The Idea Of Separate Selves Is (A Useful) Fiction - Deepstash

The Idea Of Separate Selves Is (A Useful) Fiction

But those problems can be circumvented by never giving in to the metaphysical assumption of the existence of one physical world that is opposed to many separated selves in the first place. According to the theory of conscious agents, the idea of fundamentally separated selves is a useful fiction that arises only if we conflate what we see on the interface with the true reality of non-dual consciousness.

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