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

242 / You Are Not
Student: Nothing_______Blank_______.
Wolinsky: If the concept called “my” consciousness were to
believe in the concept called an ultimate ideal, a
virtue and a concept called an umbrella, which
runs through your body, organized around it but
you shouldn’t be aware of it, which is techniques
that the counter techniques on this is going to
be confusion and figuring it out in actions; the
concept called I can never obtain this anyway,
but I have to try, but I can’t get it anyway, if the
concept called, other people should have it, but
if they don’t have it, then I can understand it
or I should be able to understand it, because I
should have that virtue, but I will never get that
anyway—if the concept called “my” consciousness
believed all of that, what could it do to
itself?
Student: Keep that whole loop going.
Wolinsky: This concept called “my” consciousness, which
believes in the concept of incredible ideal virtue,
which has kind of a concept of an umbrella,
the concept of something running through it,
that is aware of it, but also the counter concept
called confusion, figuring it out and action, the
concept called “I’ll never get it anyway, but the
other person should get it and I should get it,
but of course I don’t get it and I can never get
it,” and that whole looping, if it were to believe
all of this, how could the concept of “my” consciousness
deceive another concept called “my”
consciousness?
Student: I think that even the whole way of communicating
of even language, subtlety presupposes that