davidad uses Buddhist anatman vs sunyata to frame his underdetermined-world view
davidad · x · 2026-10-04
Continuing a discussion on consciousness, davidad contrasts early Buddhist anātman (no actual souls) with post-Nagarjuna śūnyatā (no determinate anything if the insight is followed to its conclusion), framing it as the philosophical distance underlying his claim that all valid causal orders exist.
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