Dualism is what happens when you walk around with a virtual reality machine in your head. Other people with their intentions, their feelings toward us, their reactions to events, are mental constructs. Normally these creations correlate with actual, physical people in our environment. But sometimes the other person isn't there, yet our sense of the other personality is so strong, it's as if they are somehow present.
Yes it is. I have experienced this. Yet I think it must be such a powerful projection of the mind intense enough for us to feel it is really 'out there'. I think this happens in the religious.
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Premiul mult Visat
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Buna fetelor, m-am bucurat tare mult cand Dana m-a anuntat ca am primit si
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Yes it is. I have experienced this. Yet I think it must be such a powerful projection of the mind intense enough for us to feel it is really 'out there'. I think this happens in the religious.
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