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240. Bernardo Kastrup

Buddha at the Gas Pump

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The Mistake of Materialists

Materialists tend to assume that mind equals what is in the field of volition, he says. "I argue that our brain, brain activity, especially certain types of closed-loop processes in the brain, they are not the cause of consciousness" He compares it to a whirlpool: When water self-localizes and rotates around a specific point in the stream, you get a whirl pool. But there is nothing to awhirlpool but water,. Similarly, I would argue that there isNothing to the brain but mind. And then if people say, oh, but I can point to a brain and say, there is a brain, well, you can point to

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