posit the existence of a higher self outside of linear time, to which there's little diff. btwn ur past & future; when you do smth so that you don't "regret it later", that's your higher self effecting a single superegoic action, retrocausally ensuring time coherency of ur goals
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RT @chaosprime
like it could easily be that everyone having their lives trashed by OCD right now is experiencing that because in 50 million years, one dista…
https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1398300287035658241
some cosmologies reify this self, but imo it works equally well, if not better, as a virtual hyperobject, a retro-emergent system, forming a self-perpetuating feedback loop w/ your corporeal form. that's what a superego is; the retrocausal distillation of ur essence into an agent
the phenomenology thereof
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RT @pee_zombie
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
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1379600906128343041
superego as a low-priority virtual hyperthreaded cognitive process
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RT @pee_zombie
the superego is that which is above greedy optimization, the function which expresses our highest-level needs. it is never fully reified besides in our rare moments of self-actualization, the glimpses we get of the infinite; our task is to shorten the period between these
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1328476765392678915