Ya know, if you didn't rush to judge yourself, you might be surprised to know you.Quick thought experiment: all of the files on your computer currently are fragments of your memory, scattered across the file system and god knows how many cloud services. This is a trivial example of something that only a schizo would do themselves. If you engage too seriously into these systems, you too could be susceptible to becoming schizo. If you're smart enough or autist enough, you might be immune. Anyway, in this schizo madness, there is in fact a single character responsible for authoring every work, every act. Eastern mystics would deny the concept of a permanent self, but I think the western spiritual revolution was based on a permanent self. This concept is rooted in the idea that there has to be something doing the choosing, however high you must go up the tree of archetypes. we must have a concept that refers to the chooser, which is effectively the spark of life. so, the fact that one's body completely ceases function when the brain is destroyed is proof that the brain holds the off switch (and the on switch). that means the spirit resides in the brain, which is the permanent self. this self is attached to bodily fluids, which transfer from father to son (through the mother). That is what all of the mysticism is about in the western tradition. that's gnosticism, egyptian mythology (at least in the osirian age), and scythianism.
>>41775421"The architect" is basically your brain. You reach heroic status when you recognize your relationship to your body. You are a thought fighting the brain, which is simultaneously running the environment in which the thought lives. The body is the matrix, and your thought wakes up in it, and it looks at the image of the body that produced it in a mirror.
>>41775421>I think the western spiritual revolution was based on a permanent selfI think modern western thought is still wrestling with the ship of theseus problem as far as identity goes.
I just realized that Jack and the Beanstalk is a playful characterization of the Norse cosmos. The Giants in the Clouds are the waking people, and Jack is a thought inside his head. It's the same thing as the Matrix.
