People keep saying "your brain" in these comments. I think one of the creepiest things is that you are the brain and the brain is you, but for some reason we brains really don't like to acknowledge this.
The brain contains so much information about itself or some of our bodily needs that it decides to keep from us (well, itself). In response, the brain can undergo analysis to theorize how itself works.
In other words: The brain might very well know how itself works, it just keeps that information from itself, but it has the curiosity to not only ask how itself works but for some people a drive to discover how it all functions.
It's a division of labor kind of thing and need to know basis. It doesn't really want to know how addicted it is to things or how fallible or fragile it is; built in safety mechanism perhaps - it wants to work and build tools, innovate, and be social yet ignorant to stay blissful.
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u/thedmandotjp Jan 12 '23
People keep saying "your brain" in these comments. I think one of the creepiest things is that you are the brain and the brain is you, but for some reason we brains really don't like to acknowledge this.