Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

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The world offers us sensory and emotional gifts every day,

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Impressions, the input we get from the "external" world, can be processed in several ways:

  1. They are processed unconsciously by the survival brain, where the only things that are noticed are those that contribute to or detract from survival. All of this runs on automatic. We will notice an approving smile and an aggressive gesture, but not notice the skys…

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