When you look through a microscope, or hear music through headphones, are you those tools? Or are you the thing that hears and sees?
How can you “have” emotions? When you try to reach the baseline of your experience, when you try to find the thing that experiences reality, what do you think you’ll find?
I mean no? Where did you get we have any idea how consciousness works at all? We have no idea what structures on the brain have anything to do with it, or if they have anything to do with it at all.
We know about brain structures shaping our personalities, memories and senses. But that’s not consciousness. Not at all.
Perhaps that is the misunderstanding?
Consciousness is awareness, experience. It’s the “observer” under the experience. THAT is a mystery, that is the hardest problem in science. Not “where in the brain do we process sadness?”…
Yeah I was pretty mad when I wrote that. Being an immigrant to the more central provinces of the Imperial Core makes you realize the dissonance and hypocrisy much more vividly…
Ofc I don’t think it makes sense for anyone to live paralysed by guilt. Maybe some of the wealthier heirs of colonialism, but like 99.99% of people deserve a chance to learn and understand and change. Guilt can be a tool for that. But it also can be a detriment.
The wealth of your nation is the fruit of colonisation. Your healthcare, public education, safety nets, your entire middle class, are the fruits of the overexploitation of the periphery, through colonialism and neo-colonialism.
The wealth of the colonial countries is entirely due to wealth extracted from the colonies. If they don’t want the responsibility, they should also give away all their wealth.
Whaaaat? Capitalism benefits capital and not workers and consumers? Preposterous.