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Tuesday, 14 March 2017



Turn it around on itself? No, discover that it is already turned around on itself - everything you need to do is already done, you are redundant! The process goes on but the way it is taken is open. Consciousness is unanchored, is unanchoredness. Interest is what appears to anchor it. It discovers 'being in the present' - this is not a natural state but an achievement built on assumptions, such as time, presence versus absence... In the same way, to have a notion of oneself is a construction and it is only an additional speculation to equate the self with consciousness. It is a contingent necessity, or perhaps a necessary contingency. Imagine your self in another consciousness, or your consciousness with another self. The first of these is easier to imagine than the second. Consciousness cannot be identified in the cognitive sense without being identified in the psychological sense, that is without some part of self, or 'I'-thought, attached to it. There are particular contents by which you seem to recognise yourself - what is the minimal of these? An identity parade - what does it take to identify yourself? Does something identify something else that happens to be the same thing, or it is just the process of identification playing out for no-one, and no-where?

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