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It is usually only when you wake up from a dream when you find out it was only a dream. You are making the mistake, as many do, of assuming that the illusion i
by podgaj 5y ago
It is usually only when you wake up from a dream when you find out it was only a dream.
You are making the mistake, as many do, of assuming that the illusion is not real. The illusion is real, but the ego, which is created by the illusion, is not real.
One would say seeing a person floating during a magician act was real because we experienced it, but the only thing real was the illusion performed by the magician.
- dvt 5y ago> You are making the mistake, as many do, of assuming that the illusion is not real. The illusion is real, but the ego, which is created by the illusion, is not real. Gobbledygook nonsense. People much smarter than both of us have been asking these questions since the dawn of time, best get to some reading.
- wruza 5y ago“Some reading” consists of thousands of books, which some of us unfortunately(?) have no time to grep. Can you provide some concise excerpts which are to the point? It seems unlikely that this question is raised for the first time and there is no “wiki” to point to. Ps. I’m not “link!”-ing you, just asking for a way to learn something without burying myself for a lifetime into works which mostly disagree with each other.
- smokel 5y agoA good starting point may be "Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings", edited by David Chalmers. A second edition was recently published. It contains papers by most important philosophers in the field of 'philosophy of mind'. The papers are surprisingly accessible, and require little to no prior knowledge.