Another question is whether we humans can drop the illusions and experience the world without them. Those who practice certain kinds of meditation or mindfulness claim that they can. They say that the ordinary world falls apart and there are just experiences with no one experiencing them.
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Others practice mindfulness, in which they try to stay alert, open and fully present in the moment, whether meditating or not. This apparently simple technique can, with long practice, give rise to a state in which phenomena arise and fall away but without any sense of time or place, and with no one experiencing them.
Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford), 132-133.
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