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Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Anil Seth • 1 highlight
Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick.
Tony Kent • No Way to Die
suggests that the self and its relation to the world is not merely a mental phenomenon. It has a sensual, embodied, and material dimension, and changes, even subtle ones, to the texture our experience can have profound consequences.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
Selfhood in humans is not the expression of any central unity. We are programmed to perceive identity in ourselves, when in truth there is only change, We are hardwired for the illusion of self.
- John Gray, as quoted by Tim Carpenter in To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die
- John Gray, as quoted by Tim Carpenter in To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die
Thom Wong • Being Yourself (S2E3)
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.