/lit/ - Literature

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Of course, the eliminative materialist reductionist neuroscientist, in the vein of Daniel Dennett, is someone who, in Castaneda's terminology, would be firmly stuck in the "first attention" or the "tonal." When presented with things of the "nagual" or "second attention" (also the body of dreaming, according to Castaneda's literature -- the self we go into while dreaming), they, again, handwave it all away as being reducible to things of the "tonal" or "first attention," the physical material sensory waking normal life. But why? What do they use to justify this reduction? Why can't it be precisely the reverse?

>Chuang Tzu one night went to sleep and dreamed that he was a butterfly. He dreamt that he was flying around from flower to flower and while he was dreaming he felt free, blown about by the breeze hither and thither. He was quite sure that he was a butterfly. But when he awoke he realised that he had just been dreaming, and that he was really Chuang Tzu dreaming he was a butterfly. But then Chuang Tzu asked himself the following question: "was I Chuang Tzu dreaming I was a butterfly or am I now really a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu?"

Is Daniel Dennett really just a biological robot with no real self, or is a soul manifesting through Dennett's body so that Dennett can idiotically use his own higher intelligence and soul to deny the most obvious thing in the world -- that he himself is a soul experiencing phenomena which can't just be reduced to physical atoms and neurochemistry?

Thanks for reading, I don't effortpost often because /lit/ is a place of annoying crude shit-flingers.

Incidentally, Jordan B. Peterson thinks the Book of Revelation is identical to accounts of super high doses of psilocybin mushrooms being ingested. Also, Dr. Rick Strassman was amazed when patients who had never heard anything about DMT or DMT drug trips reported eerily similar things when they took DMT in clinical trials, injected into their arms with a needle, I believe. These accounts were also amazingly similar to accounts of near-death-experiences (NDEs), and he wrote the book "DMT - The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research Into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences", in which he said that these transcendent experiences were more similar to CHRISTIANITY, accounts in the Bible of meetings with angels and the like, than anything else.