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Brain Learning vs. Programming: How to Process Lived Experience
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Your brain can function and still feel trapped.
That is the tension I sit with here: the difference between a mind running on trained responses and a brain learning how to process what life feels like from the inside outward.
In this reflection, I move through a crisis of self: the anger, fear, and anxiety that show up when my natural way of learning is not programming, but processing. When that processing path gets blocked, confusion builds. To me, that confusion is not random. It is information with nowhere to go.
I break down what I mean by programmed states of mind…
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