RE: we are the narrators of our minds

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:29:12 -0700 

 

 

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of LizR

 

>>Yes, according to this view we are just "along for the ride".

 

One way of looking at it. However it seems to me more apt to think of ourselves 
as the loci of the consensus of our brain/minds; to view ourselves as the 
dynamic manifestation of a consensus quorum, which is the wellhead of our 
coming into being.

We are in some sense operators as well in this neural consensus network, 
influencing its vast number of constituent neurons with what we feel, believe, 
conclude and so on. However all this “feeling”, “believing”, “concluding” is 
actually happening in the brain/mind and mediating through what we sense as 
being ourselves back through the quorum network (that I suspect is operating 
beneath our conscious selves) looping back to us as “doubt”, “certainty”, new 
thoughts or focus of attention or whatever beautiful or ugly turn our mind’s 
eye takes.

In my view our common view of ourselves, of our “I” is incomplete. We are more 
than we are conscious of being and the part of ourselves, of which we are 
conscious – IMO -- is the narrating loci of the executive decisional consensus 
network that I am arguing is our actual “self”…. Even though we are unaware of 
the existence of by far most of its constituent activity.

Chris

 

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