On 07 Aug 2009, at 21:27, Johnathan Corgan wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 11:35 -0700, Brent Meeker wrote:
>
>> But as Bertrand Russell, David Hume and many mystics have pointed
>> out you can wake up and
>> realize there is consciousness but the "I" that possesses it is a
>> fiction.
>
> There are also many common reports of what is colloquially called "ego
> loss" in the hallucinogenic literature. Users report the experience
> of
> being "conscious" in that they are awake, perceiving sensory data, and
> performing motor functions, but they have no sense of self or "I".
I did not see this post, sorry. We agree.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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