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You are not your brain. You are a story that your brain tells itself.

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story is the wrong word. It's neither linear, coherent nor expressible in words. example: situational memory, multiple personalities.

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Few stories are linear and coherent and expressible in words. Multiple personalities are just that: multiple stories.

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also instead of "coherence", I should've said "global consistence". (think internal competition model of cognition or whatsitcalled)

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It's like in distributed systems: Once you give up on global consistency, things become much easier.