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Shaun Gallagher
Shaun Gallagher • Phenomenology (Palgrave Philosophy Today)


Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
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For me, it became crucial to notice what is in fact "illusory" about the self. It's not an illusion in the sense of being a completely useless, even malignant, deception. It's a complex of narratives, judgments, and strategies that developed to help me maintain some relatively reliable social-emotional standing. It served, and serves, a purpose.
Waking Up - A New Operating System for Your Mind
In my proposal consciousness is an enriched state of mind. The enrichment consists in inserting additional elements of mind within the ongoing mind process. These additional mind elements are largely cut from the same cloth as the rest of the mind—they are imagetic—but thanks to their contents they announce firmly that all the mental contents to wh
... See moreAntonio Damasio • Feeling & Knowing
Those who choose to continue to see a person as a single monolithic entity held to high standards of coherence will only ever be responding to a fraction of the World of a person.
Ian Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
despite believing myself to be an integrated self, I talk to myself as if I am composed of several ‘people’.