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

Dec 5, 2015

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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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Stories are expressible in words by definition. Maybe you meant the events themselves?

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Words can merely conjure stories, not express them.

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Just to make sure we have our definitions down: are stories narratives (=superimposed on a number of occurrences) or something else?

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partially ordered mental representations with a top-level event structure and motivational relevance

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Then this still doesn't accommodate for the "living in several timelines" that brains do. psychogenic blindness, split brain patients

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Multiple selfs then, dissocistion, and imperfect cohesion.

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@allgebrah

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@Plinz

Yes but are we still using the right abstraction then? Or is it a hyperstory?

6:29 PM · Dec 6, 2015Twitter Web Client

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No, I mean that if we are telling multiple, non-integrated stories, we literally have multiple selfs.

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They usually reintegrate into a greater whole in seconds. Anyway I think we should take this to email or meatspace at c3 or so.