Comments on: Rethinking the self

By: Kanye West, Media Cyborg « Snarkmarket

Kanye West, Media Cyborg « Snarkmarket — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:45:15 +0000

[…] it ought to be. We’re already pretty sure that the mind is not a single coherent will but rather a chaotic committee whose deliberations get smoothed out into the thing we call consciousness or identity or whatever. […]

By: The outboard brain « Snarkmarket

The outboard brain « Snarkmarket — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:59:29 +0000

[…] old references on brain science (for reasons that will become evident in time), I found this post from last year, about the committee of the self, with some ace comments from Andrew, Tim, […]

By: Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:31:20 +0000

Yeah, when I do click through, it is in a mad information synthesizing fury. My vision literally blurs. I can’t see the browser address bar, can’t see the blog header. Everything’s covered in a red mist.

By: Tim Carmody

Tim Carmody — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:08:11 +0000

Dude, I can’t believe you didn’t know about Jonah Lehrer’s blog. I link to it in my Snarkmarket posts something like once a week. If you count Twitter, it’s easily more.

(Sniff) Robin doesn’t read… (Sniff!) my links… (Honk!)

(more likely, he doesn’t pay attention to where I’m sending him)

By: Saheli

Saheli — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:06:05 +0000

Oh man, I can’t believe I actually remembered what the brain characters looked like.

By: Rod

Rod — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:57:07 +0000

So, let me get this straight… it’s like Herman’s Head?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE489rs0fPA

By: Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:01:45 +0000

Word. Didn’t even know about it. RSS’d.

By: Tim Carmody

Tim Carmody — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:38:38 +0000

PS - if you're looking for a slightly more smarty-pants distillation of current brain and neuroscience research -- and really, even if you're not -- you have GOT to be reading Jonah Lehrer's blog The Frontal Cortex. It's consistently among my five or six must-reads.

By: Saheli

Saheli — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:39:30 +0000

Though a notable exception: in my *religion,* lots of Personalities have multitudes of aspects/personae that “hang out with each other” and it’s anything but unappealing.

Also, I seem to have screwed up the threading. This was in response to Penniman.

By: Saheli

Saheli — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:37:55 +0000

I think the key to downgrading innate cultural hostility to people perceiving themselves as a multitude is discussing a variety of relationships within that particular multitude. I vehemently resist thinking of myself as multiple people partially because when I encounter others (in real life and in art) who present themselves as that, the personae seem to either be incoherently switching places, actively hostile to each other, invoked for the sake of blame, or all three. The main exception is talking to one’s past (“a letter to my 13-year old self”), a frequent trope on TV shows too. It’s very rare for alternate personalities to be seen as getting along and hanging out and harmonizing. (There was that cheezy show about the inside of someone’s brain, I guess.)