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concept:zombie-state-loss-of-selfZombie State (Loss of Self)
The condition of modern people who have lost their inner voice and become inured to ugliness, described as 'almost like zombies'.
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- Concluding chapter of Volume 3, summarizing the vision of a living world created through unfolding wholeness.
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- A maximally dereified state analogous to meditative cessation, reported in language models as the void taking over awareness.
- The deadening effect of modern processes that prevent people from acting according to their feeling for the whole, damaging the global whole.
- The personal experience of being a self, which is left out of the mechanistic world-picture but is central to the new wholeness-based view.
- Model of agency in which self is constituted by dynamical patterns of care and goal-pursuit rather than permanent substance or essence.
- The state in which one sees the structure perfectly and makes the perfect structure-preserving response; paradoxically reached through the deeply personal act of pleasing oneself.
- Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
- The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.