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C S Pafford's avatar

Maybe. I still have no idea what 'I' is.

As far as I can tell, I'm six different patterns of electrical activity fighting over a spongy tentacles monster controlling a meat suit.

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Sol's avatar

Peterson would prolly call these gods, and then the mediator or ego ur talking about would be the highest god like yahweh or whatever. But how can I know that the thing doing the mediating is that, and not some usurper imitating it? Isn’t that like the whole gnostic problem

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simon's avatar

So simple, yet so powerful. I guess. Will apply.

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Ben L.'s avatar

You mean WINGMEN

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Didrik Dahl's avatar

Sometimes they call It inconscious, sometimes they call them archetypes, sometimes they call them cognitive schemese. Here in the swamps we call It THE VOID.

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OmegaFalcon's avatar

What benefit do you gain from actually acknowledging your psyche works like this beyond the fact that it more truly expresses what you're feeling?

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Jack Ditch's avatar

I'm fond of (though not entirely sold on) the idea that our bodies are just receptors for souls (memetic beings?) to move in and out of. I think the idea came from the Aztecs, or at least my garbled misunderstanding of them. Anyway, with you 100% on this one. I'm always a ball of contradictory opinions, my husband will attest to this.

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