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diff --git a/essays/flyntian_modality.tex b/essays/flyntian_modality.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a153ec1 --- /dev/null +++ b/essays/flyntian_modality.tex @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +\chapter{Instructions for the Flyntian Modality} + +\begin{enumerate} + +\item \textsc{ Stop all \enquote{gross believing,} such as belief in other minds, causality, and the phantom entities of science (atoms, electrons, \etc).} + +\item \textsc{Stop thinking in propositional language.} + +\item \textsc{Stop all scientific hypothesizing. Do not consider your "sightings" of the empire state building as confirmations that it is there when you are not looking at it --- or for that matter, as confirmations that it is there when you \emph{are} looking at it.} + +\item \textsc{Stop organizing visual experiences and tactile experiences into object-gestalts. Stop organizing so-called "different spatial orientations or different touched surfaces of objects" into object-gestalts. That is, stop having perceptions of objects.} + +\item \textsc{Stop believing in past and future time. That is, live out of time. Stop feeling longing, dread, or regret.} + +\item \textsc{Stop believing that you can move your body.} + +\item \textsc{Stop believing that these instructions have any objective meaning.} + +\item \textsc{You are now free to walk through walls (if you can find them).} +\end{enumerate} + |