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565. Iain McGilchrist

Buddha at the Gas Pump

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The Renaissance and the Limits of Perception

The idea that there is a sort of world out there beyond our consciousness and that there's another world inside that can never really contact it well he considered a false point of view i think i do too. There are limits very very severe limits on my consciousness but the tiny part that i do see is real it's not a fiction. Our brains anticipate what they may be going to experience and so come up with things from memory  but these shouldn't be confused with the idea that somehow there is no contact between consciousness and reality. I adopt a position which is out of line with an Italian philosopher who takes the view that when we are conscious of things in space around us they are where we

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