Categories are mental representations thoughts only, they can be…

Categories are mental representations thoughts only, they can be very useful in other words, categories exists as things only in the mind and only in the act of perceiving them. Issues arrive when we believe these things are real. For example, imagine if you showed up at the university where I teach and asked me to show you the university. After being shown one building after another, you begin to get frustrated and say yes, I’ve seen this building in that building. Where is the university? I would have to point to the left of my head and say it’s only up here, because it exists as a category and so it may change, depending on whom you talk to. When no one is thinking about it, it doesn’t exist at all.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · No Self No Problem by Chris Niebauer

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