Im wondering that if we are the brain why we cant control things like pain and our immune system.
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You are one-third of your brain. You are the Ego. There are two other parts that experience reality just as much as you that you aren’t really fully aware of or even experience. They’re called the Id and the Superego.
These other two parts are part of you. But everything that you can point to in your own head as something that you consciously experience consists of only the parts that make up the Ego.
Your Id experiences the pain and then projects it to your Ego, screaming at you to make it stop. Since you are unaware of the reality of your Id, you can’t control it screaming at you. It just screams and screams and there’s nothing you can do about it besides stopping whatever stimuli your Id wants stopped.
Your Superego can also be referred to as your conscience. When you do something that your Superego deems “bad”, it will, in the same way as your Id, project its experience to you by screaming at you for doing that bad thing. That’s why you “feel bad” when you fuck up and can’t control whether or not you feel it. Short of physically assaulting someone, you can’t really stop them from screaming at you.
Don’t ignore these other parts of yourself. They experience reality just as much as you do. Listen to them. They are trying to communicate with you, they just don’t have the ability to use language.
This is just a model of something that we truly have no idea how it really works.
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