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Thursday, 23 September 2021

Attention to experiencing includes an implicit idea of a stream of experiences as if these were a kind of contents in a flow of time, like music or a film or a stream of point realisations or qualia or what is known in jargon as a 'feed' - your experiencing as a feed. The complex of references to past and future and to other levels of context is simply folded in. Even the soul is operationalised in this paradigm. This is one of the ideas that holds us captive and is impossible to think your way out of, although there is a cottage industry in presenting structures of thought that purport to do so. The soul is homeless, what is it for?

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