Are you and your brain 2 separate beings? Any ideas how to conquer the brain?

[Anonymous]

For me that feels like it is the case despite being one and the same body. Basically it goes like this.

Me: I love girls, they are so nice.

Brain: They want your money!

Me: Shut up brain! It's not true and you know it.

Brain: It's not my fault you kept watching so many gold digger videos. I am reflecting what you were doing.

Me: (raises both palms before my head) OK, fair enough, there's no denying in that. But please enough is enough already. Besides there were girls, who weren't impressed by expensive cars and gifts and they kept being with the same guy.

Brain: Hah! We'll see about that. Get a girlfriend and prove me wrong. Then maybe I will give it a rest.

Me: 😓 If only it was so easy and you're driving a hard bargain.

Brain: It's a fair deal. Just think about it and get motivated. Show me they're not interested in your money and i will reconsider what I'll give you as random thoughts.

So yeah, obviously i will not tell girls nor a girlfriend, that this is what goes on in my head. It will scare them away, they'll think, that i think, that they are gold diggers and that will just make them fume of anger and it's generally not nice to hear about it. I'm better than that. Unless she's really open minded, understanding, very curious and/or a psychotherapist. I'm probably a bit crazy but aren't we all?

Yeah, me and my brain are 2 different beings

Sometimes

No

What do you mean? I don't understand.

Other

[genericname85]

Freud describes it in it's basic structure of the human psyche. when people say "you" or "i" what they usualy refer to is "the ego".

so there's the "Id", the "ego" and the "super ego" they can communicate between each other but there's a hierarchy.

the Id controlls all the subconscious processes in your body. like bowel movement, heart beat, breath and so on. the ego has a very limited influence on these functions. and even by undergoing extensive training, you can never disable the "system override" power that your Id has. that's why you can not kill yourself by holding your breath. the ID consists of your centrail nervous system and certain parts of your brain. hover your brain is the "supervising" part in that relationship.

the ego is basically a problem solving software that runs on your brain which has grown so complex and sophisticated in evolution that it developed a self awareness. your super ego is actually a sub function of your ego.

the super ego is an extended form of empathy that allows you to look at yourself as if you were another person and that allows you to derive morality from that perspective. i personally thin that it's that exact thing that people mean when they say "god". it's actually not in anyway superhuman or interconnected beteen all humans. it's still just a function of the individual brain.

tl;dr "you" is something that your brain does. so it's not separate things, cause your ego can not work without your brain. that's like trying to run windows without a computer.

[Asker]

This is interesting. I start to understand when some say " your mind and spirit " although probably not in the manner they mean but i feel like it is a subtype of it. Survival System override is a pretty accurate way to describe survival instincts we do out of our control while jumping of skyscrapers or airplanes are voluntary choices.

[genericname85]

you can actually consciously experience your ID through meditation. you can sort of "disable" your ego for some time by letting it run pointless tasks over and over or by just not following. for me personally it worked by observing every thought that my mind had with a sort of bystander perspective. like a commentator analyzing someone elses thought one after the other. after a while my ego sort of calmed down and did nothing. i experienced the ID sort of like "someone or something else" that resides within that was super powerfull.

the word "spiritual" by the way comes from a very ancient missunderstanding of how air interacts with our body. people could observe that those that would breathe would be "living" and those that didn't were dead. so they thought what makes you who you are enters through breath. hence "spirit" (which is litterally tranlated "air"). that's even reflected in the christian (and others) creation myth. you know the part where god breathed into a lump of dirt and thus made the first human come alive.
nowadays we know that breathing is just basically how our bodies "engine" works. breathing is just our exhaust system. fun fact: all the energy that your body has used leaves your body through breath. piss and shit is litterally just the stuff that your body did not actually end up using for power generation. sort of blew my mind when i learned that.

[Asker]

This is crazy. How did you learn all that?
Fortunately society is progressing regarding mental health, although it seems we still have a long way to go. I suppose people fear that what they don't know. I spoke today with someone, who prescribes me my psychic meds and I asked him the same question. He mentioned as a doctor he would describe it that the brain is an organ like any other attached to our body and performing it's functions and that it's nothing out of the ordinary to feel weird or crazy about perceiving, that our mind can be distinct from what we are.

[genericname85]

I wouldn't describe it as distinct from what i am. It's a part of me. Though your ego I'm most cases actually comprise if a bunch of different character programs. Programs that you learned in reaction to problems that you had to solve and those programs can sometimes interfere with a healthy life where the specific problem it's next to solve is not given.

By the way i personally consider psychologists who just throw pills at you too be inferior. Pills don't fix problems. They suppress the symptoms of the problems and give you the illusion that the problem is fine when it very much is still there.

[genericname85]

Sorry for my uncooperative Auto correct.

[genericname85]

*where the specific problem it's trying to solve is not given

[Guy13]

Being is made up of Soul, Mind, and Body. The Mind is the mechanical machine or CPU if you will please. The Soul or Intellect as some philosophers prefer is the Controlling Agent can Intellect enters Mind and is expressed in, by, and through Body.

Ultimately, what you are feeding your Soul is the utmost importance

[Vanidal]

My brain informs me of things.
Am I my brain? Am I the accumulation of those information or an observer of them?
I cut a bit part of my brain and become crazy.
Am I behave crazily because I am crazy or because it influences me to be crazy?
I do not know what 'I' is.
I do not know where 'I' is.
It seems here. But can't it only be connected to this world through it's connection to the brain?

[NamerOfStars]

I can answer that in two sentences:

Vrei să pleci dar nu mă, nu mă iei,
Nu mă, nu mă iei, nu mă, nu mă, nu mă iei.
Chipul tău și dragostea din tei,
Mi-amintesc de ochii tăi.

Do you think YOU want to have that stuck in your head? Of course not. But your brain does.

[Tyrael]

No you're not separate beings, but what you put in is what you'll get out. If you spend all day watching videos of a certain nature, that will begin to affect the way you think and eventually the way you behave.

Bring some more positivity into your life.

[acooke-13]

I think your body and brain are kind of different. Obviously your brain has a lot to do with what the body does and feels.

[Anonymous]

I like to think of the brain as the hardware and the mind as the software. It sounds more like you're struggling with insecurity or trust. Appears to be morre so grappling with yourself and what you want vs your views on those subjects

[Lynx122]

Maybe you have autism lol. I don't have this kind of conversation but I know what you mean :)

[jimmy2]

Man the first vave of COVID 19 sure screw me. My half right brain would hurt now I have spinal cord twitching and now my lower back is messed up
Be careful what you ask in life

[Imsmurter1]

Yeah my brain goes to sleep when I want to keep being awake sometimes.

[exitseven]

Yes, often guys think with their little head.

[AngryCarl]

No, I am my brain. You are your brain.

[Anonymous]

Difference between logic and emotion