on a higher plane of existence, but that higher plane is the physical universe realizing the brain. Magic is possible, because memory and experience is arbitrarily generated, but we cannot break the bank.
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