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It is interesting to me that the only thing in the universe that we can observe directly it's also thought to be the least understood. We experience physical p

It is interesting to me that the only thing in the universe that we can observe directly it's also thought to be the least understood. We experience physical phenomena by proxy only - through the senses and sensors we built, followed by an interpretation by our brain; while we can observe our consciousness by just observing ourselves from "within". I do not mean to question the paper, just pointing out that I find this fascinating. In fact I strongly believe that consciousness is - in the end - the result of physical processes. What I do question is that we understand what we mean by "physics". Physics is a model of the world, a model that we created based on our understanding how things ought to be, namely that all things are separate and that thus we can explain reality (and hence consciousness) by analyzing (i.e. dividing) the model more and more. Who says that that is a correct representation of the world?

foxhop 5y ago
All things are separate until you dive as deep as we are now into physics, dividing things until you reach a universal field of 1. Then the model breaks and now we are trying to figure out what to do about that. Good news is we were prepared for the model to break. Consciousness is relative to the level of abstraction, as above so below. Observing the universe affects the universe. Consciousness has sensors all the way down to atoms and yet we can have supremely evil people and supremely good and everything in between. Nature and nurture, we have philosophy to help us now that physics and stuck when everything divides down to the same one, we learn that killing your neighbor is like killing yourself. Some people kill their neighbor or themselves, others grow a community garden. If you kill you neighbor you also kill your true self, all beings are of the the same consciousness, the goal is to individuate, to view the universe in new and novel ways, to teach others of the things you manage to bring back on your journey so that it manifests and propagates in this universe! We are not meant to observe we are meant to create! That said our creations must follow the trinity of love, freedom, and truth otherwise the creations quickly devolve into implements of oppression to control the literal minds of the masses.

foxhop 5y ago

All things are separate until you dive as deep as we are now into physics, dividing things until you reach a universal field of 1. Then the model breaks and now we are trying to figure out what to do about that. Good news is we were prepared for the model to break. Consciousness is relative to the level of abstraction, as above so below. Observing the universe affects the universe. Consciousness has sensors all the way down to atoms and yet we can have supremely evil people and supremely good and everything in between. Nature and nurture, we have philosophy to help us now that physics and stuck when everything divides down to the same one, we learn that killing your neighbor is like killing yourself. Some people kill their neighbor or themselves, others grow a community garden. If you kill you neighbor you also kill your true self, all beings are of the the same consciousness, the goal is to individuate, to view the universe in new and novel ways, to teach others of the things you manage to bring back on your journey so that it manifests and propagates in this universe! We are not meant to observe we are meant to create! That said our creations must follow the trinity of love, freedom, and truth otherwise the creations quickly devolve into implements of oppression to control the literal minds of the masses.