You're the only man that can soothe my mental distress and moral injuries, Dr McLaren. My goodness our world is cruellest to the most well-intentioned, sincere and honest. When I think I can't go on, I turn to your teachings and example and recall the persecution of Jesus Christ. God my life has been hellish and it shows few signs of easing. God Bless you.
Dr McLaren another interesting "screenshot" ÃŪn words on what is psychiatric treatment, its false claims, its abuse and the urgency to find a human way to really help when we our minds are not tune enough.. Of course bettering socio economical situation of "patients" instead of bettering the socio economic situation of psychiatrist, pharma owners, and a few dots more has never been put in practice as it may recover from "mental health problems" too many... Thank you for sharing your knowledge and understanding... You are a great soul!! ðĨðð
I agree that the inner voice is not the primary cause of intentional action, that something deeper, more basic, motivates us to act, and is only reflected by our inner voice/thought/idea. What is the cause of the thoughts that arise, how can we explain them.
I recently wrote this:
Consciousness is intrinsically a reflexive multiplicity, not logically self-sufficient (this point I argued elsewhere), where every instance of consciousness - a point of view embedded in the narrative continuity of events - continuously attempts to conceive of itself in relation to others, but in doing so it inescapably augments itself. Self-relation is therefore essentially incomplete: the idea of Self is not identical with the instance of consciousness that is conceiving of it.
Emergence of thought is a process whereby consciousness attempts to grasp itself, to mirror itself, to complete its self-ideation in terms of meaning held in common with other instances of consciousness, and thus perfect itself.
Another way, every instance of consciousness is logically incomplete and unstable in its self-ideation and seeks to stabilise itself by relating with other instances of consciousness. Whenever inconsistency in Self-ideation is identified, a thought arises to compensate for it, to maintain the tentative integrity of Self. Every expectation, every disappointment, every belief, every idea, compensate for the imperfect integrity of Self. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/theory-of-reflexive-consciousness
Crucially, how we deal with prior realisations of inconsistency of self-ideation influences how we respond to new realisations of inconsistency, and this can go either way, towards greater stability of self-ideation or towards catastrophic instability. The process can indeed be self-amplifying, but it is fundamentally governed by the laws of sense, insofar as we can discern them and apply them to our conception of the world and with the idea of Self being embedded in it.
You're the only man that can soothe my mental distress and moral injuries, Dr McLaren. My goodness our world is cruellest to the most well-intentioned, sincere and honest. When I think I can't go on, I turn to your teachings and example and recall the persecution of Jesus Christ. God my life has been hellish and it shows few signs of easing. God Bless you.
Excellent history, Niall
You are the Semmelweis of today. Glad that you are safe, though.
Dr McLaren another interesting "screenshot" ÃŪn words on what is psychiatric treatment, its false claims, its abuse and the urgency to find a human way to really help when we our minds are not tune enough.. Of course bettering socio economical situation of "patients" instead of bettering the socio economic situation of psychiatrist, pharma owners, and a few dots more has never been put in practice as it may recover from "mental health problems" too many... Thank you for sharing your knowledge and understanding... You are a great soul!! ðĨðð
I agree that the inner voice is not the primary cause of intentional action, that something deeper, more basic, motivates us to act, and is only reflected by our inner voice/thought/idea. What is the cause of the thoughts that arise, how can we explain them.
I recently wrote this:
Consciousness is intrinsically a reflexive multiplicity, not logically self-sufficient (this point I argued elsewhere), where every instance of consciousness - a point of view embedded in the narrative continuity of events - continuously attempts to conceive of itself in relation to others, but in doing so it inescapably augments itself. Self-relation is therefore essentially incomplete: the idea of Self is not identical with the instance of consciousness that is conceiving of it.
Emergence of thought is a process whereby consciousness attempts to grasp itself, to mirror itself, to complete its self-ideation in terms of meaning held in common with other instances of consciousness, and thus perfect itself.
Another way, every instance of consciousness is logically incomplete and unstable in its self-ideation and seeks to stabilise itself by relating with other instances of consciousness. Whenever inconsistency in Self-ideation is identified, a thought arises to compensate for it, to maintain the tentative integrity of Self. Every expectation, every disappointment, every belief, every idea, compensate for the imperfect integrity of Self. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/theory-of-reflexive-consciousness
Crucially, how we deal with prior realisations of inconsistency of self-ideation influences how we respond to new realisations of inconsistency, and this can go either way, towards greater stability of self-ideation or towards catastrophic instability. The process can indeed be self-amplifying, but it is fundamentally governed by the laws of sense, insofar as we can discern them and apply them to our conception of the world and with the idea of Self being embedded in it.