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Aug 18, 2020

i would love to hear more thoughts and analysis on this "badbrains" meme style, where people depict themselves as separate from their brains and their brains are depicted as antagonistic twitter.com/manicomplex/st

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Weft

@WeftOfSoul

Aug 18, 2020

I often use phrases like "my mind is assaulting me with stupid ideas" or "my brain is telling me I gotta" or a specific part of brain like lizard brain, frontal lobe etc is doing some countereffective thing. It feels true; my conscious reasoning or identity does not participate

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@QiaochuYuan

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one thing that’s interesting to me here is the conceptualization of these thoughts as coming from “my brain” rather than e.g. as showing up in the brain but coming from an external source, beamed into the brain by aliens or w/e. wondering to what extent this is learned i guess?

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I tend to conceptualize it as some big-nebulous ur-need from outside of ~matter~, getting filtered through the brain, and kinda hands-off management letting the brain direct the ur-need in its own way... and the brain doing a terrible job of effectively carrying out the thing

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@the_wilderless

Aug 18, 2020

Oversoul is the CEO, the brain is the inept middle manager, the Everyday Me is the employee listening to the idiot manager and doing a double take at the oversoul like “is he serious? How haven’t you fired this guy?” So I guess meditation is me trynna get a direct line to the CEO

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I learned this from neuropsychology, meditation, mindfulness and therapy I think. Before a good grasp/practice I just thought I think/believe/want fucked up crazy things and it scared me, knowing myself only as one mind with dark idiosyncrasies

Weft

@WeftOfSoul

Aug 18, 2020

Feels good to have an unexplained fringe of 80% of my noticeable brain activity that I fence out of my investigated garden of useable, presentable and understandable self

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