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The self as a nested hierarchy

functionally, the self is indeed a nested hierarchy. This is because the higher functions of self, such as self-consciousness, are not independent of lower functions, such as basic awareness of…

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L'io si definisce in relazione all'altro

Si parla in modo diverso rivolgendosi a un proprio pari, un superiore, un subordinato o uno straniero. La gerarchia risponde, per grandi linee, a una esigenza…

Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena) #hierarchy #self #language #relationship #confucianism

Everyone you see is asleep

Personally, as a young Marxist, religion had always been anathema to me, and it was only because I was ill in bed and couldn’t find anything else to read that…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #awakening #sleep #time #self #consciousness

Self-awareness is uniquely human

Think about the mood you are now in. Can you identify it? What are you feeling? How would you describe your present mental state? Now think for a minute about…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #consciousness #self #humanity #animals

The ghost in the machine

Each mind is an immortal soul. Bodies, as physical entities, are determined by the laws of physics; but minds have free will. Each of us as a self is…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #dualism #self #soul #consciousness

The self-model model of consciousness

The current thinking in AI is that consciousness is a self-model, which is a device (or mental model) that a machine or human uses to answer questions about…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #consciousness #self #model #artificial-intelligence

The witness as pure consciousness

To what natural state will we revert? To the detached purely attentive consciousness, which has always registered everything we have ever experienced. To what…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #consciousness #nondualism #self #religion