/lit/ - Literature

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>>11501561

I recommend this >>11505628
Because it deals with what you're saying.
A brainlet explanation for it can be found in the book Dianetics, all the non-retarded stuff in that book is cribbed from Korzybski.
Basically, it's not your consciousness that wants sluts, but your dopey body which is an assemblage of evolutionary successes bolted onto each other.
All evolution wants a being to do is make babies that live just long enough to make more babies.
So you have a set up sub-minds, and specifically a reptilian brain under your human brain that just wants to fight and fuck and run.
It's a reactive mind.
Your human mind is analytical and uses logic.

Now, that's not the same as valuing logic over emotion. You must learn to analyze emotions and behavior in yourself and then later in others.

Once you start to do that, things will come together for you in that you'll for the first time be making informed choices.

Another book that will help you is pic related, because it clarifies how the mind actually operates in great detail

>>11498816
Also, materialism is not opposed to idealism. In this way: if mind is electrochemical, and life is electrochemical, but life is a result of natural energetic action upon matter, creating dissipative stable systems that become increasingly complex and get labeled "alive" (Jeremy England, physics MIT), AND plasma can be observed exhibiting swarm behavior (David Bohm, physics) THEN energy is God, God is fully material, and there is no reason to ever think that matter and ideal should be opposed. We even see it in computers: the abstract data in your computer has a physical basis and an ideal nature.

Take the Process Ontology Pill, OP. You can have both matter and spirit because spirit is energy.
Consciousness is an attribution my nigger, there is no problem that is not made hard by attribution: we designate the problem "hard" and proceed to invent ways for the goalpost to be moved.

Git gud

Consciousness is an artifact of attention neuromachinery and can be directly compared to the feedback loop distortion kaleidoscope effect created by pointing a video camera at the monitor outputting it's input

>>11433814

Attention Schema Theory says hi, OP

>>11271299