That Little Voice in Your Head Is Not You

Jonathan Morris Schwartz
6 min readMar 21, 2022

It exists outside of your body and the good news is….it lives forever

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Our consciousness

For the sake of this article and thought experiment, I’m defining our consciousness as that little voice in our heads that talks to us: guides our thoughts, narrates our experiences, and gives us the illusion of having free will.

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Jonathan Morris Schwartz

Jonathan Morris Schwartz is a speech language pathologist living in Ocala, Florida writing about love, politics, philosophy, and consciousness.