12-29-2010, 12:00 AM
I don't care about the hat's inherent existence. I can't grasp at the inherent essence of a hat. lol. It is the human being who seems more than just a concoction of aggregates that make this notion of a self. What I am grasping at is the needed connection to know that human beings are more than just empty spaces in between another empty space that quantum physics has suggested. When this example is given , "I am in a car driving down the road at 30 mph but rather all that only appears to be taking place within awareness.This is what primordial awareness knows or sees, this sameness."
I would begin to base this thought on the two kinds of presence- local and personal.
One can be locally present, as when driving in the car, but ones thoughts can be far away making one personally not present.
I suppose I am looking for the human element that gives humans their distinct substance.
A quote from John Locke who described a substance as,"something, I know not what."
I would begin to base this thought on the two kinds of presence- local and personal.
One can be locally present, as when driving in the car, but ones thoughts can be far away making one personally not present.
I suppose I am looking for the human element that gives humans their distinct substance.
A quote from John Locke who described a substance as,"something, I know not what."