My experience, at least, suggests otherwise. Attention functions integrally in the various flavors of Buddhism I've practiced without recourse to a substantial or enduring self. Perhaps we're working with different aspects or definitions of attention, but I see no contradiction.
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Replying to @NoaidiX
Different definitions of self? Did you read the posts where the similarities between attention and electricity were discused? Moving away from biological properties to electrical properties seeds become capacitors storing the current of experience.
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Replying to @memeristor
Different definitions of attention, but likely self as well. I understand electricity to be a metaphor for a process. The same goes for seeds and all the various other images that are invoked. Do you see them some other way, perhaps as literal entities?
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Replying to @NoaidiX
More then a metaphor. No one suggested entities. I am asserting that the other side of our physiology is electrical that attention is in fact electrical in nature that our default states of semi consciousness can be be nicely described with electrical theory.
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
That transcendent states fit nicely into the functional properties of memristors.
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
Certainly you accept that you have a body maintained through a variety of chemical and electrical processes. Is it likely the the electrical properties are merely secondary artifacts?
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Replying to @memeristor
I accept it with several extended footnotes.
Typically, I'm inclined to treat mind/consciousness as "primary" but equally as insubstantial as body/physicality. These are just different ways of describing experience.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @NoaidiX
Respectfully that is sophistry. If cause and affect is accepted as real then the physical spectrum in its entirety must also be accepted as the Real World. It may not be the real world as imagined nevertheless the knife cuts the roof shields and the fire burns.
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Replying to @memeristor
There seems to be some kind of strawman at play here. I don't deny causality, nor physicality, nor morality. These are all aspects of experience. I understand mind (i.e., intention) as playing a primary role in all of them.
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No problem, friend!
Pardon any lack of clarity on my end.
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Replying to @memeristor
We all have our seeds, many of them mutual. Now to selectively cultivate them, tending the crops and rooting out the weeds through wise attention. Thanks for the conversation.
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