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The idea that the world we experience is a solipsistic delusion projected from the interior of our mind consoles rather than disturbs us, since it conforms with our infantile fantasies of omnipotence; but the thought that our so-called interiority owe its existence to a fictionalized consensus will always carry an uncanny charge.
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The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality
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One common observation is that psychedelics destabilize longrange cortical communication patterns and reduce activity in the posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus in the posterior regions of the neocortex. This is the compatible with our knowledge of the brains of people trained in mindfulness. It appears that the less these midline structures a
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Bennett Gilbert • On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays
A/ While we’re alive, we’re constantly "on", running in a kind of loop. Greg Egan and other writers and philosophers have debated whether conscious experience depends on a "LOOP": a "cognitive loop for self-reflection."
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