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Regardless of whether you have an arm or not, there is a perceiver of these sense phenomena. Where is this perceiver? :)
by pokemongoaway 9y ago
Regardless of whether you have an arm or not, there is a perceiver of these sense phenomena. Where is this perceiver? :)
- dwaltrip 9y ago> Where is this perceiver? Shouldn't the one claiming the existence of the thing be the one to describe or identify it? What is this so-called "perceiver" that you reference and are sure exists?
- pokemongoaway 9y agoI don't follow. You don't believe perception is happening? Or are you saying perception doesn't require separation - like a eye can see itself without a mirror?
- dwaltrip 9y agoI'm questioning the idea/nature of a singular, concrete identity, the "self", that is doing the perceiving. This "self", the thing that seems to be the perceiver, might not be what common knowledge describes it to be.
- pokemongoaway 9y agoI'm not claiming there to be a self. I'm claiming that there's a hardened practice for seeing directly the lack of self. The knowing quality is not self. As soon as we speak of neurons, however, we have location in physical space - and therefore, some sort of "self."