thinking a lot about thinking and consciousness as I age it seems like thoughts are more the application of series of systems trained trained to solve a class of problems A lot of thought is just looking for the appropriate highly-chunked subroutine to handle the case
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maybe a lot of individuality is a function of which subroutines are available and their likelihood of being called
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anyway I bet a lot of childhood is growing these functions for solving problems and some of the thinness or (unreality)? of adulthood comes from having too much efficiency in problem solving
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Replying to @eigenrobot
maybe a sense of 'unreality' emerges from the synesthetic disconnect between the sense of wellbeing provided by the reflexive efficacy of your homegrown heuristics & any discordant confusion with the persistent problems of Life for which you have no optimally operative algorithm.
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oh NO you're probably right better figure everything out quickly
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