Interesting. One of the terms that is used in Buddhism is “ego-identification”—this is the belief that all of my perceptions come through a specific physical body, and therefore I am this body. I’m probably oversimplifying, but my understanding is that this belief should be understood to be erroneous, and actually seeing through and letting go of this belief is a major milestone. It occurs to me now that ego-identification is a kind of perceptual chunking, perhaps the most fundamental one.
Interesting. One of the terms that is used in Buddhism is “ego-identification”—this is the belief that all of my perceptions come through a specific physical body, and therefore I am this body. I’m probably oversimplifying, but my understanding is that this belief should be understood to be erroneous, and actually seeing through and letting go of this belief is a major milestone. It occurs to me now that ego-identification is a kind of perceptual chunking, perhaps the most fundamental one.