7. You can see this tendency in the late Victorian and Edwardian trend towards muscular Christianity and physical exercise. The Victorians, some of them, knew that we needed to get back to the body, and away from split thinking and denigration of the body.
I don’t know what consciousness is. I don’t think anybody does. I don’t know whether what you assert is true or not. What grounds for that statement? I think the Heraclitan answer is that they are/are not...or simply it just “is”.
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You can perceive consciousness, so you know it exists.
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What perceives you perceiving you? “It seems to me that I know, what it is that I know that I know, but what I would like to see, is the ‘I’ that knows me, when I know that I know that I know.
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Irrelevant-we know something exists, even if we can't define it. In fact, it's the only thing we are certain exists.
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“There’s this thing I want to tell you about.” “Great! What does it look like, smell like, taste like?” “No, no. There’s this thing I can’t define, though it’s the essence of particular things” “But you can’t tell me anything about it?” “No, but it definitely exists!”
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Yep, exactly.
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I don’t buy this.
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It's the only thing you can perceive directly and unmediated.
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It assumes an “I” before it starts.
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