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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Replying to @Plinz
I mostly like this, but in my version a) The mind is not conjured by the organism (but it is enslaved), and b) the mind does not dissolve in Nirvana, the self does.
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Replying to @timfox
Without a very specific way of feeding reward anticipating neurons set up in a suitable starting configuration, no mind emerges. Regulating consciousness may remain in the absence of a self (often, a new self emerges), but the mind can go beyond that, all the way into oblivion.
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Replying to @Plinz
An alternative model is that mind is universal and the starting point and special configurations of matter have the property of capturing fragments of mind, isolating them in areas of space/time thus creating illusions of selv(es)
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Replying to @timfox
I don't buy that; it seems pretty clear how evolution organizes cells into nervous systems that enable minds, and organisms can give rise to the emergence of minds at higher levels of organization, but in the absence of such mechanisms minds are unlikely to form.
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Replying to @Plinz
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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