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how insight becomes just one more thing to get right
The Ten Thousand Things
An inquiry into how the sense of self arises and maintains coherence. The mechanics of agency, choice, responsibility, and self-stabilizing loops. No teachings, no methods. Observation and description.
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Who Cultivates Attention?
On mindfulness, presence, and the self that thinks it's in charge
Systems, Self and No-Self
A Glossary of Terms
The Reader Who Stopped Seeking
A correspondence, over the course of about a year, with a reader named Kate.
The Late Arrival
In my last essay, The Complexity of Memory, I showed that a memory retrieved intact and a wholly fabricated one can feel the same, with the same sense of pastness, the same sense of ownership, inspiring the same level of confidence—not only confidence in the supposed facts of the event, fabricated or not, but also confidence that a single unified “myself” has persisted through the hiatus between…
The Complexity of Memory
How recall produces the sense of an abiding self
A Conversation. Pierce Salguero and Robert Saltzman.
Not the best quality recording, but a conversation worth hearing, I think.
No View from Outside
Tim Miller has written a review of the Depending On No-Thing audiobook.
The Price Few Will Pay
“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”
Identity and the Unborn
The Radiant Field: