This is how I’d summarize most of the reading I’ve done in the past few years: there is no such thing as time, space, emotions, gender, the self, consciousness, or reality. Everything is a concept instantiated in a mental simulation based on predictions
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Hmm, seems the original tweet actually becomes much more clear if you stop talking about specific things and instead just say "there are no things". Which, not incidentally, is the name of Iain McGilchrist's upcoming book. It's a claim not about existence but about thingness.
A similar thought is behind "The Origin of Objects" by Brian Cantwell Smith. He talks and meaning & the limitations of current mechanistic theories of computation:https://youtu.be/USF1H70bRl0
