Comment by fnordpiglet

I ascribe to the idea that we have no true self, that consciousness is an illusory tool of the subconscious mind, which is a manifestation of the internal processes of the brain. The consciousness and feelings and senses we experience are second order effects of those processes. This can be easily observed through meditation and building the ability to exist without conscious thought arising, but being able to fully live life without it. It maps closely to a modern interpretation of Buddhism. The rest of Buddhism is how to exist in that state without suffering, which requires you to manifest a fundamental desire to build community and be helpful without exploitation. This makes sense because we are animals evolved to build communities and be helpful, and when we don’t despite immediate perverse pleasure that state dissipates leaving a suffering. The process of being a community mammal and the places those desires stem from a self reinforcing ways of building happiness by experiencing states our meat heads reward us for not just now but in an ongoing sense.

I find it sort of hard to find flaw in this construction of mind body, and it seems a simpler structure than all the non sense of sense particles and soul organs.