55% POPULN HAD SPONT MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES
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ALL LVNG BEINGS HV TOUL
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CARTESIAN DUALISM - MIND V MATTER
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We face these dualities of pleasure and pain, loss and gain because we have not realized the truth of non-duality, we have not realized that actually there is no pleasure and pain. Pleasure and pain is experienced by the body, the mind, the ego, but we are not that, we are the Divine Soul. The Soul doesn't experience pleasure and pain, the Soul doesn't have loss and gain because the Soul is enlightened, the Soul is a part of SIP, the Supreme Immortal Power, the Soul is not entangled. Everything is a drama, it is just a show and we are just actors who come and go. What is pleasure and pain? It is only for the body, the Soul doesn't enjoy pleasure and pain, the Soul remains in that state of Divine consciousness, of ananda. It is not involved in this earthly, this worldly pleasure-pain, loss-gain. We face this duality because we are not enlightened.
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G STRAWSON - PANPSYCHISM
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P GOFF- PANPSYCHSM
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JULIO TORNONI - IIT
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SPINOZA - GON
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WHITEHEAD, GURU OF RUSSELL
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LIGHT, MATTER AS WAVE LIKE
ALL PARTICLES AS WAVESS
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ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD- MATTER IS NOT STUFF, BUT A PROCESS , HAPPENS IN TIME, HAS POLARITY PAST AND PRESENT
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SPATIAL METAPHOR GONE
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WHITEHEAD - MENTAL POLE IS FUTURE POLE
BODY POLE IS PAST POLE
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REDUCTIONISM V HOLISM
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ATOM MOLECULE ORGANISM TISSUE ECOSYSTEM ETC AS PROCESSES
CANT BE ALL REDUCED TO SMALLEST
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HELIOS- SOL- SURYA
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ENGLISH IS HYBRID OF FRENCH X GERMAN
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What is consciousness? For a conscious creature, there is something that it is like to be that creature. There is something it is like to be me, something it is like to be you, and probably something it is like to be a sheep, or a dolphin. For each of these creatures, subjective experiences are happening. It feels like something to be me. But there is almost certainly nothing it is like to be a bacterium, a blade of grass, or a toy robot. For these things, there is (presumably) never any subjective experience going on: no inner universe, no awareness, no consciousness.
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SINCERE SKEPTICS OF PHYSICALISM
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Delusion and grandeur of one's ego is best conquered by the development of discernment and self witness.
Vanity is overcome by simple, minimal living.
Arrogance is overcome by politeness.
~ From the book Thought Power by Swami Sivananda
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A philosophical zombie is a creature that is indistinguishable from a conscious creature, but which lacks consciousness.
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The deeper problem is that correlations are not explanations. We all know that mere correlation does not establish causation, but it is also true that correlation falls short of explanation. Even with increasingly ingenious experimental designs and ever more powerful brain imaging technologies, correlation by itself can never amount to explanation.
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If consciousness turns out to be something like temperature – which is to say, if there is a single physical process that underlies and is identical to ‘being conscious’ – the payoff would be spectacular. Not only would we be able to determine ‘how conscious’ someone is, we would be able to talk sensibly about specific ‘levels’ and ‘degrees’ of consciousness, and about varieties of consciousness far removed from our parochial human example.
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