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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
^^oh yeah a. huxley (not thomas) advanced that notion in his peyote book
the brain as a valve to the large mind, not as the seat of the mind
some schools of zen have also a “big mind”theory, search it if curious
even if zen is not of the west it’s been in western culture for nearly a century now, maybe more if you’re jesuit
but anyway this “big mind” business is entirely western
well actually the jungians too... the whole ego/self thing
where does one draw the east/west line
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The book was recommended to me by Rudy Rucker, the cyberpunk author and mathematician