The brother who answered the phone in the north should be from the northeast who came to the north, especially funny, and laughed out loud when he listened to it, and now he feels much better.

I still don't want to write a story, so I'll just write something else.

Let's try to explain the question "Who am I" in a scientific way:

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Let's start by describing people's empathy abilities:

Try to fit into such a scenario.

I stole a dollar from my table mate, Xiaohong, and was discovered by Xiaohong, and then I saw Xiaohong's expression, and I knew that Xiaohong was angry.

OK, the scene above.

Here's a question, how do I know that Xiaohong, who is at the same table, is "angry"?

By looking at the expressions?

Of course, you can know by looking at the expressions, such as Xiaohong's eyes glaring at me, or blushing, or puffing up, all in all, these are angry expressions, so I know that Xiaohong is angry.

But actually, even if I didn't see Red's face, and even before Red found out that I was stealing, I knew that Red would be angry.

The reason for this is that I have an "empathy" ability, and I can "imagine" in my brain the scene of Xiaohong (Xiaohong finds out that I am stealing), so that I know that "Xiaohong" will be angry.

This process of "imagining" is important in explaining the question of what consciousness is all about.

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Okay, so the question above continues:

In the process of imagining Xiaohong's anger, in the words of the online article, it is I who substituted Xiaohong. So, what is the specific process of my substitution for Xiaohong? In my brain, I used about a few million neurons to simulate a "little red individual", and then, I gave this "simulated little red" composed of millions of neurons an external feedback of "something was stolen", and this "simulated little red" made an "angry" response.

So I know Red is going to be angry.

Although the whole process is a bit complicated to describe in words, the time is actually very short, and it is completed in 0.01 seconds.

So I only had to think about it a little to know that Xiaohong was going to be angry.

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You may be a little confused, but don't worry, this knowledge will be easy for you to understand when we use it below.

Highlights: In my brain, I can simulate a "little red" coming out. It doesn't take much effort, millions of neurons, to create a little red personality (the human brain has hundreds of billions of neurons, and a few million is not too much).

What do these millions of neurons simulate Xiaohong? There are (looks, figures, expressions, hairstyles, things that have been done before, reflections of things encountered in the past (blushing than being praised, being ashamed of being criticized, and being angry when stolen), all kinds of things,),This one by one,It's Xiaohong's personality.。 The more comprehensive the character design, the more fully I can simulate the personality of "Little Red". The little red in my mind is getting closer to the real little red.

Since I was at the same table as Xiaohong, I knew her very well. Well, to fully understand her, I need millions of neurons.

On the contrary, if you want to describe someone you don't know, such as Zhang San next door, hundreds of thousands of neurons may be enough. The definition of Zhang San in my eyes is (name Zhang San, gender male), and most ordinary people have characteristics).

Speaking of which, the question I want to express may have only come out of the smart classmates.

That's right: every familiar person, in my head, is simulated with neurons, and these neurons, more or less. The more neurons there are, the more realistic and human-like a person can be simulated.

For example, I know my mom well, so if I want to think about my mom in my head, I might need to call hundreds of millions of neurons.

Therefore, we live in our hearts a lot of little people, through these little people living in our hearts, through the continuous improvement of these little people, we have established our cognition of "the people around us".

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What about me "myself"?

That's the key question I want to make.

What am I?

In fact, according to the above set, it is not difficult to come to such a conclusion: I myself am also a villain in the brain. Of course, there may be a lot of neurons that make up this little person, maybe hundreds of millions, or even billions. Because, we have the most information about ourselves. (Note that this information is not necessarily true).

I have a lot of evidence to prove that when I say the word "I", I am not actually talking about my body + my brain, but "the little man in my brain".

So, the idea is that "I" is all equal to "the little man in my head".

So, who am I? I am the "little man in my head".

It's that clump of neurons in my brain.

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This is where the concept of "I" comes in.

Why does this explain the concept of "who am I"?

Because this "little man in the brain" hypothesis can explain a lot of problems, I will explain a few questions at random now.

Question 1:

All of us have no memory when they were young, and the earliest memories are either from the age of 1, 2, or even 3 or 4 years old. Why is that?

Because at that time, "I" had not yet been formed. That lump of neurons is not yet perfect.

In other words, when I was a child, the consciousness of "me" did not exist.

