I seem to have taken step #3 in the other direction. The bundle of desires, urges, and subconscious cognition that makes me feel things is “me”, while that running voice in my head that wonders about why I feel what I feel, is, well, just a running voice in my head doing some analysis, but with no power to affect much of anything. My mind has basically never been able to overrule the parts of the brain that feel like “me”, which gives my parents no end of frustration, as they repeatedly insist that people have to learn to do things they don’t want, while I’ve endured 26 years without having learned how to do that. I reflect, sometimes, but my reflection is completely impotent when it comes to changing behaviors. In fact, the only effect I ever see of my reflection is that, practically every time I start reflecting, I become miserable, so I actively try to avoid it whenever possible, drowning my mind in video games and other people’s writings in an attempt to keep my mind from dwelling on my inner self.
So, yeah, I identify with my limbic system and not my frontal cortex (or whatever the correct names for the relevant parts of the brain are).
I seem to have taken step #3 in the other direction. The bundle of desires, urges, and subconscious cognition that makes me feel things is “me”, while that running voice in my head that wonders about why I feel what I feel, is, well, just a running voice in my head doing some analysis, but with no power to affect much of anything. My mind has basically never been able to overrule the parts of the brain that feel like “me”, which gives my parents no end of frustration, as they repeatedly insist that people have to learn to do things they don’t want, while I’ve endured 26 years without having learned how to do that. I reflect, sometimes, but my reflection is completely impotent when it comes to changing behaviors. In fact, the only effect I ever see of my reflection is that, practically every time I start reflecting, I become miserable, so I actively try to avoid it whenever possible, drowning my mind in video games and other people’s writings in an attempt to keep my mind from dwelling on my inner self.
So, yeah, I identify with my limbic system and not my frontal cortex (or whatever the correct names for the relevant parts of the brain are).
Is this bad?