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Thought and Environment
Today, we are talking about dualism, specifically the conceptual separation between mind and matter. Paradox is in itself a duality, considered paradoxical because of the single truth that unifies the apparent opposites. How many people pride themselves in being a rational thinker? Logical? At times. I do. Well, more or less logical — at least…
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All Thought is Connective
So all thought is connective… Let’s experiment. Think of something, just a single thing, and compare it to nothing else. Think of it alone, remove the idea from any context, just focus on the single idea. Let me know when you do it. What was your one idea? The Cosmos taken all-in-all. Ah, that’s two,…
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Quantum Cheshire Cat
Everyone familiar with the dual slot experiment? Tested one way, light behaves like particles moving in straight lines having a clear path and impact point. Tested another way, light behaves like waves showing every sign of being widely spread out and physically interacting with other waves, even waves not directly on the same path as…
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Posture of Your Mind
I offer that we have little basis for genuine self awareness. We are barely sentient creatures. Dolphins may in fact be more self aware than we are, perhaps other species as well. We zip between thought and sensation running back and forth in our minds, and if anything should alter that, compromise that, we say…
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Origin of Duality
Back to the dual slit experiment… This happens in your brain. This is why your nervous system shows such symmetry. One single system, multiple dimensions of behaviour. The entire nervous system exists for one purpose, to articulate the process of behaviour we call intelligence. They have even confirmed this behaviour in your brain. The old right…
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Rest from your Struggle
So we need a counter. We need our own power back, no? Yes! The skeleton of the mind, it’s own authentic code, is in attention. We think of our attention as something to be allocated, that we have to distribute or localize, concentrate or diffuse with sleep or drugs. Any effort to do so is an…
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Force of Meaning
For example, “forgiving” always means something you do with yourself, not with someone you think has offended you. You don’t tell your upset stomach to go fornicate with itself do you? Well, not in my “good mind”, no. It serves about the same purpose when you react that way to anything or anyone else. Really,…
Category: Dualism
Your right brain does deal in particulars, item by item recognition, and unembellished experience, both of the world and the self, and the left brain deals in generalities, over arching assumptions and theorizing. Right brain = particle. Left brain = wave. Right brain = matter. Left brain = thought. Your brain is constantly performing the dual slit experiment. That’s its job.
This is the origin of duality, and nether function is the truth, neither experience is the self. They are functional, virtually true, but taken as the absolute truth they lead to mind death, all the while leaving your brain perfectly functional.
“Heart knows neither duality nor the limitations of space and time.” Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Indian Spiritual leader, b.1926)