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

“states of Consciousness” Philosophical Concepts and the Virtue Trap / 247
Wolinsky: So, if the concept called “my” consciousness
would believe in the concept called “there is
nothing to know.” Why would it believe in the
concept called “there is nothing to know and
not know,” or even the concept of knowing.
Student: _______Blank_______(silence).
Wolinsky: If this concept called “my” consciousness believed
in the whole thing, including the whole
dialectic—if this whole thing was believed by
the concept of “my” consciousness, what can
the concept called “my” consciousness not communicate
about?
Student: It can’t communicate that it doesn’t exist.
Wolinsky: Tell me a concept that the concept called “my”
consciousness cannot communicate about or
should not communicate about?
Student: That it is all a lie.
Wolinsky: Why would the concept called “my” consciousness
be unwilling to communicate that it is all
a lie.
Student: Well, it believes that this whole structure would
disintegrate then.
Wolinsky: If this concept called “my” consciousness achieved
all this stuff, what must it not experience, or,
what can it not experience?
Student: It must not experience a reference point without
direction.
Wolinsky: What does that mean?
Student: That it is not—
Wolinsky: It cannot experience that or it must not?