Consciousness Is What Makes The Mind-body Problem

If We Tried To Rely Entirely On Reason, And Pressed It Hard, Our Lives And Beliefs Would Collapse - A Form Of Madness That May Actually Occur If The Inertial Force Of Taking The World And Life For Granted Is Somehow Lost. If We Lose Our Grip On That, Reason Will Not Give It Back To Us.

Altruism Itself Depends On A Recognition Of The Reality Of Other Persons, And On The Equivalent Capacity To Regard Oneself As Merely One Individual Among Many.

The External View [of Agency] Forces Itself On Us At The Same Time That We Resist It. One Way This Occurs Is Through The Gradual Erosion Of What We Do By The Subtraction Of What Happens.

The Great Cognitive Shift Is An Expansion Of Consciousness From The Perspectival Form Contained In The Lives Of Particular Creatures To An Objective, World-encompassing Form That Exists Both Individually And Intersubjectively. It Was Originally A Biological Evolutionary Process, And In Our Species It Has Become A Collective Cultural Process As Well. Each Of Our Lives Is A Part Of The Lengthy Process Of The Universe Gradually Waking Up And Becoming Aware Of Itself.

Everyone Is Entitled To Commit Murder In The Imagination Once In A While, Not To Mention Lesser Infractions.