"an adaptive form of self-deception, namely, an illusion of personal identity across time" http://edge.org/response-detail/25446 …
@sarahdoingthing @cwage Sure. Guy lost me when he argued 'the self doesn't exist 2/3rds of the time, therefore it doesn't exist at all'.
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing@cwage Collapses into blatant internal contradictions when you poke at it. Grump grump grump -
@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing@cwage concur grumpgrumpgrumpgrumpgrump -
@St_Rev Several fairly smart Buddhists promote Metzinger’s model, and I’ve been tempted to debunk it, but you can only debunk so many things -
@Meaningness Continental philosophers: getting Buddhism, Daoism and Hinduism wrong for 150 years and still going strong. -
@St_Rev Yeah; but lots of people dismiss Continental philosophy. Hardly anyone dismisses analytic philosophy of mind; also totally wrong. -
@Meaningness Analytic philosophy is plundering different sources for wrong ideas tho
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing@cwage He’s got a deeply confused theory of self. Appeals to Buddhists who don’t understand it. -
@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing@cwage ...short periods of hard voluntary work followed by long periods of allowing the problem to settle.
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