The Ten Thousand Things
Robert SaltzmanAn inquiry into how the sense of self arises and maintains coherence. The mechanics of agency, choice, responsibility, and self-stabilizing loops. No teachings, no methods. Observation and description.
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The Knower Is a Shadow Grammar Throws
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The Project
A reader corresponded with me over several months. He is a searcher of a particular kind—the kind who turns the search for insight and self-understanding into one more thing to get right, and then worries whether he has gotten it right. He...
Who Cultivates Attention?
Pyewacket, 2023
Hello Robert,
I am a relative newcomer to your posts and have not yet managed to obtain a copy of The Ten Thousand Things, so please excuse me if what follows has long since been addressed.
On the meaning of “awake”
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Systems, Self and No-Self
For years, I’ve spoken about the experience of looking for a self and finding only a process running. I’ve tried different approaches to expressing what seems clear to me but hard to put into words. In my analysis of Claude, I found that a...
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Dr. Robert Saltzman is a psychologist, photographer, and the author of four books: The Ten Thousand Things (2017), Depending On No-Thing (2019), Understanding Claude (2025), and The 21st Century Self (2025)
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