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14 years 11 months ago #2176 by Chris Marti
http://www.newscientist.com/special/the-grand-delusion

Nothing is as it seems. It's over..... and the Buddhists won ;-)
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14 years 11 months ago #2177 by Kate Gowen
Replied by Kate Gowen on topic No Surprise Here, Eh?

Thanks for hanging out on the 'Science' frontier and reporting back, Chris!

Not surprised: all our technology has overdetermined our findings, to date. It was Pascal who said all our problems derive from our inability to sit alone in a room and do nothing-- wasn't it?
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14 years 11 months ago #2178 by Dharma Comarade
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Well, I can sit alone in a room and do nothing -- easy. But I still have a LOT of problems.

Anyway, I just read the little section blurbs of the webpage and it all seems pretty true. But, I guess I'm being lazy, is there any conclusion that one can somehow, at some point, see things as they are? Or is that just another delusion?
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14 years 11 months ago #2179 by Chris Marti
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There is no such thing as a non-mediated experience.
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14 years 11 months ago #2180 by Chris Marti
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There is no such thing as conscious control.
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