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Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

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Nothingness is not nothing at all, so it is physical, but not in the sense of constant presence. Nothingness is disturbing. It is there in a mind-independent sense; it is part of what is given.

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In the U.K. - correct me if I'm wrong - there is a legal definition of 'not being in possession of yourself' aka 'not being a person.' That's the fun thing: someone such as a lawyer needs to define, using some empirical signal, something supposedly transcendental like 'person,' something lawyers argue and argue about regarding, say, chimps in zoos.

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In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 19th, 1968

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