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When your brain identifies something outside yourself, it makes an image, no doubt, but who is looking at this image? A mini-you, a homunculus, sitting at the back of the brain? If so, then who is looking at the homunculus? The puzzle is solved by a tangled hierarchy: for the brain the observer becomes the observed; consciousness identifies with the brain, leaving the impression that there is just you looking at an object separate from you. Visit amitgoswami.org
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:46:07 +0000

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