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We process things by telling ourselves stories, but what happens when we consume things with no need for imagination? Whatβs happening with our brains when we even commodify our memories, the way we store them, the way we share them, our connection with language, images, and ourselves?
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π«The thing that constitutes the "I" that you are is just patterns of ideas and thoughts and behaviors in the form of electrical / chemical impulses in a brain. You spend your whole life transmitting those patterns to the people around you by communicating with them. When someone "gets to know you" they are building a simulation of you in their mind. The more time you spend communicating and observing each other, the higher fidelity that simulation becomes. Importantly, there is no true difference in "kind" between the patterns-and-thoughts-and-behaviors you hold in YOUR brain and call "I" and the patterns-and-thoughts-and-behaviors others hold in THEIR brain and give YOUR name. It's not a perfect copy, but it's also not NOT a true version of YOU. That means when you die, you *literally live on* as a distributed simulation inside the brains of everyone who ever met you and came to know and love you.
(This is my poor paraphrase. Check the link for relevant excerpts)
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