DBT
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Ultimately there is no separation between the state of the brain and the state of self. These being one and the same. Whatever you think you are doing, it is the brain that is generating that experience of you distinguishing yourself from the brain. Brains form self identity, learn language and experience the world as someone called 'Fast' who posts on TFT.
What I'm saying is found in your own words. You said the brain generates experience and brains form self identity.
Do brains generate brains? No. You're not saying that. They generate the same thing, a brain? Again, no. You said brains generate something else. There is something else (other than the brain) that the brain generates. What? You said experience. Okay, so what's the problem? I'm not denying the necessary condition of the brain. I agree, no brain, then no experience. But you, you want, you want to deny distinction. It's not called experience surgery; it's called brain surgery, and if you operated on the brain, you could affect that which it generates, but it's that which it (it) generates.
Ah, but what brains generate is not separate from the brain despite the apparent differences in the quality of the things being generated (sight, sound, etc). The ability to experience is built into the very fabric and architecture of a brain, it's evolved role and purpose being to experience the world and self, to respond to the world through the means of a conscious self.