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The Taoist Theory of Knowledge

In the psychology of Darwinism, there is no difference between you as observer and whatever it is that you observe. The only thing that is you is the observation of life from a certain point of view. There isn't a knower facing the known. It would be more like saying that if there is any knower at all, it contains the known. Your mind, if you have one, is not in your head. Your head is in your mind because your mind understood from the standpoint of vision is space. And so we say, well, here are these events. And I remember them and they make an impression on me. Now that's the fasting of the heart."

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