You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

“states of Consciousness” Philosophical Concepts and the Virtue Trap / 239
“my” consciousness?
Student: The consequences would be constant again, it
is so, it diffuses so quickly, constant movement
with a very subtle something behind it about
purpose.
Wolinsky: Okay and what is its purpose by doing this whole
structure and not structure substructure and
organizing, what is the purpose?
Student: It is something to obtain and attain. Sense of
coming home—I don’t even know what that
means.
Wolinsky: How are you doing now?
Student: Strange sensation. Things are running through
my mind. Like I have never been really religious
about anything or had any big belief and yet I
am finding out how this still can run me. I could
say I never really hooked into any real big thing,
and you know, but it is there just the same.
Wolinsky: If the concept called “my” consciousness, which
believed in the concept of the virtue of reason,
which had the concept of an umbrella, had the
concept called awareness of this thing running
through your body, the concept of an awareness
using the concept called figuring it out, the
concept called confusion, the concept called “I’ll
never get it anyway,” but still the striving for it—
if all of these were concepts made of the SAME
underlying SUBSTANCE including the one that
is aware of it, and it all had nothing to do with
anything, then . . . ?
Student: It is blank.