The generation of "me" in the brain is a process of aggregation of neurons. How is it generated?

Here's how to do it: accept feedback.

When feeding, the feeling of sucking Mimi + the feeling of being cold + the feeling of being held + the feeling of hands + the feeling of mouth + the feeling of body pain and itching...... These make up the sensory part of the neurons of the "little man in my brain".

When I was able to open my eyes, I saw my parents, my room, my food, and everything, and these visual information entered the "little man in my head".

There is also hearing, taste, smell.

The five senses constitute our perception of the outside world.

But at this time, I still didn't know "myself".

So, when was the "I" generated?

In fact, it's when others pay attention to me, that is, when others give me feedback.

The parentheses indicate the important content.

The existence of "I" is defined by others.

For example, the question "Am I good-looking?" It's completely defined by others: dad says you're good-looking, mom says you're good-looking, grandma says you're good-looking, and your friends say you're good-looking...... If everybody says I'm good-looking, then I'm definitely good-looking.

It doesn't matter if you look in the mirror or not.

So what if I'm really ugly and they're just lying to me?

It's very simple, just go to the road and take a walk to know, see what passers-by say? Is it a super high return rate? Are you all here to talk? Or do passers-by pinch their noses when I pass by?

Mom and Dad will deceive with good intentions, but passers-by will not, right? So that way, I know if I'm good-looking or not-looking.

So...... We still define ourselves through others. However, what is defined here is a more real "passerby".

In fact, the key is not whether I look good or not, but whether I look good or not.

It is through "feedback", through the reflection of [others]!

For example, how tall am I? This question, because I can't see myself, so I have to look at how tall others are, I am taller than Xiao Ming, I am taller than Xiaohong, and I am taller than everyone, then I know that I am tall. It can also be compared by objects, taller than a table, taller than a chair, shorter than a refrigerator, here is through [objects] to feedback, in short, the way to define "me" must be by seeing the outside world, feedback back to yourself. to define "I".

In addition to whether it is good-looking or not, tall or short, what other attributes does "I" have?

I study well (not 100 points, but the teacher says to you, "You are awesome in 100 points", so you think you study well; Because your classmates envy your eyes, you think you study well; Mom and Dad praise you, you think you study well; It is the definition of [others] for you, a 100-point paper is meaningless, and it needs to be compared with someone else's 60-point paper to make sense. ）

I'm an introvert (it's not that I don't want to talk to others, but in a group, people will ignore you, making you feel like "no one pays attention to me, fortunately I don't talk", it's you who find that others are more talkative than you, and I am always the one who passively accepts orders in the group)

I am poor (relative to others, you have 1000000 savings, richer than 100 savings, poorer than 1 million savings, if you live in a place full of 100 yuan deposits, others say that you are rich, you will definitely think that you are rich)

Note: It's always "what others think of you" that defines yourself.

All of this information, which feeds back to me from the outside world, adds up to "me", which constitutes "the little person in the brain", that is that super-complex collection of neurons.

So, this answers the initial question:

Why don't I have memories until I'm 2 years old? Because "I" didn't get enough feedback to form a complete memory.

When I receive comments from others such as "am I good-looking", "am I tall or short", "am I introverted or extroverted", etc., I can finally know what "I" is in the eyes of [others], and this defines "me".

Reader, you see, the concept of "I" is actually gradually defined and strengthened.

is a process.

The process of starting something from nothing.

Of course, my definition is not just someone else, but also something else.

For example, in the eyes of the earth, I am an object that weighs 50kg and can land; In the eyes of the hand paper, I am an object that can be torn off and wiped with snot and thrown in the trash; In the eyes of my phone, I am the object that often touches its body without washing my hands......

I am different in the eyes of different objects, and these differences add up to form a collection of "I".

Finally, a complete "I" is defined.

Why there is no memory before the age of 2.

Because at that time, the world only had simple information input to me. I wasn't able to build my self-awareness through this feedback and interaction. But if you have more contact, the more sound the "I" will be, and the stronger the personality will be.

Therefore, everyone always emphasizes that reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles is actually a process of "experience". It is a gradual process of "strengthening oneself".

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This definition of "I" can also explain question 2:

Why do people in the class always like to pretend to be forced? Why do people in society always like to pretend to be forced? Why does XXX always have someone who likes to pretend to be forced?

