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"Play: Play, therefore, introduces something that can be called “second reality” (Vygotsky, 1978). In this reality the life is going on as if it is the “primary reality,” but with the nice difference that whenever I don’t like what happens, I simply stop the process and go out, or start it anew. This makes play suspiciously like consciousness

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Evan Thompson • Consciousness

"Our various technological prostheses become extensions of our absentmindedness as they become more refined." - Duncan Reyburn

His name was Jean-Paul Sartre. He looked at Descartes’s statement “I think, therefore I am” very deeply and suddenly realized, in his own words, “The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.”

Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans

Thirdly, it is worth thinking deeply about how other people live and how their minds work.

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

He’s saying it’s an objective soul that is the deepest personal.

Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead

CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking; Cyberpsychology: The Journal of Psychosocial Research; and the International Journal of Cyberbehavior.

John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric

We can seek to control the world by reducing it to component parts we feel safe with, relying on our propositional knowledge and outdated assumptions about the nature of rationality. Or, we can let go of control and draw on the liminal perception of the right hemisphere, embracing a participatory knowing the extends beyond ourselves and into the wo... See more

Alexander Beiner • Lost Ways of Knowing

One of the ways in which the ego attempts to escape the unsatisfactoriness of personal selfhood is to enlarge and strengthen its sense of self by identifying with a group

Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans

The Pathless Path captures the idea that in the 21st century, everyone has to think like an artist. In a more stable world, people could conform to traditional life arcs. There were the few, the self-selected, who lived an artistic life: a quest into the unknown guided by self-discovery. Now, because of the shifting landscape, more and more people