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Recieved: 1999/10/05 07:56
Subject: Re: [K-list] Consciousness
From: Martin Thompson

On 1999/10/05 07:56, Martin Thompson posted thus to the K-list:

10:50:13 Tue, 5 Oct 1999
Ville Vainio at Ville Vainio <vvainioATnospamtp.spt.fi> writes:
>Experiences as an abstraction seem to happen. That doesn't suggest they
>are anything special, or essentially different from other things. I might
>throw the old All is One-cliche here.
>
You don't like this specialness idea. Well, I'm not sure that I see
consciousness as anything special anyway, except that I want to know how
it works, or at least, how it *can* work, since my concepts of matter
and energy don't seem to allow for such a phenomenon. Life, I can
understand in principle: very complex chemical reactions. Consciousness?
It just doesn't seem to fit that scenario.

>> I don't think so... Just what has ego to do with it? Are you saying that
>> someone without a personal history in their mind cannot experience?
>
>Ego is not personal history. Ego is the motor that makes consciousness
>seem special. (respectively, spiritual ego makes higher state of
>consciousness seem special). This is a matter of definition of words,
>which is unproductive, though.
>
How does ego make consciousness seem special?
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