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were all a dream. This leads to "horizonal" conceptions of consciousness, mind, experience, life, the self, etc. Valberg subsequently considers death, and argues that when the meaning of death strikes us in the right way, it presents us with the prospect of nothingness – not there being nothing
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Mark Johnston compares this notion to his related but distinct notion of an "arena of presence and action", which contains the stream of consciousness, and argues for the latter.
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were a dream? In Valberg's view, an undetermined horizon would necessarily be internalised (a.k.a. subconscious) if
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Index

J. J. Valberg
dream hypothesis
solipsism
egocentric presentism
Metaphysical subjectivism
Centered worlds
vertiginous question
Dream, Death, and the Self
ISBN
9780691128597
Surviving Death
ISBN
9781400834600
Categories
Conceptions of self
Epistemological theories
Identity (philosophy)
Metaphysics of mind
Theory of mind
Solipsism

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