tl;dr I see my friends talking to brick walls instead of to each other. As I see it, the fundamental question (which no one is addressing) is: Is life precipitated by consciousness, or is life fundamentally a bio/psycho/social phenomenon? If the latter, and if consciousness is merely epiphenomenal (an evolutionary
Consciousness clings to what stability it can find. It does so in a way that is part instinct, part training, and part x. Solve for x, and you will have isolated/identified that which feels it is ‘living freely’ in some sense. Does x = self? mind? ego? No; these are
i thought i was casting off illusion when i left christianity, and indeed i was, but it would seem that i left one veiled world for another i am told that the mind is itself a veil, constantly filtering a cacophony of inputs into a disorderly stack of papers –
I have, in the dark recesses of my mind, various gods. Various ideas which have solidified. Ideas to which I pay homage. Ideas to which I prostrate myself on occasion (knowingly or otherwise). Ideas with which I plead. Jealous and unreasonable gods. Other persons maintain in their minds the idea