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According to Buddhism, there is no boundary. Between a human and the "external" world. This point of view is very interesting.
by lkuty 4y ago
According to Buddhism, there is no boundary. Between a human and the "external" world. This point of view is very interesting.
- LesZedCB 4y agoJames Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis is more or less the scientific equivalent of this. think systems theory of life, planet, rock, gas, organism, etc.
- steve_adams_86 4y agoI’ve begun to think we’re only distinct from other things in the context of consciousness, which is entirely subjective and manufactured by our neurons. The further you go down that rabbit hole, the more you might realize reality as we understand it is totally illusory and not even fully shared across humanity, let alone species. It’s a trip. We are as much a part of the systems we live in as anything. In a sense we aren’t distinct from the external world because there is no internal world to differentiate from. It’s imaginary - it exists only in our neurons, an abstraction to help us navigate reality, just impulses firing along various pathways in a brain.