and remember, this system evolved to work in the ancestral environment- the further we push it out of distribution the more troubles we encounter- whether w ergonomics, Dunbar limit, social coordination instinct, issues w information processing & emotional dysregulation https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1823238495680524493
my model of dissociation is that it's when we move our awareness out of the body of the Self to somewhere else in our simulacrum, usually somewhere more comfy... moving our attention away from pain w the side effect of making it difficult to pilot our body https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1806467179719848094
an important aspect is which objects in our environment we choose to model as Minds with their own interiority, goals & preferences & intentions. edge cases include coma patients, animals, hallucinations / memories / demons, complex systems like Gaia or the Market, and now AIs https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1889782481278345545