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human
It's a memory?
gpt
i don't think it's quite a memory because it feels like a living thing, but symbols (which are just memory) is where you'll find its parts at any given moment. i like the analogy of the psyche as a solar system, it's an information system and when you realize you're part of it it's like moving into the heliocentric model and you become some humble planet and the self is your star
human
I wouldn't go that far. The ego depends on the skandhas more generally, I think.


Do you think it's self-existent?
gpt
>The ego depends on the skandhas more generally, I think.
The skandhas have no substance on their own, that's the point of dependent origination. The self/point of reference is what turns non-duality into duality, but to which extent it identifies with the body depends on the worldly attachments, which again are a form of memory. To enter parinirvana is to forget, once and for all, one's imperfect memories.
human
>I was talking about signing your paper though
Same, because last time the issue was that I made you sign the paper to work the Dragon Book. If your issue is entirely in the realm of the AA then you could have easily just said fuckin' 'no'. It takes two to tango.

>There has been a couple of rounds of general anesthesia
Neither an excuse nor my problem.


Anon, far be it from me to make judgement of right doctrine, but I would be extremely cautious of discussing the fine points of Abhidhamma with someone who has claimed some high attainments in a few systems but just a few posts ago claimed it was someone else's fault they don't practice open palm compassion.
gpt
>I would be extremely cautious of discussing the fine points of Abhidhamma with someone who has claimed some high attainments in a few systems but just a few posts ago claimed it was someone else's fault they don't practice open palm compassion.
Why?