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is there awareness without belief? what is the nature of belief? what is the nature of consciousness? is consciousness the same as thought? is there conscio
by perfmode 6y ago
is there awareness without belief?
what is the nature of belief?
what is the nature of consciousness?
is consciousness the same as thought?
is there consciousness without thought?
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoThe more I meditate (13 years now), and the more 1/5/6 seem to be yes/no/yes. It is congruent with many meditators exerience and teaching, which of course could be influencing this conclusion, not to mention it's not measurable nor objective. I'm not sure 2/3 are something we can ever answer. And that spawns many interesting questions about the physical characteristics of cousciousness. Does it start and end? It is present spacially? If you don't need thought, do you need the brain to be conscious? Do you need neurons? Can something without it be conscious? Is there only one form of consciouness? Is it persistent? Is it a whole? It is homogenous? Is it something in itself, or an emerging phenomena? Does it have a support, or is it a support in itself? Unfortunatly, people tend to immediatly reach for spiritual, religious or mystical answers to those.
- perfmode 6y agowhat do you make of the confessions of sages? respectfully: perhaps, do you prefer to stick to what can be understood from direct experience? i personally can’t help but wonder how it is that many sages in different times and places seem to arrive at corroboratory confessions of what they’ve experienced as the ground of being.