Re: MD The problem of one self and four discrete levels of static patterns

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Sep 04 2004 - 21:48:13 BST

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    Hi Ilya, Mark:

    Excellent question. IMO believing that self is an illusion is itself an
    illusion. Who can believe the self is an illusion if not a self? Like you,
    I'll be interested in Mark's explanation. I wonder If he'll deny the
    reality of himself. :-)

    Platt

    > Hi Mark,
    >
    > very interesting, really! Still, I don't understand something.
    > How does it happen that in our ordinary life we don't feel
    > ourselves as three separate entities - biological, social and
    > intellectual, but feel ourselves as one whole self?
    > It you say that the self is illusion, then I will ask, THE ILLUSION OF
    > WHOM? I introduced the concept of hierarchy of dominance of patterns to
    > explain this problem and thought the mystery solved. But today I suddenly
    > thought: WHERE or IN WHOM does this hierarchy exist? If there are no place
    > and no one where or in whom the hierarchy exist then the very idea of
    > hierarchy doesn't make any sense! We are exactly where we had started from.
    >
    > Hope you will help to clear things up.
    >
    > Best regards,
    > Ilya

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