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Homo sapiens sapiens: The species that is aware and knows that it is aware, from the Latin, sapere, to taste or to know.
Ironic, in that mindfulness is so much bigger than thinking and orthogonal to it. Awareness and thought are obviously not mutually exclusive at all, and if understood correctly, can complement and benefit each other enormously. In this context, “orthogonal” means that mindfulness, or awareness, is an independent domain or dimension, pertaining at the same time as thinking and able to provide a different vantage point from which to hold all thought.
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Kabat-Zinn, J. The Liberative Potential of Mindfulness. Mindfulness 12, 1555–1563 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-021-01608-6
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