You As a Node in the Network

A Network Designer is often designing the system that they are contained within - a node in the network.

What is a Self? Besides a network of neurons.

You are a Node. A whole. One theory of what a self is is an integrator (Some like Peter Diamdis would say we are entering a new renniassance – an age of Integrators)

In integrating things in the world if we make things part of ourselves, this makes them highly salient. In knitting these things together in ourselves we are knitting these things together in the world.

One theory of what happens in a “higher state” is that the cognitive machinery and energy that is typically devoted to self-monitoring and self-pre-occupation is fed onto the world. And the world as a result is positively luminous. Quote of William Blake – to see the world in a grain of sand”

Not only does it seem luminous in a “higher state” but there is a quality that the Greeks called Logos or Iedos that seems to leap into our minds. It is the Gestalt or pattern of a thing. The functional/structural schematic.

See through the case of Mistaken Identification.

1. The “Self” we can point to and identify with is not Self 2. Self 2 has no observable characteristics so we cannot actually attach to it.
2. Idnetifying with Self 1 is how we play the game of Life. It is the original Avatar.
3. (and how we create unnecessary suffering- cut through the gordian knot of this self. Grab old writing on this?)
4. The self we can point to is part and product of a network.
  1. We seek to know the perspective to/from that network address.
  2. 95% of your behavior absorbed from those around you. But culled by observation as to what is effective.
    1. When your worldview appears to be winning, when your memes appear to be winning you think your way of thinking is right.
    2. In this way we all tend to some sort of Might makes wrong along with Normalcy bias that says because things are “this way”, they likely will stay this way and even “should be” this way as this is the natural way of things. In this way, we come to mistake our thinking for “the way things are”