[MD] subject / object logic

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
As pointed out several times, the "mystic viewpoint" of self is not 
mentioned in Lila.

[Arlo]
"The language we've inherited confuses this. We say "my" body and 
"your" body and "his" body and "her" body, but it isn't that way. 
That's like a FORTRAN program saying, "this is my computer." "1 his 
body on the left," and "This body on the right." That's the way to 
say it. This Cartesian "Me," this autonomous little homunculus who 
sits behind our eyeballs looking out through them in order to pass 
judgment on the affairs of the world, is just completely ridiculous. 
This self-appointed little editor of reality is just an impossible 
fiction that collapses the moment one examines it. This Cartesian 
"Me" is a software reality, not a hardware reality. This body on the 
left and this body on the right are running variations of the same 
program, the same "Me," which doesn't belong to either of them. The 
"Me's" are simply a program format." (LILA)

"The value is between the stove and the oaths.  Between the subject 
and the object lies the value. This value is more immediate, more 
directly sensed than any "self" or any "object" to which it might be 
later assigned. Whether the stove is the cause of the low quality or 
whether possibly something else is the cause is not yet absolutely 
certain. But that the quality is low is absolutely certain. It is the 
primary empirical reality from which such things as stoves and heat 
and oaths and self are later intellectually constructed." (LILA)

"Everyone seemed to be guided by an "objective," "scientific" view of 
life that told each person that his essential self is his evolved 
material body. Ideas and societies are a component of brains, not the 
other way around." (LILA)