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Originally Posted by Smarag
Take the idea that there's no such thing as memory. Remember that one? The paradox here is that what I'm suggesting is that there's no need for a permanent record. In order to "remember" whatever it is that you need to, if every experience that you have transforms you. What I'm suggesting is that the mind is a stupendously elaborate and sophisticated image of the world and that each time a new experience takes place the image is changed. The way that we know and "remember" is by seeing within ourselves, within our minds, the updated image in a real-time instant by instant fashion from top to bottom. |
Interesting idea. I like it. But I have a question. I think I understand that you're saying the brain (the whole brain or a specific part?) is constantly remapping itself to change with the experiences it perceives. This changing brain is, as you say, an elaborate image of the world. So is it the brain that's changing
and observing itself? Or is there something else observing the changing brain to get the updated image of "now"?
Either way, perhaps sometimes there is a lag between the brain or mind changing from an experience and the observer observing that changed, updated image. This would maybe explain some out of body experiences people have in traumatic events. For instance, people sometimes do heroic, but extremely dangerous things, and they make maneuvers and desicions in split seconds. Like if someone saved someone else from a burning car before it was about to explode. Perhaps what really happens is you go, save the person, and escape just in time, and your brain conforms and shapes to these experiences. But there is a lag between the mind changing and the observations of it's updated image, and so your inner self, your consciousness, is observing what has already taken place, and you see yourself "going through the motions." Perhaps there is a lag because the main part of your body goes into flight mode as you endanger your life. Just a theoretical example though of what I understood to be the main concept behind your theory.