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 Reader Who Stopped Seeking
A correspondence, over the course of about a year, with a reader named Kate. She wrote to me first as a seeker, raised a Christian fundamentalist and long since departed into the spiritual marketplace, still hunting the thing that would fix...
The Late Arrival
México, 2020
In my last essay, The Complexity of Memory, I showed that a memory retrieved intact and a wholly fabricated one can feel the same, with the same sense of pastness, the same sense of ownership, inspiring the same level of confi...
The Complexity of Memory
Memory, 2018
In ordinary usage, memory is treated as a faculty that stores the past and returns it on demand. But seeing the complexity of remembering defeats that picture. Memory operates in at least three modes, and they do not share a c...
A Conversation. Pierce Salguero and Robert Saltzman.
Not the best quality recording, but a conversation worth hearing, I think.
A Conversation: Robert Saltzman and Pierce Salguero
On ontology, the self, Kant, and living without a metaphysical foundation.
Robert: When you proposed this...
No View from Outside
A Reader, 2021
Tim Miller has written a review of the Depending On No-Thing audiobook. In it, he says:
“It’s curious. Robert writes very clearly and lays out his ideas so simply, yet readers who pose questions struggle so hard to put i...
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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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