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

“states of Consciousness” Philosophical Concepts and the Virtue Trap / 243
Wolinsky: Yes, “I” do.
there is deception just in communication, do
you understand what I am saying?
Student: In communication there is inevitably a point of
reference, and if you take that point of reference
and go with it, that is where it takes you. You
have the two things but all things have to meet
somewhere.
Wolinsky: If this concept called “two things have to meet
somewhere” (We are getting into the seed of
consciousness called Hegel’s dialectic: Two opposing
things will meet somewhere, and they
create a third as a synthesis).
Student: There is this deep thing about that.
Wolinsky: Of course there is, you did not come up with
that out of nothing.
Student: I did not know, where it came from.
Wolinsky: That is the whole thing. The dialectic. So, if there
is a structure called “my” consciousness, which
believes in the concept called this ultimate virtue,
and which believes in the concept called an
umbrella and the thing that runs through, and
the concept called “you really can’t get it,” and
the counter concepts called figuring out, confusion,
and action, also that they should get it, but
since they can’t possibly get it, then I should be
able to have the understanding and the virtue,
but I can’t possibly have that anyway, but then
after all, with two points they do meet at a third
angle up there. Now, if all of this were concepts
made of the same consciousness of the concept
called “my” consciousness, which had nothing