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Marvin Minsky <minsky@media.mit.edu> wrote:

>I don't believe that you can be conscious of being conscious without
>being conscious of being conscious of something.

	My experience during meditation (sometimes) is of consciousness 
without an object.  Ordinary consciousness is like a leash, where you are 
attached to a dog that goes sniffing everywhere.  During meditation, the 
hook is detached from the dog and that end of the leash just hangs...

	My experience seems to accord with that of other, more expert, 
meditators who write of their experiences.
