Siri Perera

The Extended Mind Siri Perera

This is an experiential account of the extended mind. It is about the mind slipping past its noisy frontline self-talking mind and finding the hidden, silent intuitive streaming mind. When the mind opens up and in silence, it thinks differently, communicating with an intention in mind to an entity outside of itself. The quiet mind evolves with time as it couples itself with the living space and its background noise. One senses with this the presence of a false consciousness that runs parallel to its natural counterpart. The self can find it difficult discerning between the Truth and the lie in the mind as result of this interaction. The infrastructure of the city has created this synthetic consciousness. As the silent mind extends itself into the ether via intuitive thinking and couples itself with its living space: the mind and body acquire a strange ability to modulate background noise. This can be seen as an acquired power of the mind as a result of finding this quiet space.