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Re:What if consciousness is not what drives the human mind? by sdfin on Sunday November 26, 2017 @02:14PM (#15782452)
Another section of the article for a TLDR: "we don’t consciously choose our thoughts or our feelings – we become aware of them."

> My consciousness prefers to think that it is the one in control, and any suggestion to the contrary makes my consciousness uncomfortable.

Maybe you should rather say "My awarenes is aware of thoughts about myself being the one in control, and it is also aware of feelings of discomfort that accompany ideas about myself not being the one in control".

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Re:What if consciousness is not what drives the human mind? by red75prime on Sunday November 26, 2017 @03:51PM (#15782922)
What do we achieve by adding all those words? I observe that my body is usually acts as if controlled by a single goal-directed agent. I call this agent I. It doesn't matter if we can single-out some useless subsystem and call it "ride-along consciousness" or "real I" or something.
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