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Consciousness Physics - Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Essentia Foundation

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The Body Is a Dashboard Representation of Mental Processes

I think we interpret the daily evidence of observation like the obvious correlation between our mental states and our physical state in a perhaps natural but an extremely wrong way. I don't think the mind is in the body at all. It's wrong to look for the mind in the networks of neurons inside my nervous system. To me the body is a dashboard representation of mental processes dissociative private mental processes that can only be seen from across a dissociative boundary. The thing in itself the numinum the wheel of Schopenhauer it's dissociated mental inner life that we call our lives our experiences. We can represent ourselves on our own dashboard by looking in the mirror.

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