Again, I'm pretty sure the only reason all this makes intuitive sense to me is a ketamine trip in childhood during surgery.
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l don't actually REMEMBER a ketamine trip, which is normal for surgical doses, but I started thinking of theory of mind immediately after
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haha, yeah. it's weird. when sufficiently tired, we have managed to observe ourselves thinking things but then immediately forgetting.
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…Only when tired?
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We observe degrees of memory issue, most are far less severe or immediate
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I've never had a serious drug trip or dissociative episode but I feel like I can still imagine the idea of separation/depersonalization
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A lot of meditative exercises are about separating the internal observer and the actor (including some weird theatre stuff)
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Yes, exactly. Dissociation is a new name for a very old thing; meditation has been about using dissociation in specific ways, from the start
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(cf. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.118.than.html … and draw your own conclusions, if you feel that our claim requires support)
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It's funny how much weird quasi-religious stuff you get into when you take acting classes
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Like therapy only the goal isn't to get better, just to be more fun to watch
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But the idea, after all, is still to try to identify your own unconscious impulses and then modify or replace them
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I've heard the religious term "third eye" thrown around a lot in an acting context with that distorted but similar meaning
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