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Our being is just a brain and a nervous system. Our body is just a space suit
Goes more abstract than that. Our being is the unique interconnected pattern we all have of billions of firing neurons. Erase the pattern and you erase the human and make them a blank slate infant again. We are just software.
TLDR; We are the entire universe pretending to be an individual.
I like where you are going with it, but I think it’s more crazy than that. It seems that the idea of self/individual is an illusion. We think of our self’s as just our brain. But we are much more than that. There is an inter connectivity between our brain and the rest of our body that science is now just starting to understand. On top of that, we have everything else outside our body that we need to survive/can influence our health and train of thought.
As an example, think of all the things you can/can’t control with your body. Heart rate, digestion, fighting off infections, what mood you are in, etc.
This is where breath work in yoga/meditating comes in. It’s the most obvious example of a physiological process that is involuntary but also voluntary. Focus on that, and you can start blur the boundary between self and other.
So the question is, “where do “I” end, and where does “everything else” begin”?
Turns out that there is no solid or non-subjective answer to that.
It’s almost as if our ideas of “self” are an illusion in order to birth the evolutionary advantageous behavior of being social.
Anyway…I’m starting to feel the edible… have a great Labor Day!