Suppose you are an engineer and you make a machine and in this machine there are a number of sub-units, a number of separate components which are designed to act...
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The most intriguing question of all is, ‘What is self-conscious awareness like when it is no longer self-conscious?’ This is an intriguing question for sure – if it happens to...
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The function of the machine is to eradicate consciousness, to annihilate consciousness, to drive out consciousness, to get rid of every last little trace of consciousness. We are told that...
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What is the everyday mind and why does it sometimes seem like our enemy? Why does it so often turn against us? The mind is what you use to create yourself!...
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Our goals, plans, purposes, theories and strategies are how we avoid the intrinsic uncertainty of life, which – as a general statement – is obvious enough! The whole point about...
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When we say that we can’t be in the world without thinking about being in the world at the same time then this is just another way of saying that...
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In the world which is created by our thoughts nothing else exists apart from pressure. Pressure is all there is in this two-dimensional mind-created world. There’s nothing but pressure in...
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The primary illusion, the illusion behind all other illusions, is that we see everything from the point of view of the self. This might not seem like such a big...
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Reality – from a pragmatic point of view – may be said to be divided into two distinct domains – the domain of structure and the domain of essence. ‘Structure’...
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Life falsifies our illusions. If we had to say what the ‘meaning’ of life was, this would be as good an answer as anything. This doesn’t mean that reality has...
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It is possible to get subsumed within an extraordinarily thin film of consciousness and yet not even to know that this has happened. It’s more than just possible - it...
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Freedom’s a funny thing because as soon as we get it we fall asleep. We fall asleep and start dreaming, and there’s no freedom in dreaming. We might think that...
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