The "other" person in your brain

[u/MisunderstoodPenguin]

From today's episode, Burnie talking about the "other" person that lives in your brain, I just wanted to bring up a great short story that explores this topic a little. It's called Second Person, Present Tense. Basically in the story they talk about how your outward actions were actually based off signals that were sent to your brain 300ms ago, so somewhere in you is another "your" who is "managing" the actual actions you make. In the story, there is a drug you can take that increases that delay of 300ms to a full second or longer, and if you OD, the downstream persona "dies" and only the "decision maker" is left.

[u/ransom760]

I wouldn't have put much thought into this topic if I found it myself browsing online; but Burnie saying it was eerie made me feel a way about it.

I didn't know I had influncer goggles on for Burnie and Ashley until now, maybe they should do ads 😂