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some collected thoughts on ego
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thinking about how the sunk cost fallacy is a manifestation of the Buddhist illusion of self, & solution being non-attachment. its caused by scarcity mindset re: time/energy, & ego's desire to protect itself & justify its decisions, garnering further investment from the superego
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1328476762435690500
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egos (and make no mistake, that word is I inherently a plural) are myriad in your society of mind; the self driving at any given time is incentivized to believe its the entirety, the full manifestation of the contents of your mind
but this is not so
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1379600909316022275?t=jt9FDvub45km_U2uFXOjYg&s=19
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1483606043863179266
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our egos, our illusions of a coherent Self, are highly sticky metaframes; pervading everything, they shape every thought, relate all back to this self-concept. this is done for good reason, namely that it's a powerful heuristic & saves energy; but the attractor is hard to escape.
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1435840064139956227
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load-bearing beliefs tend to be rather sticky, being metastable cognitive attractors; the problem arises when they no longer have the same utility they once did, becoming parasitic psychic constructs, preventing us from seeing the new reality clearly
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1327110847475408896?s=19
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1414093332918292480
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when you think this way, you put yourself into a mental cage, you voluntarily constrict your possibilities to avoid a specific type of pain you've experienced in the past. if you see your partner as an extension of yourself, the possibility of them leaving entails an emergency
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1342237488048463873