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So if the Self receives Volition or Intention from somewhere else then where is that somewhere else? What is generating our Volitional urges? My answer, all your predispositions, unconscious biases, behaviour patterns, personality traits, etc. All of that is beyond your control and determines the c...

Because this is the way it appears to me. I do not sense that I am just a passive Observer of my Volition. You could be right but I don't see it. Maybe you believe you have given all the possible evidence, for lets call it Zombie Volition, but I am not yet convinced. I’ll put it another way, voliti...

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 5:45 pm

SteveKlinko wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 2:25 pm lets call it Zombie Volition

If you are not convinced, then what word would you like to use instead of 'Zombie' ?

I think passive is a good word.

Speaking words is an immensely complicated coordination of Mouth Muscles and Lung Control. It would be virtually impossible to Speak if we had to be Conscious of every Muscle movement that was needed. We all have hundreds, maybe thousands of little Mind Programs that can be executed when our Voliti...

When awareness is looking as the body, it takes responsibility or ownership of the actions of the body. Look at it this way. When you perform a rote (well rehearsed task) you feel like you are doing it. But, you don’t have to think about the individual actions right? So, what’s really going on is, ...

In some sense “you” produce the action. But in a trivial way, because “you” are merely there, the “observer” of it all, all things pass through you, but you are passively watching. Now, when an action happens, the person “you” think you are, actually recedes, and action just happens, in a flow like...

I just thought of something. I am Volition. Being Aware is good. But without Volition you might as well be nothing. I think of it a different way. Action happens through us. We are awareness (or consciousness if you like). Consciousness “drives” action (I.e. sense leads to response, in a reflex lik...

Dimebag wrote: Have you ever noticed, that your wife tells you, “you are a different person around your friends”? That’s because, you actually are. Your identity informs the way you act, what is appropriate and what’s not, things you can and can’t say. Even the way you speak, including accents, or ...

It’s true that there is only one “I”, there is no other, but, the actual “I” or awareness, can merge, or can remain attached to its contents. For that reason, this affects awareness’s own understanding of itself, or in other words, it’s identity. But identity is like a tree like structure in the min...

henry quirk wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 3:51 pm

AlexW wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 4:25 am

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 3:52 am
First round on me.

Now you're talking

g & t, bit of lime: I'm good to go

or beer...lots of beer

let's go, gentlemen

Well that’s one way to lose your self

Everything is not all in our Heads. Our Brain/Mind creates the reality that we Experience out of Surrogate materials of Mind Stuff, so we can Detect the External World. Maybe I missed something, but do you deny the existence of an external Physical World? This is how the higher function of the orga...

I can see language is very important to you, Well, only here, because it's the only way you and I can share ideas at the moment. It's really all we have. ...but you seem to think that the logic of language defines the reality of the brain and human existence. No, I don't think that. But I do think ...

Is it a thinking thing, or, do thoughts happen in it? "In" what? :shock: What is this "it" of which you speak? "It" must be a thing, because "it" is grammatically just a pronoun, and every pronoun holds the place of a particular proper noun. What's the proper noun you mean when you say "it"? You se...

I expect you mean deep dreamless sleep. Some dreams contain self awareness, some don't. There is no self in a dream. The self arises as a conceptual idea, which is emptiness appearing full. . I understand Dimebag's description of the self without ego self. Once, briefly, I lost my ego self and foun...

Skepdick wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:01 am

Dimebag wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:42 am Where you look from IS what you are, awareness, everything else plays on its surface.

There are many things which are awareness that are not me, therefore I am not awareness.

I don't know what I am. I only know that I am.

Maybe, but do they appear IN awareness?