Mind as an emergent self-organizing process
What the f<i></i>* am I reading?<p>The notion of mind is a delusion, caused by confused    verbalized introspection in the first place. An observer (the awareness) misapprehends working of a set of semi-independent parts as a whole, like an observer of a large city from the top of a skyscraper could readily mistake it for a living organism.<p>Some rather theoretical scientists are arguing that the notion of so-called [my] self is just an illusion of the same kind. (The Robert Wright&#x27;s course on Coursera is a good starting point).<p>Consciousness (but not necessarily self-consciousness, which is the notion available only to an abstract-thinking capable entity) or awareness is the property of all animals with a complex-enough brain. It definitely exist as one of many processes in a brain.<p>The notion of an individual mind being a part of the universal mind (in which each individual mind is a drop in a waterfall on the river of Brahman) goes back a few millennia and nowadays is considered to be nothing but a beautiful abstraction.<p>As a person who got The Society Of Mind and The Emotion Machine (among other titles) on my bookshelf I am very concerned about such lousy &quot;science&quot; being promoted on HN.