Some meditators say that before you can get a good sense of non-self you first have to have good self-confidence. I think I would tend to agree with them as it is about how you generally act in the world and what consequences your actions will have. Without this the support for the type B that you’re talking about can be very hard to come by.
Otherwise I do really agree with what you say in this comment.
There is a slight disagreement with the elaboration though, I do not actually think that makes sense. I would rather say that the (A) that you’re talking about is more of a software construct than it is a hardware construct. When you meditate a lot, you realise this and get access to the full OS instead of just the specific software or OS emulator. A is then an evolutionary beneficial algorithm that runs a bit out of control (for example during childhood when we attribute all cause and effect to our “selves”).
Meditation allows us to see that what we have previously attributed to the self was flimsy and dependent on us believing that the hypothesis of the self is true.
Some meditators say that before you can get a good sense of non-self you first have to have good self-confidence. I think I would tend to agree with them as it is about how you generally act in the world and what consequences your actions will have. Without this the support for the type B that you’re talking about can be very hard to come by.
Otherwise I do really agree with what you say in this comment.
There is a slight disagreement with the elaboration though, I do not actually think that makes sense. I would rather say that the (A) that you’re talking about is more of a software construct than it is a hardware construct. When you meditate a lot, you realise this and get access to the full OS instead of just the specific software or OS emulator. A is then an evolutionary beneficial algorithm that runs a bit out of control (for example during childhood when we attribute all cause and effect to our “selves”).
Meditation allows us to see that what we have previously attributed to the self was flimsy and dependent on us believing that the hypothesis of the self is true.