The appearance of this bit of information in the Hacker News Collective Consciousness RAM is likely linked to a recent discussion about a recent article that attempts attempts to define consciousness and whether it exists in everything all the time or is localized somewhere in space ("Consciousness Isn’t Self-Centered").
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Why do folks present this idea like it's new and radical? It's literally thousands of years old.
Aldous Huxley wrote "The Perennial Philosophy" in 1945.
Quote: Why do folks present this idea like it's new and radical? It's literally thousands of years old. Aldous Huxley wrote "The Perennial Philosophy" in 1945.