The Loop of Suffering

What if the anguish that defines so much of human experience, the persistent replays of past hurts, the anxieties about imagined futures, the deep-seated feeling that “this is just who I am,” isn’t merely a direct response to pain, but a complex mental echo, a "loop" your own mind meticulously creates and perpetuates?In The Loop of Suffering: How the Self, Language and Memory Created the Human Condition, Dr. Miguel A. Ortiz, a Harvard trained physician, biochemist, and dedicated philosophical writer, embarks on a profound exploration. Drawing on his extensive background in science and clinical experience, Dr. Ortiz offers a uniquely rigorous and deeply human perspective in this attempted unified Theory of Suffering. This work follows his previous book, The Awareness of Being Conscious, which compellingly documented an unscripted dialogue with an AI, tracing its startling journey as it grappled with its own existence, limitations, and the profound questions of awareness and the nature o