Conscious Experience: What is Conscious Experience? (Part 1 of 2)

I've been meaning to write on this topic for the longest time now but just kept procrastinating. A big reason I delayed talking on this particular topic was that I didn't want it to be just brushed over; I wanted it to be something that, after reading it, a whole new way of seeing the world would "awaken", something "spiritual" in a sense. Whether or not I achieved this is completely up to you to decide.

Another reason—or excuse if you'd prefer—, for my procrastinating was the sense of "Can I really talk on this topic effectively?", in more personal terms, a sense of inadequate knowledge on the topic or, at least, not to the extent that I deemed reasonable for the endeavour.

So what makes me feel "capable" now?

I don't know... Should we spend the whole day discussing why my mind chooses to do what it does when it does? A discussion of free will and the likes? Is that what we're about to do right now?

Nah. 

How to be The Smartest Person In The Room 101.1

"This is still a thing?"

Yes, it indeed is. Part of the reason it still is "a thing" I'll be sort of touching on in this post. As a fun side quest, see if you can spot the single word reason in the post.

As usual, I'll just be jumping right in.

Go ahead, try and guess the actual topic of today's post. See if you get it right.

The Bottle of Marbles Analogy

The Bottle of Marbles Analogy:

Assume you have a bottle containing four marbles, marbles A, B, C, and D, which move with Brownian motion (random motion) within the bottle. When marbles A, B and D collide at the same time a glow occurs and the marbles stick together for 24hrs before the glow ends and the marbles separate. Note that the collision of any marble to another leads to the marbles being stuck together for 24hrs.

Intellectual Life (CreepyPasta)

My last creepypasta amassed a nice sum of readers so I reckoned I would make another one. I hope you enjoy...

On The Bicameral Mind Concept

A Link to all topics discussed at end of post. 

Quick Summary: Bicameralism is a psychological hypothesis coined by Julian Jaynes in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. The book brings up the idea that just 3000 years ago humans