New Poll Reveals: Americans answer poll questions with the first inane brain-fart that seems to them to justify their current situation.
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1/I'm using them in an arbitrary fashion, just to denote the sequence of discovery. Thus it is plausible infants through soft-assembly and learning develop a sense of "self" concept, then gradually learn of the implications, until (to their horror) they learn of the existence of
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2/the "other," and through further extension the reality that their "self" is not omnipotent, causative powers must be learned, and finally that the seemingly-immortal "self" is subject to negation. So in a sense all thoughts occur within the boundary of "self," "not-self," and
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3/the potential for negation --- but infants could just as well perceive the "other" first, and identify with it in a causative way, as a practicing panpsychist or animist, and only construct a coherent "self" later; no real difference!
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I’ve got some literature in the trunk of my car I need to share with you. Only thing is, first I need to write it and then get a car with a trunk to put it in...
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Btw have you read in the Tiantai Buddhist tradition specifically? Seems up your alley
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