personally explore the mechanism responsible for voluntary self-sabotage

taken in by the soul illusion

Mistakes happen when you react to the things that happen in real-time.  What’s so puzzling about these two patterns is not that Mr. E and Mimi cause themselves and others to suffer unnecessarily but that they follow the same path even after they discover that it leads them to unwanted outcomes.  Why don’t they learn the lessons of painful experience?   

If you can detect a recurring pattern of unwanted outcomes in your biography, you have a puzzle to solve: what causes you to follow it?  Until you solve it, you’ll probably continue to react to the things that happen the way you always have.  The illustrations on this page can help you solve this perverse puzzle

So, let’s solve your puzzle right now. Consider your self-sabotaging pattern:  I’ll bet that the typical episode looked different retrospectively than it felt in real time. What was obviously a mistake in hindsight felt like the right thing to do at the moment.  To solve the puzzle of intentional self-sabotage, you have to access both of these realities.  Specifically, you have to appreciate the puzzle inside out (first-person perspective of the puzzle) and outside in (third-person perspective of the puzzle).  The images below allow you to observe your experience of the optical illusion from the first-person perspective of, say, a subject in a perception experiment and also from the third-person perspective of the researcher who is focused on how subjects perceive the illusions.

The researcher presents pixels on the screen.  The subject creates an interpretation from these stimulus elements. This act of creating an image is a metaphor for how you create your subjective reality from the stimulus elements that populate your environment.

The Soul Illusion [the bogus assumption that you see things as they really are] results from forgetting that the map your nervous system creates is not the same as the territory it is attempting to depict.

Neker cube
Necker Cube
ambiguous figure
how fast can you flip?
ambiguous figure
perpetual motion
ambiguous figure
Angels & Devils
Figure Ground
9 Embedded Figures
Figure Ground
Who’s bigger?
Identical Figures
Tabletops
Identical Figures
Shades of Grey
Contrast
logo for the psyche
Impossible Figure

The black dots in this image exist only in your mind




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