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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

Aug 18, 2020

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?

Weft

@WeftOfSoul

Aug 18, 2020

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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@QiaochuYuan

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@WeftOfSoul

hmm so it feels important to you to fence off the stuff you haven’t digested / integrated yet as “not you”?

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Yes. There's a lot of ideas, some symbolic or memetic, that churn in that space that are not something I think or agree with, and holding a separation helps them not be so scary. Stuff like "I should crash my car and die" or "I need to stab this dog"