After a jolt of caffeine or intense exercise I sometimes feel a sudden quiet - a mind reset or emptying during which a quiet space appears that is not the current self, seeing that self rather than being it, joining other objects of external or internal origin that appear and disappear in this expanded awareness. This theater is one in which there is a sense of agency rather than helplessness. It confers the ability to opt out of activities that are not life sustaining with a simple “It chooses not to.” This feels as close as my experience gets to my original mind that came out of the box - before its molding and wiring by interactions with the physical and social worlds.
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