And then the trunk, the deepest stuff, is micro scale processing - stuff like "i have a body" and "pain is bad".
WELL.
So now you have a slightly trimmed tree. Pretty nice, yes?
Well, if you take more-
Now, a common... issue? I see is the reaction to the loss of branches. Someone might lose a branch, be self-aware about losing a branch, and then *grow an entirely new branch to deal with the concept of what they lost*.
This is the process of a tree being slowly whittled away and growing back in new and strange patterns. This is why psychedelics result in such strange ideas.
I find the-