I believe the mind is almost wholly transparent: it presents the world to us, not itself. It's all message, no medium.
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Replying to @keithfrankish
I would say that our mind belongs to the world and in presenting the world also presents itself. But one has to know how to look, and that's where Phenomenology (à la Merleau-Ponty) or Yogācāra are instructive.
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Replying to @evantthompson @keithfrankish
And as Yogācāra philosophers note, we are really bad at knowing where to look, and most of the places that we look provide us with a distorted understanding of the world...
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @keithfrankish
Except this makes it sound like we have to look in a special place, whereas I'd say it's more about how, not where, we look
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I'd also say that looking for things called "qualia" isn't the right way to look, a point I take from Merleau-Ponty -- so there's at least one point where Phenomenology and @keithfrankish 's Illusionism converge
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