Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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You own your brain in the same sense that you own modern devices, you own it but also can't really modify it and there is some closed source shit that really control it (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Make our brains FOSS! Why can't I just tell my brain that now is sleeping time and it will just sleep?!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What does it even mean to say "I own my brain"? What is this "I" that's doing the owning?

From my point of view it just seems like brain exists and that brain is having a subjective experience. The sense of self is just one of those experiences. It's not real - there's no self located within the brain. Atleast not that we know of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

That’s what my man the Buddha was saying 25 odd centuries ago. Yet here we are