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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 19, 2016 at 1:27 pm
(May 19, 2016 at 1:25 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: If you put person A's memories and experiences in person B, then you are pretty much erasing both A and B and getting person C, because the mind, body and everything else together forms the unique individual.
Person A might disagree with that assessment.
Would A be wrong?
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 19, 2016 at 1:28 pm
Then there's the question of whether we are "the same person" from one moment to the next. Physically we are not, which is going to alter us mentally as well. It's just kind of convenient to string it all together and call it "a person's experiences".
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 19, 2016 at 1:29 pm
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(May 19, 2016 at 1:18 pm)quip Wrote: (May 19, 2016 at 1:03 pm)Rhythm Wrote: We have? LOL, news to me. Seems that there must have been more than brain processes involved in making me who I am, after all...the length of my legs doesn't have much to do with a brain process.
On the contrary, "my legs" has everything to do with the brain's capacity to identify to them as such.
Oh boy, the frame shift is so compelling! People who describe experiencing phantom limbs still can't open a coke can with their severed hands....but I'll be sure to tell all the fellas at the VA that a buddhist told me that their condition had everything to do with their brains capacity to identify it as such - or some such faux enlightened garbage.
-at least try....
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 19, 2016 at 1:32 pm
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2016 at 1:34 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
The experiences are in no way separate from the experiencer. We don't exactly live inside our own phenomenological experience... We ARE our phenomenological experience.
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 19, 2016 at 1:34 pm
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(May 19, 2016 at 1:28 pm)robvalue Wrote: Then there's the question of whether we are "the same person" from one moment to the next. Physically we are not, which is going to alter us mentally as well. It's just kind of convenient to string it all together and call it "a person's experiences".
This subject seems to have taken on an ironic Buddhist flavor.
(May 19, 2016 at 1:32 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: The experiences are in no way separate from the experiencer. We don't exactly live inside our own phenomenological experience... We ARE our phenomenological experience.
Careful....you're treading dangerously close to that metaphysical precipice!
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 19, 2016 at 1:37 pm
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Maybe, if you'd stop sprinkling bullshit all over the place, it wouldn't taste like buddhism in here?
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 19, 2016 at 1:39 pm
Secular aspects of Buddhism isn't necessarily all wrong. Karma? That's bullshit. Reincarnation? Bullshit. Meditation? Has never worked for me personally. The indivisibility of our conscious selves? Not bullshit, science supports it.
It may be described in Buddhism but it's not actually a supernatural aspect of it.
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 19, 2016 at 1:40 pm
(May 19, 2016 at 1:29 pm)Rhythm Wrote: (May 19, 2016 at 1:18 pm)quip Wrote: On the contrary, "my legs" has everything to do with the brain's capacity to identify to them as such.
Oh boy, the frame shift is so compelling! People who describe experiencing phantom limbs still can't open a coke can with their severed hands....but I'll be sure to tell all the fellas at the VA that a buddhist told me that their condition had everything to do with their brains capacity to identify it as such - or some such faux enlightened garbage.
-at least try....
The brain works in mysterious ways
If this had anything to do with the subject at hand (pun intended) ....then it might've held a point.
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 19, 2016 at 1:41 pm
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I doubt it's actually described in buddhism at all...more an issue of buddhists -seeing- or -hearing- buddhism everywhere, in every comment made by anyone on any subject. Bit like this thread.
(and, ofc..wherever they don't see buddhism...it's irrelevant....lol)
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 19, 2016 at 1:41 pm
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(May 19, 2016 at 1:34 pm)quip Wrote: (May 19, 2016 at 1:32 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: The experiences are in no way separate from the experiencer. We don't exactly live inside our own phenomenological experience... We ARE our phenomenological experience.
Careful....you're treading dangerously close to that metaphysical precipice!
That might be because I like metaphysics.
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