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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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...
The Price Few Will Pay
Una Transacción Financiera, 2023
“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”
— Juvenal
What is the price to which Juvenal referred? Many of us live a strained existence, filled with...
Identity and the Unborn
6th Avenue, 2017
The Radiant Field:
Humans habitually form identity structures to protect themselves and help them attain what they think they want. And they do that in whatever context they find themselves.
Most people never recognize...
Muddy Water Clears by Itself
That Rare Rainy Day In Todos Santos, 2013
Philip: Hi Robert, you mentioned ‘Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind’ in a comment... what do you appreciate about it?
Robert: Well, it was an early influence, so there’s that. I have not looked at that...
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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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