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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Replying to @evantthompson @keithfrankish
Ah...intriguing...is learning to look at the world without imposing a grāhya-grāhaka distinction shifting just the how, or is it shifting the where as well...
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @evantthompson
grāhya-grāhaka distinction = ? (roughly)
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Replying to @keithfrankish
See J Garfield's piece in JCS inspired by your illusionism piece; he discusses how the apparent subject-object structure of consciousness is a cognitive illusion according to Yogācāra Buddhist philosophy
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Replying to @evantthompson @keithfrankish
I also really like this paper by Jonathan Gold, though it's much deeper in the weeds:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09552360500491817 …
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I like this one, too. It's revised as part of his book, Paving the Great Way.https://cup.columbia.edu/book/paving-the-great-way/9780231168274 …
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