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The Hard Problem of Consciousness
271
How to Ignore Your Emotions (while also thinking you're awesome at emotions)
Hazard
3y
71
266
Book summary: Unlocking the Emotional Brain
Kaj_Sotala
3y
37
243
Feeling Rational
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
83
236
Roles are Martial Arts for Agency
Eneasz
8y
59
233
Building up to an Internal Family Systems model
Kaj_Sotala
3y
84
221
Learned Blankness
AnnaSalamon
11y
188
220
The Importance of Sidekicks
Swimmer963
7y
209
208
Cached Selves
AnnaSalamon
13y
81
198
The curse of identity
Kaj_Sotala
11y
306
178
What it's like to dissect a cadaver
Alok Singh
1mo
18
164
Philosophical Landmines
9y
146
161
Why Subagents?
johnswentworth
3y
42
158
Belief in Belief
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
176
157
Cached Thoughts
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
94
215
The 5-Second Level
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11y
328
188
My attempt to explain Looking, insight meditation, and enlightenment in non-mysterious terms
Kaj_Sotala
4y
133
180
Noticing the Taste of Lotus
Valentine
4y
80
148
Book Summary: Consciousness and the Brain
Kaj_Sotala
3y
21
141
The Felt Sense: What, Why and How
Kaj_Sotala
2y
21
132
The benefits of madness: A positive account of arationality
Skatche
11y
123
121
A mechanistic model of meditation
Kaj_Sotala
3y
8
119
Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
217
114
A non-mystical explanation of insight meditation and the three characteristics of existence: introduction and preamble
Kaj_Sotala
2y
37
105
The Hard Work of Translation (Buddhism)
romeostevensit
3y
132
102
Zombies! Zombies?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
156
100
Trauma, Meditation, and a Cool Scar
Logan Riggs
3y
17
97
The limits of introspection
Scott Alexander
11y
43
97
A non-mystical explanation of "no-self" (three characteristics series)
Kaj_Sotala
2y
64