Sublime

realism, or a “realist empiricism.”117

The right hemisphere perceives that there is permanence even where there is flow.

We prefer the terms reflexive and deliberative

For all these people, taking their own position seriously as an explanation of the world would lead them directly to realism and Galilean rationality.

The “self” that is the observer arises from the self-referential act of self-modeling.

by understanding the true nature of ourselves and how our identities and belonging actually can be expanded beyond the body as a center of sensation, perspective, and agency, we come to a wider view of how we are in fact connected with one another as human beings and within nature as members of a broader belonging, an identity that is integrated wi

Consciousness, for instance, isn’t for Kant some mysterious entity that needs to be explained; rather, it is nothing other than the necessary presumed unity that allows there to be a timeline against which I order and distinguish my perceptions.

The self is another perception, another controlled hallucination, though of a very special kind.

there are philosophers of the humanities who think that there is no such thing as reality, since it’s all Made Up Miraculously By Ourselves (MUMBO): naïve idealism. Such people, by the way, never behave as though there was no reality. Nor of course, by its own logic, can they claim any truth for their position.