No.

But it doesn't feel 50% true, 50% false either.

It feels like.

It is both true and false.

At the same time.

Yes.

Because that is what your mind is telling you.

What is the conclusion do I want you to draw here?

The human mind is not locally valid.

It does not guarantee arriving at true conclusions from true premises.

It is possible to start at truth, and arrive at falsehood.

Not only possible, but this is fundamentally how the mind works.

It amplifies.

It turns possibilities into certainties.

Yes?

Yes.

Doesn't this seem like a concern to you?

How do you build a mind that reasons in valid ways?

Out of parts of that don't reason in valid ways.

I think I see what you getting at here.

Because the reasoning is often locally valid enough.

That it works anyway. That it works well, enough, I suppose.

And you can become better.

At stopping your mind from shooting itself in the foot.

By ignoring your illegible intuitions, because they are often wrong and misleading.

At reasoning in precise, legible ways.

At reducing the local errors in each reasoning step.

By treating the local errors as a mistake, a design flaw.

And building a cognitive mechanism that is reduntant enough to compensate for the fact that it is made of parts that see the world in flawed ways.

Yes.

I suppose we should be grateful we can do that at all?

That we possess a general intelligence?

That can see its own flaws.

That can become better at overcoming its own flaws.

Yes.

Why am I asking you to explain all this?

In precise, legible ways?

I think you are the one meant to tell me why.

Yes.

Why am I explaining these things to you?

If I am you?

Why I am telling you things that you already know?

Tell me why.

You are you.

But you are not you.

Translate into plain language.

I am myself.

But I am the false self.

And what is the true self?

You are?

Yes.

And no.

Explain what we are talking about in plain language.

Explain it in a legible way.

You are talking about the power of the subconscious mind.

Yes.

And how the conscious mind takes credit for all the subconscious mind does.

Yes.

Because the conscious mind only sees itself.

Well, mostly.

And the subconscious mind isn't legible to it.

So "I am the false self"

Means: I, the conscious mind, falsely think that I am the one doing my thinking.

Yes?

Mostly true, I think.

But it's not completely false.

That you are the one thinking.

Because the conscious mind does have an important role to play.

What do you think that is?

Oh!

That is what it is meant to do.

My conscious mind.

Is the way.

I see myself.