Thursday, May 15

I Am Not

I am not reflecting light
I am not already present in the light.
I am not language
I am not response to tangible and realistic dangers.
I am not something questionable or unknown.
I am not negative self-talk
I am not being threatened by a rival.
I am not the nature of knowledge
I am not any system of molecules in a mixture of gasses
I am not something that will prove to be useful or successful in some sense
I am not determined in principle solely by how I relate to objective reality, or by whether I accurately describes that reality.
I am not a point moving in space-time
I am not the world, universe, all physical objects, or abstract objects.
I am not being-in-itself or being-for-itself
I am not a philosophical zombie
I am not an exhaustive combination of multiple colors of pigment
I am not a reductive or non-reductive physicalist position
I am not described by an underlying theory.
I am not consciousness or unconsciousness
I am not an animal
I am not something that is entitative
I am not all that exists
I am not able to breath or think or eat
I am not a feral child
I am not afraid of losing
I am not android who lacks human emotions
I am not worthless
I am not famous (or infamous)
I am not omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, omnibenevolence (perfect goodness), divine simplicity, jealous, or eternal and necessary existence.
I am not pure awareness
I am not a tracks already available on the long playing album
I am not a a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics.
I am not entirely in isolation from any effect that might touch my behavior and behavioral disposition.
I am not my behavior
I am not defined as qualities or sensations
I am not unhappy with my life
I am not the lack or absence of something, rather than of anything
I am not able to impress anyone
I am not an infinite variety of universes
I am not anarchist symbolism,
I am not basic emotions or other mental states
I am not happy with my life
I am not a biological organism
I am not different things
I am not the true Dharma eye, the marvelous mind of Nirvana, the true form of the formless, or the subtle dharma gate that does not rest on words or letters.
I am not of indeterminate value and definition
I am not composed of an independently existing fliud substance
I am not a blue sky
I am not my fear
I am not persisting through time
I am not mechanistic
I am not vegetarian
I am not the seat of intelligence
I am not a being with the neurological prerequisites to understand moral consequences and take his life morally seriously
I am not potentially threatening
I am not a mirror-reflected copy
I am not subject to dispute and re-interpretation based on alternate definitions
I am not composed of atoms and electrons
I am not an immoralist
I am not to be taken seriously as a component of my experience
I am not an eleven-dimensional not consistent supergravity reduction line
I am not outside of any psychological states
I am not sugar, foam, pure sand or snow, cotton, clouds, or milk
I am not recasting knowledge
I am not difficult or impossible to convey
I am not

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