I have been reading this for several days now, and will probably come back to go over things again.
One thing that I kept thinking about is the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness. There's this idea in there that consciousness is integrated, it unifies our experience, making it irreducible. I think this element of consciousness…
I have been reading this for several days now, and will probably come back to go over things again.
One thing that I kept thinking about is the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness. There's this idea in there that consciousness is integrated, it unifies our experience, making it irreducible. I think this element of consciousness hides the many layers of consciousness within us. There is a sense that we are one person, even though we switch through many personas.
I have had this sense of myself for quite sometime now. Being a people pleaser, I have had all these different ME-I-am-to-YOUs in me for my whole life. The internet MEs are definitely different than the work MEs. I switch when I talk to different people. I freeze when I talk to too many people because the dissonance is high. I also pick up personalities from others, I like to wear what they are wearing, I like to use the words they use, it helps me feel like them. I still have that unified ME feel, but I also have these other identities that situationally inform that ME and change it.
I am less interested in self-actualization than I am integration with the world and communities around me. What you are saying reflects my experieince.
I have been reading this for several days now, and will probably come back to go over things again.
One thing that I kept thinking about is the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness. There's this idea in there that consciousness is integrated, it unifies our experience, making it irreducible. I think this element of consciousness hides the many layers of consciousness within us. There is a sense that we are one person, even though we switch through many personas.
I have had this sense of myself for quite sometime now. Being a people pleaser, I have had all these different ME-I-am-to-YOUs in me for my whole life. The internet MEs are definitely different than the work MEs. I switch when I talk to different people. I freeze when I talk to too many people because the dissonance is high. I also pick up personalities from others, I like to wear what they are wearing, I like to use the words they use, it helps me feel like them. I still have that unified ME feel, but I also have these other identities that situationally inform that ME and change it.
I am less interested in self-actualization than I am integration with the world and communities around me. What you are saying reflects my experieince.
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