Inyash Brodsky

Like, why is there only a part of us that is conscious and accessible to introspection?

So you think the fact that we have a consciousness, we have been altering our subconsciousness over time and actually changing how it interacts with the rest of us?

Which means that we could already be significantly different in our brains than our ancestors even just 10,000 years ago through this feedback process.

Yeah.

Can we do anything about the subconscious?

Is it good that we have a subconscious that we can't introspect?

It feels like a lot of religion is about how to manage your subconscious.

In an ideal world, would you personally prefer to be an entirely conscious being or do you like having a subconscious element to yourself?

Which I guess is totally off topic, but now I'm just curious.

I want to pull this out from your writings because it relates directly.

You say, with self-reference, our animal drives become fractal symphonies of yearning and imagination.

Hmm.

Which I guess is what we're talking about here, that we can feel these different things pulling us, even though we can't control that they're pulling us.

And it makes for a much more complicated, interesting existence.

The rest of that line is my commentary that I was going to know.

You didn't italicize it.

I should have.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I guess I do wonder about that because Buddhism is the, or at least the parts of Buddhism that have become popularized in the West, is the trying to eliminate all desire, right?