sometimes I feel like I'm not really conscious for weeks straight, just going thru life, doin my thing, not reevaluating top level goals, continuing on the same course of action
then once in a while I "come up for air", when journaling or on a long walk
suspect others do too
there isn't really anything wrong with this either, even tho part of me insists it's somehow bad to not always be conscious
I think of it sort of like my conscious self is not the day-to-day worker, but the turn-based strategy game player, putting in actions and then waiting
this isn't particularly novel, as this concept maps to that of the superego, & a few others
just kind of wild to occasionally realize I hadn't "been" a certain person in a long time
this lends credence to the idea that our various selves are just conceptual activation patterns
how you're a different person at work, with various groups of friends, family, alone, etc
different subsets of your conceptual clusters are active in each situation
considering concepts & beliefs are the summations of memory chains, this makes sense, as memories are scoped
an embarrassing memory you only access in the presence of college friends is going to have a stronger effect on you when you're with them, versus when you're with people who never knew that version of you
our selves are comprised of relationships with models of other people
I wonder sometimes, if I've ever met certain people's conscious, top level selves, or just their daily driver
how to tell which is the case? do first impressions tend to be formed from the latter? is the former only possible after a deeper connection emerges?
drugs affect this
when you meet/interact with someone early on with the involvement of certain types of drugs, you're meeting a very different version of them than their typical self
in certain situations, this can lead to your superegos meeting each other much earlier than would otherwise happen
I wonder if this effect influences the types of relationships that form in various venues, such as colleges and raves
also churches, which actively seek to encourage contemplation, which surfaces the superego, done properly
are we missing a cultural practice for this?
when a person is no longer really part of your life, it is not very useful to surface the self aspect embedded in your relationship with them
but if they come back into your life, this resurfaces, in the form of old dynamics
this is why family visits can be so difficult