The purpose of meditation is to gain control over attention: the width, depth and intensity of our focus, and the degree of control over its object.
I had the impression that neither was listening to the arguments of the others, and shouted against a strawman version of them. Chomsky is still around and became a mysterianist.
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“mysterianist” is a new term for me. Based on this explanation: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27017 … ...it sounds like one more form of pessimism. A sophisticated, appealing, yet ultimately irrational reason to give up.
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Does ANYONE you know think seriously that we can know " the thing in itself"? Replace * thing* with whatever you like.
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