Our brain, not our mind, does a great deal that is outside of conscious thought, but with the paradigm of the mind as a product of the brain, rather than a discovery of it, nothing I say will really make sense to what are obviously excellent logic circuits. You are obviously capable of the NOT function though. Self reflection is a condition made possible by the NOT function. We worked out that we "were" by working out what we were not. Ants don't seem to have the not function, and in my experience of cows, (dairy in the family) they don't either, hence I don't worry about eating them. I am not sure about dogs, cats and other higher mammals though, they seem capable of separation. The not function is a basic tenet of separation from experience. Mind is found in the experience of NOT. Not this bit, not that bit, not this way and not that. Apparently being and individual is achieved by not being as others. (I deal with a lot of teenagers...ugg) The mind in experience is vulnerable and insecure and seeks to clothe itself. The forces of biology seeking reproductive continuity through social status certainly don't help the mind be relaxed about its naked apparent vacancy of state. Nihilism in its many manifestations is a natural cultural evolution in a culturally diverse community because the arbitrary nature of clothing the mind creates an ambivalence about what constitutes meaning on a social level. Scientific materialism is a profoundly nihilistic force as it only provides material and mechanistic reasons for social cohesion. Being IS more than that. No matter how hard you try to eradicate it, eventually a connected transpersonal sense will emerge, unfortunately it tends to emerge with weird magical beliefs that are created for social gain and control by very clever manipulators.
The core of reflective experience is a condition of NOT, and the loneliness and insecurity of such a situation demands a resolve. Perhaps mind was discovered by this simple logical operation. I am sure you are aware of and or and not operators as the basis of all Turing machines. All that discrete existence in the presence of “not that” computation reveals what is in fact not that. Beside, within, and behind all that is discrete is what is not discrete. The only existence that is not discrete is continuous in an absolute sense. Choice is ontologically impossible without NOT as a function.
NOT leads ultimately to continuity because it leads away from the discrete. When you are ultimately sick of choosing and thinking this and not that, and the situation becomes “not anything”, ambivalence sets in, and with enough generalised ambivalence, a window opens. None of it matters, all that stuff is not ultimately you, and then another window opens. The source of self experience; unformed continuity. Maybe that is an emergent function of computation of the Turing type, maybe it is a valueless value that the “pervasive NOT” that the computation reveals as an answer. I prefer the latter because of my experience, but I am not really saying anything different to a computational argument. The language of collapse is a step towards the real informational reality, and it is best to start with others language in communication if you can, if you want to build a bridge. There is no collapse, there are just wave functions within the universal wave function. Decoherence looks like a classical world, and that is the discrete domain realised as information entangles in spreading waves. It’s an entirely fleeting thing. In my computational argument I just put something like a zero in the calculation to account for the quantity that ISN”T there, like the zero used in mathematical expressions of quantity. I gave the zero the property that my experience of it provides.
My communication is actually meant for people who are a lot less bright than you, simply because that is most people, and tight philosophical arguments alienate them, and achieve nothing. This world needs people to get a sense of continuity with others and their entire physical context, if it is to change its diabolical course. All forms of narcissism, sociopathy, and exploitative criminality are built on a delusion of separateness. This sense of continuity between people and the world can only be built from an experience of continuity.
If the effect of your philosophy is not as good as you would like it to be, you are always free to change it. This however is where belief becomes a stumbling block. If you believe that belief needs to be the foundation of thinking, you are trapped in inescapable circles. Experience is always there prior to assumptions, but when you live with belief between you and the direct experience of life, you cant really be that well informed about what fresh experience is like.
I was born a strange animal with two very distinct sides. This internal division is what I think may have led me to spend so long finding what was at the root of my experience. The prospect of being mistaken in the final interpretation of how continuity and discreteness interact in the creation of the transitory illusion of the discrete doesn’t bother me because being right is not the purpose. The purpose is to use my limited time and resources to hopefully make some sort of positive difference to the isolation of people and the destructive effects of antagonistic beliefs.
Feel free to judge me and my silly book, in fact you should, because in the patterns within the judgments will be a bunch of insights for you about you that only you can find. I have found in some rather severe negative reactions I have had in the past to truly fucked up circumstances that I have upon reflection on the patterns that emerged, learnt a great deal about myself, and thereby managed to cast off hidden shadows. Some seriously ugly shit I can assure you