Im playing Cyberpunk 2077. As a person who benefits from schizophrenia, i became very interested, philosophically, in the games idea of a brain dance.
The philosophy behind a brain dance, is the idea of the body as “everything” and a product our minds use to harness the world around us.
That is, if we have some tech helping wire our brain, our mind will use that image, or sound, produced by the tech, to understand the world around it.
In a brain dance implant in ones brain, one could be dancing like a geisha, or being whipped by olga meos. The world would become the brain dance.
We can visualise this quite easily. However, when it comes to sound it starts to become wierd.
Schizophrenia, is usually accompanied by either, or, or both auditory and visual hallucinations. It occurs firstly in the brain. And is experienced by the mind as being realistic, and as true as sitting next to someone on a train.
When you add thought echo, that is, when sound is heard moments after it has happened, and compare it with schizophrenia, there are similarities and differences.
They differ, because in a thought echo, the sound has really taken place outside ones own thoughts. Whereas, in schizophrenia it has arisen only in ones mind.
They are similar, because if in ones mind, in both schizophrenia and thought echoes, where is the sound still?
Sound is both there and not there at the same time.
Now lets add brain dances. If we are given an auditory stimulus, to insert into our brain. If we think of how this affects ones capacity to understand the world around them.
As someone who benefits from schizophrenia, for a sound to arise in the brain, perhaps can be controlled to a certain extent, by understanding one does have schizophrenia.
However, for sound thats not actually there to arise in the brain, by external stimulus, that is, the external stimulus, hardwired into the brain, would seem to arise as truth, as reality.
We would be factory line people, ready to program.
That is if all we are, are just brains. Or are our minds more than physical, and some Plato, Buddha, or Mohammed, can escape that trap, also?
But how so? If we cannot be sure if what we are hearing is real or not?
As someone benefiting from schizophrenia, id maintain G, and not-G, simultaneously.
Id maintain both G, and not-G about this coming world, where reality has disintegrated almost entirely.
And the final question is, has the human race ever really known reality in the first place?
Being trapped by our own brains, the mind follows. The mind, knowing it no longer has to follow the brain, and is following the heart, that is loving another, G, amore.
Love’s not often talked about anymore. Its as if it were some side product. What if i said its our lamp and guide. To declare one loves, is more than brain or mind. Reaching out, we feel it coming out, from deep silence.
Whats real? Will we ever know? Reaching out, from unknowing, returning, i feel you, G, deep inside me.
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