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"That is not the residue I am talking about," he said, laughing. "The
idea of the abstract, the spirit, is the only residue that is
important. The idea of the personal self has no value whatsoever. You
still put yourself and your own feelings first. Every time I've had the
chance, I have made you aware of the need to abstract. You have always
believed that I meant to think abstractly. No. To abstract means to
make yourself available to the spirit by being aware of it."
He
said that one of the most dramatic things about the human condition was
the macabre connection between stupidity and self-reflection.
It
is stupidity that forces us to discard anything that does not conform
with our self-reflective expectations. For example, as average men we
are blind to the most crucial piece of knowledge available to a human
being: the existence of the assemblage point and the fact that it could
move.
"For a rational man," he went on, "it's unthinkable that
there is an invisible point where perception is assembled. And yet more
unthinkable that such a point is not in the brain, as he might vaguely
expect it to be; if he were given to entertaining the thought of its
existence."
He added that for the rational man to hold steadfastly to his self-image insured his abysmal ignorance.

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