00:00Everybody knows suffering is bad and it's part of the human condition, but it is not as dominant
00:06or anywhere near as dominant in Western thinking. We talk of consciousness stripped of the conscious
00:13one and that's a fundamental error or oversight or whatever. How can that happen? How can a rock
00:20is not conscious? My sweater is not conscious, but I am. The existence of the rock is physical.
00:27I have both a physical and a psychic existence. Do you need only the neurological systems in order
00:35to have conscious? Obviously you smash the neurological system and there remains nobody
00:41to call himself. So I don't see how there is any space for any mysticism in this.
