Mind Transfer at Will
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/07/07
Robert Anton Wilson commented on the “‘is’ of being.” What *is* it “to be”? We don’t really know. He got a lot of things wrong, because he was willing to explore a lot of different options, but he, also, got some things right.
Socrates and Plato had that right. They didn’t seem to go quite far enough: Not only do we not know what we each are, fundamentally, but we cannot know. We’re epistemically and ontically closed to reality in some base sense.
We’re bound to the senses and the concepts formed on the basis of those senses, and the language to describe the interpretive frame of those impressions from the senses. We can get out of this, a bit, through reasoning and scientific inquiry.
Yet, we do not know who we are or what the universe in some full sense is, but, if you’re willing to put yourself in a state of vulnerable openmindedness, then you can explore the world and learn, and grow. But it takes effort. A greater sense of what seems and how you appear to yourself and others.
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