I’ve been thinking about this, after a conversation between @evantthompson, @keithfrankish and @distributedcog. The analogy to stage magic in some Buddhist Yogacara texts does recommend illusionism about consciousness as the right account. (Cf. Dennett 2016)
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This is such a tricky issue, as I believe in a persisting biological process, but I also deny the existence of selves as ontological posits. Selflessness generates a kind of phenomenological distancing from the solicitations that are usually present in the world. 1/2
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I don't see why no-self theorists can't continue to speak of *persons* existing and acting and being subject to illusions. They are just rejecting a certain metaphysical account of what persons are, aren't they?
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what's the difference between a representation and a mis-representation?
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A misrepresentation presents something as being there that isn't really there apart from the representation.
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