
Consciousness All the Way Down? (Robert Wright & Bernardo Kastrup)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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What You Lose Is Consciousness
Humans can become internally dissociated. It's cald dissociative identity disorder. What you lose is the ability to link your thoughts and cognitively associate them with something that is happening beyond you, beyond your personal self. And yet there is some kind of continuity with the universal consciousness. But that doesn't mean that before life arose, there was no consciousness. There was consciousness. Consciousness is the only thing that exists. Now we know this happens in mind. We know it happens in human minds. In the psychiatric literature, we know thati processes in the brain of a person suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder look like something identifiable. You can diagnoze people with
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