A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.
Not to find one__ way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance__othing more," says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin. __ut to lose oneself in a city__s one loses oneself in a forest__hat calls for quite a different schooling._ To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin__ terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography.
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Not to find one__ way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance__othing more," says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin. __ut to lose oneself in a city__s one loses oneself in a forest__hat calls for quite a different schooling._ To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin__ terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography.
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