Consciousness All the Way Down? (Robert Wright & Bernardo Kastrup)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Is There Such a Thing as Mind Stuff?
The only thing i know to exist is my personal experience. Everything else is a fiction. And the other people i see in my life, they are creations of my own mind. There is nothing it is like to be other people. They exist only in so far as the images i engender and perceive because my mind is creating them in a form of cosmic personal dream. Now do i think that is reasonable? No, i think that's completely unreasonable. Because mentality, mentation is the kind of stuff that is given. So if there is a world outside me, then it's most reasonable and persimonious to say it's just more mentation. It's not my mentation
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