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Michael W. Taft
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Michael W. Taft

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🦇 Sentient comet 💫 Meditation freak 🙏🏻 Teacher 🍄 Author 🎙Podcaster 📚 SF nerd 🤖 Serial comma enthusiast 🌏 Raised by wolves 🐺 Bad influence 🧝🏻‍♂️

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    1. Anatman‏ @Darin_Draper Feb 7
      Replying to @KennethFolk

      There's only one: I am conscious.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    2. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk Feb 8
      Replying to @Darin_Draper

      Agree you are conscious, but how do you know? In other words, what specific phenomena alert you in this moment to your consciousness?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Jay Mutzafi‏ @JayMutzafi Feb 8
      Replying to @KennethFolk @Darin_Draper

      Any and all

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk Feb 8
      Replying to @JayMutzafi @Darin_Draper

      Photosynthesis is a phenomenon. Does it alert you to your own consciousness in this moment? "Any and all" doesn't capture the essence of the question as it can apply to phenomena at any level of abstraction.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Anatman‏ @Darin_Draper Feb 8
      Replying to @KennethFolk @JayMutzafi

      What if we add the following condition: any and all but only insofar as the phenomena is available to us. For example, pigeons have more colours available to them than humans, and bats have sonar but humans do not.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk Feb 8
      Replying to @Darin_Draper @JayMutzafi

      It has to be sensory input that is low on a ladder of abstraction. Just raw sense data, felt in real time without having to interpret it. Even calling it "absolute" is too much. It's just happening right now and nobody gets to have an opinion about it. Not even me.

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    7. Anatman‏ @Darin_Draper Feb 8
      Replying to @KennethFolk @JayMutzafi

      "Interpretation" of raw sense data is a mental impression in the same way that raw sense data is a mental impression. Buddhists consider thinking as the sixth sense. This is not to say that the conceptual content of thoughts are absolutely true. The content is the abstraction.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    8. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk Feb 8
      Replying to @Darin_Draper @JayMutzafi

      You're right, but be careful with this. Mindfulness of body sensations will outperform any other sense door 100/1. Body doesn't time travel and can't be abstracted. Body is most bang for the buck and the high road to awakeness.

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    9. Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas Feb 8
      Replying to @KennethFolk @Darin_Draper @JayMutzafi

      Just in the spirit of diversity, I’ll add that I find mediation on thinking to be much more powerful/effective than body sensation. So I think there may be some individual variation on this.

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    10. Jay Mutzafi‏ @JayMutzafi Feb 8
      Replying to @OortCloudAtlas @KennethFolk @Darin_Draper

      Might it be more effective (for some/all) once you’ve reached a certain level of ability/concentration first? Does not feel beginner friendly.

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      Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas Feb 9
      Replying to @JayMutzafi @KennethFolk @Darin_Draper

      For some beginners, it's actually an easier place to start. That's what I mean. People are different. One size does not fit all.

      6:48 AM - 9 Feb 2018
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