On 07 Aug 2009, at 21:27, Johnathan Corgan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 11:35 -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > >> But as Bertrand Russell, David Hume and many mystics have pointed >> out you can wake up and >> realize there is consciousness but the "I" that possesses it is a >> fiction. > > There are also many common reports of what is colloquially called "ego > loss" in the hallucinogenic literature. Users report the experience > of > being "conscious" in that they are awake, perceiving sensory data, and > performing motor functions, but they have no sense of self or "I". I did not see this post, sorry. We agree. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
