I think I know of the trick you are talking about, in that there does seem to be an obvious pseudoprediction place in my mind that interfaces with motor output, and it’s obviously different from actually believing, or trying to believe. However I mostly can’t manage more than twitches or smaller motor movements, and it gets harder the more resistant I am to doing it (thus, less useful the more I would need use of it). If I’m thinking of the right thing, then the failure of me to sometimes send the pseudoprediction to my muscles seems to be the cause of some various stuff I experience when I essentially can’t get myself to do certain things (e.g. get out of bed) (going by how people react to my more detailed descriptions this phenomena appears to be something very unusual about me).
It feels to me like the same sort of “prediction” as my Inner Sim that visualizes what happens when I throw a ball at the wall—it’s clearly distinct from what “I” believe.
I separately also have experienced the thing where I think the script says I ought to feel X and so I feel X, but that feels totally different to me. Possible exception: I recently (for completely unrelated reasons) had a panic attack (which are very rare for current me), and for a while after the big spike I would get close to having it again partially due to what might have been having that sort of pseudo expectation of the hyperventilating and then accidentally causing it to actually happen, which would then threaten to launch me back into the panic attack. This might secretly be how the script thing works, though it doesn’t feel like it to me.
I think I know of the trick you are talking about, in that there does seem to be an obvious pseudoprediction place in my mind that interfaces with motor output, and it’s obviously different from actually believing, or trying to believe. However I mostly can’t manage more than twitches or smaller motor movements, and it gets harder the more resistant I am to doing it (thus, less useful the more I would need use of it). If I’m thinking of the right thing, then the failure of me to sometimes send the pseudoprediction to my muscles seems to be the cause of some various stuff I experience when I essentially can’t get myself to do certain things (e.g. get out of bed) (going by how people react to my more detailed descriptions this phenomena appears to be something very unusual about me).
It feels to me like the same sort of “prediction” as my Inner Sim that visualizes what happens when I throw a ball at the wall—it’s clearly distinct from what “I” believe.
I separately also have experienced the thing where I think the script says I ought to feel X and so I feel X, but that feels totally different to me. Possible exception: I recently (for completely unrelated reasons) had a panic attack (which are very rare for current me), and for a while after the big spike I would get close to having it again partially due to what might have been having that sort of pseudo expectation of the hyperventilating and then accidentally causing it to actually happen, which would then threaten to launch me back into the panic attack. This might secretly be how the script thing works, though it doesn’t feel like it to me.