enh, there are other options, like in a simulation scenario where your body is hardware, your mind is software, and your free will is user input but really choice is just a post hoc quale of the part of your mind that exists to come up with a plausible story for the cops
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime and
Read up on Gnosticism I guess. My only beef with it is it was invented by people who didn't have video games, and who thus assumed the simulation was Malicious.
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Replying to @PomoPsiOp @chaosprime and
it was a rhetorical question, I have indeed read up on gnosticism. I can think of a dozen answers from different systems off the top of my head and every one of them is unsatisfactory. nobody gets much further than noticing that the ego vanishes under examination.
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Replying to @danlistensto @PomoPsiOp and
I don't believe the ego vanishes. Elaborate?
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Replying to @Alrenous @PomoPsiOp and
I'm trying to decide how to answer and not do so in a way that satisfies my own humor or wit or sensibilities, but rather to answer in a way that will be useful for you. I don't know you though so I can't answer in any useful way until I know you a little bit better.
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Replying to @danlistensto @Alrenous and
Do you meditate? If I link the text of a Zen koan will you find that helpful or irritating?
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Replying to @danlistensto @PomoPsiOp and
I do. I enjoy both the one about the robber and the moon and the one about one hand clapping.
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Replying to @Alrenous @PomoPsiOp and
wonderful! the one that came to mind for this case is #29 from Mumonkan http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/glg/glg29.htm …
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Replying to @danlistensto @Alrenous and
the other comment I'd like to make is just to say that the ego is a Ship of Theseus
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so it vanishes swiftly when examined in a flash, and it vanishes slowly when examined over time. it's hardly a thing at all. it's the thing that say's "me I'm here" but doesn't even know who's saying it.
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