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You're at a level of consciousness that is super rare, you will likely get a lot out of this video and many others on this channel when you try to explain to na
by mikelyons 7y ago
You're at a level of consciousness that is super rare, you will likely get a lot out of this video and many others on this channel when you try to explain to naive realists that the universe's purpose is simply to be, and that being is it's own end. You have to be at a post-scientific, post-atheism level of awareness for it to land or it's dismissed as pseudo-devilry without examining the implicit metaphysics of that position.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE1yPCeF1Cc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE1yPCeF1Cc
Cheers, that's a bold opinion to share in an engineer's bar ...
- ncmncm 7y ago"Yes, Minister, that is a very courageous position to take!" (British comedy series, "Yes, Minister", usual staff response to an appointed gov't minister's barking-mad pronouncement.)
- mikelyons 7y agoThere's just implicit and unexamined meta-physics in the "naive realist" paradigm. After all, you are the ultimate authority on what is real to you, but it takes raising your level of awareness to see this, otherwise you place authority somewhere outside yourself without realizing that the thing you're giving authority to is just your own sense perceptions and mental constructions. Which is fine because those are all necessary for your survival, but they're ultimately illusory and it's your human mind giving them all some sort of meaning, or in other words, literally creating the object to be what it is rather than an undifferentiated field of potential/nothingness/meaninglessness.