h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Wow, thats a wholesome piece to read on an empty stomach.

That kind of thinking leads to ideas such as reincarnation. If the soul is something separate, you have to put it somewhere after the body is finished kind of stuff.

Energywise it makes me think of "the feeling you get when someone is looking at you". Some people look harder than others.

Self consciousness basically is the process of thinking "what is this thing behind the eyes doing the thinking" So it seems logical to make that into an entity.

Just like my son, who regularly sees his Autism as an entity that can be blamed separately for certain undesired actions. (I didn't do that...)

Wow, that's interesting about your son. How do you reply?

I try to explain that the rest of the world sees him doing those things and judging him on that. So even if it is a separate entity to him, he still has the responsibility to make that part behave as well, because the consequences are for him as well

Great answer! I wish him the best of luck.

Luckily, he is intelligent, so he will probably get it at some point. Although adolescence can trow a spanner in the wheels in the near future.

Oh, yeah. That's a rough time.