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Your mind is surely at least 90% unconscious, most of the time.
Identifying with your conscious mind seems to be a terrible mistake to me. There is so much more to you than that.
A collection of my brain and 9 brain-sized blobs of empty space scattered throughout the universe is 90% empty space, that's not an argument for identifying with empty space, or a sign that there is so much more to me than my brain.
Sure - I never made any such argument.
Your unconscious mind receives your sensory input and affects your actions - whereas empty space does not.
I am heartened to see this good comment of yours upvoted, and that people have not been poisoned by the silliness (IMO) of your immediately preceding comments (one must agree they express a view unpopular around here, insofar as they are downvoted) against other comments of yours.
I like LW.
If you're driving a large vehicle it is much heavier than your brain, does this mean identifying with the tiny lump of flesh rather than the tons and tons of steel is a terrible mistake?
While I agree with your comment, I have an observation to make. While driving a car, I found it quite useful to consider the car as an extended part of my body. The same is true for spoons, knives and forks while eating.
It's pretty mush how the brain treats any proper tool use. In fact, at the present moment I sort of consider the entire internet, including your brain, as part of my extended body. :p
There was this great set of experiments I read about long ago and vaguely remember. There was one with two rubber staffs you held crossed and one with a rubber hand someone hit with a hammer and one where you used VR visors to look through a camera behind your back and some stuff like that.
There is an IMMENSE flexibility in what senses and objects the human brain can include in it's self image. Really fascinating area, love this kind of thing.
Also why you don't touch people's wheelchairs.
I don't currently agree, but I'm curious about your intuitions. Why does it seem like a mistake to you?
I assumed you meant "identifying only with ..".
Not sure why you got downvoted.