Isolated environments lead to greater speciation and biodiversity, a concept famously discovered by Charles Darwin during his studies of the Galapagos Islands. Darwin noticed that if two island species descended from a common ancestor, they…meditated before, what surprised me most was not just the actual
sensations, but realizing that such extraordinary states had been locked
away in my mind this whole time. Their existence demonstrates that
attention, when summoned to its ful…remain invisible to the perceiver, because noticing them would present a challenge to how they see themselves.
Hanson and Simler emphasize that this behavior is universal, and having such base desires doesn’t make you a bad person. They ev…
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