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How could pure awareness make a decision if it is just pure awareness? Would it be better to say that it's the background upon which the other categories that you have there play out? And as far as pure awareness, I interpret that as awareness without anything in it, awareness that is not aware. Kind of cancels it's self out. Haha when you say that pure awareness should be in control, based on what I've just said I read it as, nothing should be in control. I like that.


"I believe that we are a cumulation of many many minds"


I could agree with this but would put it more like; any conscious state is a holistic representation of a vast amount of processes. I don't feel like I have more that one mind.


"But what is a mind? Is it just pieces of code that are able to interpret reality in a unique way? Like a computer program, each has a specific function, limiting parameters?"


I don't think that mental functions are like computer programs, computer programs have no ontological element to them. Ontology in Philosophy is the subject of experience or; what it feels like to be you. I don't think that a computer has a subjective experience.


Sorry to be picky but there are a bunch of things that you have written that I don't feel able to comment on in any constructive way. I recommend, if you're interested, some videos on the philosophy of mind. They may not satisfy all of your curiosities but may be helpful in some ways.


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There are a lot of videos in the series and it gets pretty deep but the first few will give you a basic look at some of the ideas that are out there.


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