My Subconscious Is a Better Developer Than I Am
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My Subconscious Is a Better Developer Than I Am
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#2>There's 2 of me.
I would argue this is the line of thinking that makes us miserable throughout our lives. Associating 'me' with nobler instincts and pushing off all the undesirable traits to the 'other me that's not me' , the other me that needs to be constantly repressed via dieting, meditation, mindfulness,empathy training, zoloft, CBT ect. And of course none of these things actually work in any meaningful way because they are built on false premise of 'two of me'.
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#3Totally experience the same phenomenon.
When I write proofs I experience it even more, there is a voice in my head (one that I do not identify as being 'me' and is virtually a black box) that directs me. I often have no idea where it is going as I am writing down statements, but it never fails to produce good results.
Reminds me a little of Socrate's voice.
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#4Glad to see I'm not the only one to feel like this!
Sometimes when I'm working on something really hard I purposely go to sleep in order to keep thinking about the issue in my half-sleep, when the limit between conscious and unconscious thought starts to fade.
Then more often than not I wake up with an uncontrollable urge to implement a crazy solution that often happens to work.
I believe the credit is still mine, and the mind works in mysterious ways.
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#5>There's 2 of me. I would argue this is the line of thinking that makes us miserable throughout our lives. Associating 'me' with nobler instincts and pushing off all the undesirable traits to the 'other me that's not me' , the other me that needs to be constantly repressed via dieting, meditation, mindfulness,empathy training, zoloft, CBT ect. And of course none of these things actually work in any meaningful way bec…
you're grouping a lot of things together there you seem to not know much about. some of them are actually supposed to combat the internal conflict you're referring to, like meditation. also seriously? CBT and mindfulness being compared to zoloft? you do know those things are just paying attention to your own thoughts right? try it sometime before making posts without researching what you're talking about. also how do you define "works"? what would constitute them "working"? if >X% of people report feeling better subjectively? I'm pretty sure the percentage is fairly high for most of those for the people who need them
and really it'd be more accurate to say there are three of us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain
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#6I've gotten to the point where I use this intentionally. I usually think of it as being the beneficiary of some pretty good hardware that just happens to live in the same skull as me.
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#7Personally I find when I run into an intractable problem, what works for me is to exercise. For me that is riding my bike on quite paths. It sets my mind free and increases blood flow. Fertile ground for solving problems.
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#8>There's 2 of me. I would argue this is the line of thinking that makes us miserable throughout our lives. Associating 'me' with nobler instincts and pushing off all the undesirable traits to the 'other me that's not me' , the other me that needs to be constantly repressed via dieting, meditation, mindfulness,empathy training, zoloft, CBT ect. And of course none of these things actually work in any meaningful way bec…
you're grouping a lot of things together there you seem to not know much about. some of them are actually supposed to combat the internal conflict you're referring to, like meditation. also seriously? CBT and mindfulness being compared to zoloft? you do know those things are just paying attention to your own thoughts right? try it sometime before making posts without researching what you're talking about. also how do…
Personally I find serotonin reuptake inhibitors to be a great help solving some class of issues.
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#9look up hammock driven development on youtube by that clojure guy. covers this in depth
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#10Sometimes I wonder if I actually consist of multiple consciousnesses at the same time, all wondering what the heck the others are doing. And I don't mean that in a pathological way.