http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/03-12-13/ Promoting Science and Critical Thinking Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:58:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/03-12-13/#comment-2532 dom Salute Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:32:42 +0000 http://www.skeptic.com/eSkeptic/?p=467#comment-2532 It never ceases to amaze me how such supposedly modern intellectuals can be more metaphysically ridiculous than those they criticize for being ridiculous. This a perfect example. There is ZERO evidence of Metzinger's "thesis". It never ceases to amaze me how such supposedly modern
intellectuals can be more metaphysically ridiculous than those they criticize for being ridiculous. This a perfect example. There is ZERO evidence of Metzinger’s “thesis”.

]]> http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/03-12-13/#comment-39 james boag Sat, 16 May 2009 02:23:31 +0000 http://www.skeptic.com/eSkeptic/?p=467#comment-39 Actually I do not find the idea at all unlikely, consciousness is a gathering process, and that which gathers creates its own centre. Identity is a highly functional illusion and consciousness is non-local. One might ask, when one dies what is it that dies, if not all that which has been gathered. Is consciousness the container or that which is contained? Indeed it is not without ultimate mystery, from what did this arise, if not a field of consciousness. To quote the Upanishads, the salt doll walks into the cosmic ocean. Actually I do not find the idea at all unlikely, consciousness is a gathering process, and that which gathers creates its own centre. Identity is a highly functional illusion and consciousness is non-local. One might ask, when one dies what is it that dies, if not all that which has been gathered. Is consciousness the container or that which is contained? Indeed it is not without ultimate mystery, from what did this arise, if not a field of consciousness. To quote the Upanishads, the salt doll walks into the cosmic ocean.

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