"Where is the Mind" — August 17th, 2026

So we get that a brain is a system that renders and interprets external and internal stimuli. Chemical chain reactions and memory storage decide its state at any given moment. I see a tree, I think about a similar tree from childhood that had a tire swing, I get nostalgic, then I get hungry and I start thinking about lunch. Not many other things, to our knowledge, have systems like these outside of animals. Some say water has memory, but what the hell does that even mean. My whole thing is these chemical reactions and electrical firings are translating the physical world into a more spiritual, woo woo, "mental" one- but for who? It gets super blurry here when we start to question if "we" (consciousness) are a product of the inner workings of the mind or if the true mind is merely receiving the physical brain's signals. I lean towards the latter. I don't believe that the mind, even as complex as it is, is the grounds for the emergence of a witness, but it more closely resembles a device that allows a (potentially eternal) witness to peer into the physical world for the duration of a lifetime. There’s a cool, relatively new theory surrounding the “location” of subjective experience. Specifically in regards to the microtubules in the brain. These super small hollow protein cylinders act as quantum processors, maintaining coherent states that collapse to produce moments of awareness. I realize that shit reads like a whole bunch of gobbledygook. To sum up why I think this is cool and important- quantum theory as a whole is in a state where the most we understand about it is that we currently can't fully understand it, yet at the same time, it’s fundamental to our understanding of the behavior of all things that make up reality. All this to say, if we don’t fully understand consciousness, and we don’t fully understand the base level state of all things- the second there’s overlap leads me to think they’re deeply related, to the point where the world might rely on the witness just as much as the witness relies on the world to exist at all. I'm not saying you're God. Well, maybe like the "you" that sits behind your mind and the ego attached to said mind is God. Ok we might be God.

"Oh, to be" — August 12th, 2026

I have obtained possession of a third dimensional shape known as a body, consisting of seven billion billion billion little energy beads (7 X 10^27 “atoms”) which are organized into 30 trillion cells and 38 trillion microorganisms all of which coalesce into a diverse range of tissues and biomes that make up about 78 different organs depending on how you count them. It’s during this possession, defined as "agency," that I’m able to orchestrate the body’s limb’s extremities (fingers) with the directive of applying downward pressure onto the plastic buttons that are housed within a complicated piece of metal (a laptop). The buttons allow electricity to travel in an overwhelmingly intricate, yet orderly fashion within its (the laptop’s) sterile, and "lifeless" aluminum housing. All of this is happening with the intention of rendering a representation of a set of electrical firings that have occurred (separate of that occurring inside the aluminum system previously described) from within a certain section of my body, known as the brain (specifically the left frontal lobe). My duty, as the entity responsible for transcribing these firings, is to do them justice by depicting them in both an accurate and understandable portrayal- known as a post. These “posts” are composed of a particular combination of like fifty different unique symbols in order to create a code with the syntax of sentences comprised of words. This “code” then becomes accessible once I upload them to a massive database known as the internet. From there, you (another entity, driving a shape made up of the same shit) have to have made a series of specific clicks/taps on your own overly-complex aluminum device, with your own agency, to make that crap (said device) literally light up in a way that presents said code (which, by the way, has now gone through a whole digital journey & compression process that we won’t even get into right now, ‘cause I’m not tryna overcomplicate stuff) to your advanced light receptors (eyes) which then send yet another electrical signal to your brain. Don’t worry, though- the decryption process should be simple at this point, as the code is formatted in a way which, given you're literate and capable of sight (or have some other sighted and literate entity reading this to you), should naturally create electrical firings in your brain to resemble something kind of similar to the ones that originally went off in mine.