Or, What if you were sleepwalking-thru-a-labyrinth-of-your-own-insanity like Patrick Bateman, but instead of being a serial killer you were a total sweetheart ❤️
February 15, 2024
Read this online, a theory that has kinda shooketh me.... "The average person is somewhat 'less real' than people in the past"..... Is this true? 🧐 Am I less real? 😶🌫️
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I think maybe I read something like this in Daniel Dennett's "Consciousness Explained". I remember this anecdote where something says that in the past, there were some people who lacked consciousness, because it had not been "invented" yet, or something.
I have not read this book, but this is a very funny thing to say, lol. "[Jaynes] places the origin of consciousness around the 2nd millennium BCE and suggests that the transition from the bicameral mind to consciousness was triggered by the breakdown of the bicameral system." [ "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes (1976)]
Another thread is like..... This sentiment I've seen, that like some people in the world are "NPCs" [which seems like the same kinda thing as a "philosophical zombie"]. But could a person choose to become an NPC? 🤔
Also I read a bunch of posts on /r/derealization, which kinda makes you feel insane anyway 😵💫
I had a moment one morning recently [while still eepy probably] where my own voice sounded unfamiliar to me, like it was something separate from myself. But I thot, if I regard it in a friendly way (like you would a wild fox) then it would probably be friendly to me....
since this is a kind of emergent trait of things that exist in the world: creatures tend to be kind to each other bc then both creatures can coexist without hurting each other. If I'm kind to this voice, then it will probably be kind to me, and we can both get along pleasantly.
And I figured that this is a good habit (virtue!) to engrain in yourself. Because if at some point you sort of move into the fog of delirium and lose yourself, then you might at least still be kind to the assemblage of your parts and kind to people around you who might help you.
And if you do this, then you might continue to live in a pleasant and peaceful way--even if things become very confusing and you aren't sure where you are or what came before or what it is you're supposed to be doing.
This is basically just "go with the flow", lol. But that's actually good advice I think!
Happy Valentine's Day! 💕"