Rupert Spria's sweet blind spot

[Simon Adams]

Is he talking about the well known and relatively common phenomenon of lucid dreaming, with metacognitive function turned on during REM, or basic sentient awareness also during deepest sleep? Or something else?

He talks about a kind of awareness that remains even in deep sleep. He says that the reason we don’t think we are aware in sleep (apart from dreams) is that the part of us we think of as awareness is the part that is thought rather than the source of thought.

An example of what he said on this is here - https://ramana-talk-mailer.appspot.com/ ... &index=609

Amputation of introspection is indeed anti-empirical and anti-scientific, and especially anti-philosophical, as it goes directly against the Socratic motto 'know thyself'.

Yes I’m not sure science *needs* introspection, but it seems to often be a part of the big discoveries. But in philosophy I’m with those like Henri Bergson who say it’s almost pointless to rely on logic and rational abstraction alone.