Pretending to be forced is a process of showing one's strength, well, it is usually a process of showing the strength of a person who is not strong enough.

For example, I once copied the homework of a top student, and after copying it, the girl sitting behind me said to me, "Wow, you are so good, you can do this question!" I said, "That's too easy." (I feel very empty, but I show an expression that pretends to be confident)

It's a process of me pretending.

What is my purpose? It is to get a high evaluation from girls.

There is a question to note here, how do I define myself? As I said earlier, I define myself through what others think and do to me. The girls behind me adored me very much, which made me have a "sense of presence" and even a "strong sense of presence". I'm willing to brush my presence like this. In this way, the "I", or the "little man in the brain", will become stronger and stronger. Stronger and stronger.

My ultimate goal is to make everyone think that I am strong, that they all have a good opinion of me, that I have a good evaluation, so that I am strong in the eyes of everyone.

However, in the above example, I don't really know how to do that question, so I'm actually weak.

But it doesn't matter if I'm really weak or not, it's what others think of me. Because, everyone defines themselves through "others".

So, everyone is willing to pretend. They all like to pretend to be forced.

Everybody loves it, really.

Because everyone wants to have a sense of existence, there is no one who really doesn't like to pretend, because people who don't like pretending don't have the concept of "me", and they are not aware of their own existence.

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Question 3 can also be explained:

Why do I realize I'm thinking?

Note that this is a question that all the great philosophers of ancient and modern times cannot explain, and it must be attributed to the soul, consciousness, and other inexplicable problems. However, through the concept of "little man in the brain", it can be explained.

To explain "Why can I 'realize' that I'm thinking?" This question needs to borrow the initial concept: we will set up a lot of "villains" in our brains through neuronal groups, for example, Xiaohong at the same table has millions of neurons, and my mother has hundreds of millions of neurons. In other words, there may be more than one villain in our brain. (Look, here is another explanation for why many people have multiple personalities, because there are many villains, and each villain receives different feedback and has different definitions, so there will be different personalities)

Let's not talk about multiple personalities here, just why I was able to "realize" that I was thinking.

In this case, the brain is actually divided into two parts:

Part 1: A cluster of hundreds of millions of neurons representing "me" (this is the feedback that others give to me, which is usually me)

Part 2: The part of the neuron that is thinking rationally (i.e., the part of your memory that is doing the same thing)

Now, actually, when it comes to splitting into two parts, you should already understand it to the intelligent reader.

The phrase "I realized I was thinking",

Actually, it's "Part 1" and "Part 2"

That is: [other people's feedback] that part of my neurons saw the part of the neurons that were thinking rationally. In other words, [I have been fed back by others] has seen the "thought process".

"The process of thinking" is emphasized! So we humans often sigh: I am a thinking species, I have a soul, and I see the process of "thinking" itself.

There is also a problem in turn.

Who am I?

Who asked this question? It was the part of the neuron that was "thinking rationally" that asked.

So, the question is actually this: the part of the neuron that is thinking rationally, the part of the neuron that sees [the feedback from others].

So you see, reader. When we say "I", there are actually two.

Part of it is the neurons that I formed [from other people's feedback]; There are also neurons that are thinking rationally

All problems are due to the fact that one me sees another me

That's why I ask questions like: Who am I?

Or: Why do I realize I'm thinking?

Such a question.

Why couldn't the great philosophers of antiquity explain the question "Who am I?" Because they don't know the results of modern neuroscience. Therefore, he can only become more and more mysterious in metaphysics, and finally say something that he does not understand.

In fact, the concept of who I am is really not that complicated. It's just two neurons in the brain looking at each other.

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So, does the mysterious soul exist? Of course not.

Does consciousness exist? Of course not.

Do I exist? I'm just those two neurons.

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You're reading a book, and at this time, it's the neurons in your brain that are reading the book that "think rationally."

When you think about this question, you exclaim: "Is the author of the 14 tsunami right?" Let me think about it, "When I ask this question, it is: The neurons in your brain that think rationally are thinking.

When you ask, "Am I really not there?" When your "rational thinking part of the neurons" will see the "little man in the brain" and conclude that you exist.

Actually, you don't exist.

Every time I sleep, it's death.

Hopefully, when I wake up tomorrow, my brain will be rebooted.