Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Is self just a faulty cognitive pattern?

Hey folks, this one is a little verbose and technical but it is a reply to a question posed by Canis Philos. In this discussion we were talking about faulty patterns of cognitions and it became clear that really we are talking about beliefs. This is a WIP but there are some interesting consequences of the reasoning here. >>Do you see the belief in the existence of an 'I' as a faulty pattern then?>> No, I see it...
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