PHIL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Grand Illusion, Nirvana (Buddhism), Cartesian Theater
24 Aug 2016
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A mental stage or screen where consciousness happens. The show in the cartesian theatre is the stream of consciousness, and the audience is me. (p. 51) There is a speci c time and place that consciousness happens: there is a time and place where processes int the brain produce conscious experiences. There is a person that consciousness happens to ( i ) Truth vs. truth (difference with the capital t) True knowledge is gained only when the body is separated from the soul/mind. When you die and your body can"t distort your reality, you can experience truth because your soul/mind is detached. Conventional truth: you only know the truth until you die or reach nirvana (buddhism) We all have an internal model of the world. We may be deluded in the nature of our experiences. An illusion is not something that doesn"t exist, but is something that isn"t what it seems to be.
