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All attention is introspection.


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At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.



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The self is not a thing, but a process.



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The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.



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Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.



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Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.



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Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.



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Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.



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I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.





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