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Waking Up

Earth. Parfit believes that we should view the teleportation case in which a person is destroyed before being…

Sam Harris · book · Seed

(The mind, the self, and the construction of subjective experience)

labyrinth of the brain. And the feeling that there is—the sense of being

civilization is a vast machine invented by the human mind

its states.

repairing a

planet aboard a spacecraft that resembled

khechari mudra, and it is thought to be one of the crowning achievements of

score a point

been the intellectual engagement of one

(Identity, karma, rebirth, and the quality of conscious life)

circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your

the next. If

Earth. Parfit believes that we should view the teleportation case in which a person is destroyed before being

memories, hopes, fears, sensory impressions, and

beliefs about karma and rebirth or imagine

I been peddling some consoling philosophy

calculated to

scientist. Many of his errors are glaring but

Source text is the author's, verbatim. The headings, grouping, and emphasis are mine, added for readability. — Chris

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