There is no actual “you” in the way that it seems to be. A persistent thought pattern / meme complex got mistaken for a “you” by awareness and, sooner or later, awareness can see through the “you”, which is a tremendous relief when it occurs.
As Einstein put it. . .
As Julian Jaynes put it:
″...this space of consciousness inside our own heads. We also assume it is there in others’. In talking with a friend, maintaining periodic eye-to-eye contact, we are always assuming a space behind our companion’s eyes into which we are talking, similar to the space we imagine inside our own heads where we are talking from.
And this is the very heartbeat of the matter. For we all know perfectly well that there is no such space inside anyone’s head at all! There is nothing inside my head or yours except a physiological tissue of one sort or another. And the fact that it is predominantly neurological tissue is irrelevant.”
There is no actual “you” in the way that it seems to be. A persistent thought pattern / meme complex got mistaken for a “you” by awareness and, sooner or later, awareness can see through the “you”, which is a tremendous relief when it occurs.
As Einstein put it. . .
As Julian Jaynes put it:
″...this space of consciousness inside our own heads. We also assume it is there in others’. In talking with a friend, maintaining periodic eye-to-eye contact, we are always assuming a space behind our companion’s eyes into which we are talking, similar to the space we imagine inside our own heads where we are talking from.
And this is the very heartbeat of the matter. For we all know perfectly well that there is no such space inside anyone’s head at all! There is nothing inside my head or yours except a physiological tissue of one sort or another. And the fact that it is predominantly neurological tissue is irrelevant.”