That's great advice! Changing the perspective of the self from a viewer to an active agent in the world is an empowering way of analyzing things even if we just start by modifying our internal monologue.

I'll definitely recall this as I write more... Words are powerful tools.

And elaborate as much as you like! For me it's always nice to see people speak (write?) passionately about the things they love.

Thank for taking the time to share such an insightful comment.

Gabriel Eduardo Wow thank you so much for the encouragement. I really like talking about that stuff! And if I get going I won't stop XD

So. Let me share with you something else. Which I hope you find valuable.

Perhaps you already know about this given your background. But there's a way of thinking about cognition without ever needing to introduce the idea of representational memory, like a hard drive. Or any "mind-is-a-computer" analogy at all!!!

Instead you shift the focus towards the kind of processes the brain needs to do in order to perform effectively given its body's environment. Cognition, thus, emerges from the interaction between environment, brain and body. Remove any one, and you have no cognition.

And memory may be thought of as the collection of effective actions, acquired through experience, for dealing with the environment. Hence what I mentioned about "being able to perform".

This approach to cognitive science is know broadly as "4e cognition" which stands for Embodied, Extended, Embedded and Enactive <- this last one is another rabbit hole of its own. Here's a friendly introduction from Scientific American

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