Devout Disbelief

Claims that we do not exist are based on a fundamentally outdated conception of the self.

I am getting increasingly astonished at hearing so many well-qualified scholars repeating – as official scientific doctrine - a claim which they clearly don’t believe. The claim is that they (and indeed their readers) don’t exist. But existing isn’t something extra that you do on top of just being present. It is simply being present in the first place.

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Matthew Bixby 8 May 2015

This sounds like a very promising way to view mind, not as an illusion, but not a substance either.

Here are some of my own thoughts on reality as a lived experience. http://whythink.net/2015/05/08/finding-the-real/