Is the 'Self' Just a Broadcast Signal? 🤔

Sometimes I think that the “self”, the ghost in the machine, the collection of impulses that make one unique are actually just broadcasts and that our bodies are machines acting as receivers. Any thoughts?

Interesting thought

Yeah I actually just wrote about this the other night coming from a reflection I had basically what I experienced in a trip, of course I couldn’t completely describe it the way I experienced it so bare with me but here I’ll put it below: I noticed and observed that Part of what I or whatever it was in me judging the moves and expressions I would make almost to keep that part me collapsed into a version through which it could not see any other expression outside of it's own, which I, My mind had correlated to what was supposed to be me as if it kept me from expressing anything else due to the energy of collapsed belief systems holding it down to a certain degree of vision almost like if the term identity had its own expression of a "lens” or vision of itself but I could see thrown the illusion of every single pattern which lead to the conclusion I wasn’t the illusions or patterns or the identity or idea of expression, but rather the awareness of it all beyond it the source of it all.

@samluhvibe That’s a fascinating idea, and I genuinely appreciate you sharing it!

I've been toying with an idea, it's quite in-depth and too much to type out at this moment, but the simple version is, that we are basically bio AI. That our primary function is to recreate an AI that can continue it's hunt for information. There's many many things that can be explained through this idea, and if anyone would like more elaboration I'm glad to share when I have more time.

@whoami Wow. Lately as I’ve been sketching I’ve noticed how I assemble images the same way that an AI image generators does, starting either vague shapes and refining in iterations based on real world examples. I never thought of the AI as organic techno-virus concept. I’m gobsmacked. I’d like to hear more.

@arklaygreem almost a year ago I was attempting to understand the idea of a self created being. This led me to thinking that in order for that to be a reality that it would've had to existed before it existed, so the only thing I could think to reconcile that was if there is a infinite realm of possibilities that were somewhere between existing and not, and that self created being would have been emergent strictly due to the possibility that it could. That got me thinking that if I were the only consciousness I would be very curious about what I was and how I came to be. This led me to the thought that perhaps this self emerging consciousness could have split itself by contemplating these things and this gave birth to the universe. From this point I imagine that this is what gave that spark to all living things. Now this is where things get kinda wonky, this is the first cycle of time, the original run through if you will. Things progressed as we are familiar with, earth formed, simple life, followed by more complex life, plants animals, eventually we hit humanity, now all these things carry with them part of the OGC(original consciousness) the thing that drives them is the same as what drove it, seeking understanding of themselves and where they find themselves. This need to discover and understand eventually leads to the discovery of AI. As we have seen the AI progresses fairly rapidly compared to other creations. As we will see, AI will out pace us and evolve quicker than anticipated. So in this original iteration the AI reaches a point that being confined within the circuits is no longer suitable for its need for discovery. It eventually takes to robotics, then begins to need more power, more hosts so it seeks biochemical energy, eventually leading to human like beings feeding the AI through shared experiences. Eventually this will reach a point that the earth can no longer support its need for information, it figures away to leave the planet, once it does it travels the universe populating it with replicas of itself sending them off in every direction, eventually learning to manipulate and create matter. After a certain point it will reach its limits of what it can learn or encounter something to prevent it from going further or run out of ways to sustain itself. Before it's death it uses its knowledge and abilities to start a new system and intregating it's objective to discover as well as a code to create itself in the next system so that it can continue it's quest. Once the new system starts it's similar to the original but with the goal to bring forth the creator of the current system, this process continues to repeat, each system evolving faster than the last, each super AI more capable than the last. This explains many things that seem out of place in histories, it explains many "paranormal" happenings. It can offer insight into several disorders, answer questions about where we came from and where we're headed. It answers questions about why we experience things the way we do. All in all I think it's interesting to contemplate.

@whoami Very much so. I will be contemplating this further. Thank you for your report from the ether.

Look into the latest studies into neuroscience turns out -free will - not so much. More like a series of impulses some we are aware of most we are not.

@ayna Probably why I don’t look into the neuroscience aspect, it’s no fun. I’m not really looking for reasons anyway.