• @RangerAndTheCat@lemmy.world
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    231 year ago

    One of my favorite quotes about this subject:

    “Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of. How simple that is to say; how difficult to appreciate! It is like asking a flashlight in a dark room to search around for something that does not have any light shining upon it. The flashlight, since there is light in whatever direction it turns, would have to conclude that there is light everywhere. And so consciousness can seem to pervade all mentality when actually it does not.”

    -Julian Jaynes

    The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

    • this_is_router
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      51 year ago

      I think another good analogie is the human eye. Only the center has high resolution, everything around it is rather shitty, but you never realize that, because the stuff you focus on is always in the center.

      Try to look at your self into your eyes the mirror while you are not looking at yourself :)

    • kase
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      21 year ago

      kinda unrelated, but this reminds me of the You Are Two video by cgp grey