The Hierarchies of Dissociation

Date: 4 February 2025

Duration: 2h 29m

Title: Why a cat may get angry without holding a grudge

Duration: 3:46

https://vimeo.com/1226769653/5d5b7e92f4

0:00:00 Welcome and community connections

0:05:15 Building a community around better questions

0:15:58 Members introduce their paths to idealism

0:30:37 Where can physics students study consciousness?

0:40:12 Dissociation is closer to everyday life than you think

0:45:16 Self and ego: what is the difference?

0:55:03 Could two minds merge into one perspective?

1:00:13 How language helps create a separate self

1:05:28 When inner dialogue becomes self-torture

1:10:20 Can we embrace life with language’s double edge?

1:15:06 Why a cat may get angry without holding a grudge

1:20:03 Is mind at large also an alter?

1:25:13 Could some layers of mind be less dissociated?

1:30:32 Breathing across a dissociative boundary

1:35:15 What makes life’s dissociation distinctive?

1:40:14 Could the universe have an ego?

1:45:27 Where philosophy must recognise clinical limits

1:50:21 When does natural variation become dysfunction?

1:55:11 What does your body represent?

2:01:55 When a limb no longer feels like your own

2:05:03 Being dissociated from experience—or its appearance?

2:15:00 Turning shared questions into future sessions