I am sincerely disgusted by this kind of deliberate misinformation, designed purely to feed the willful ignorance of others. I feel so sorry for all the people who, because of trash like this, are going to live the rest of their lives convinced that there is no ontologically stable reality, that they can magically wish their problems away, and that they should on some level blame themselves for attracting their misfortunes.
@EruditeChap Maybe life isn't about misfortunes or problems but rather events which we observe? Maybe instead of looking at the superficial implications of these concepts that to you seem to imply magical power, you could see it as a way to expand your awareness of how little the mundane things matter. If we create our own reality already, why do we need to change it? Shouldn't it already be exactly what we need? If so I don't think we can change it, even if we want to.
@EruditeChap When you start seeing life and reality less about good, evil, and stop thinking of reality as being what it appears to be, but rather what it is... It's a lot easier to accept it. While I understand your implied point that this video shows a lot of pseudoscience and several things in it are... not very credible... I think there is something to this idea. We don't make an apple, but we make the apple an apple. We don't make red light, but we make a light red.
@EruditeChap Without the observer, without YOU to observe and interpret and experience, all of reality is just a soup of quantum probabilities that interact with one another. Reality exists whether we observe it or not, but it's meaning only exists when we observe it. In a manner of speaking then, we DO create our reality, and can change it.
@EruditeChap Like a Tree falling in a forest with no one to witness it... does it make a sound? No because sound requires an observer. Without an observer it is just a wave of kinetic energy propagating through a liquid/gas/solid matrix of matter... Indeed, matter is only matter when it is observed as it appears to be made of empty space which only has mass because of the Higgs field. If such a field is proven of course... But ask yourself what is the OBSERVER? Have fun :)
@D3mang3l While I don't want to diminish your musings on the nature of subjective experience, it seems you're suggesting that the subjective mind's role in acts of perception and cognition somehow privilege the mind as being 'the important part' of these phenomena. In contrast, I would emphasize that all acts of observation, and indeed all acts of 'knowing', are relations between a subject and an object. Both are necessary, but not sufficient, elements, and neither element is 'more' important.
@EruditeChap Not sure I would say that the human is more important, because without the human, or something capable of such distinction importance is irrelevant, reality doesn't classify itself as bad, or good, important or unimportant. Humans do. Reality exists, but it is experience that gives it meaning. Without a human or similar observer even physical laws have no meaning even though they may continue to operate and interact. And your right, I believe both need one another.
@EruditeChap To illustrate it another way - from the "Zen legends" of Huineng,
Two monks were arguing about the temple flag waving in the wind. One said, "The flag moves." The other said, "The wind moves." They argued back and forth but could not agree.
The Sixth Ancestor said, "Gentlemen! It is not the wind that moves; it is not the flag that moves; it is your mind that moves." The two monks were struck with awe.
Tho this can be applied more to perception of time than substance
I am sincerely disgusted by this kind of deliberate misinformation, designed purely to feed the willful ignorance of others. I feel so sorry for all the people who, because of trash like this, are going to live the rest of their lives convinced that there is no ontologically stable reality, that they can magically wish their problems away, and that they should on some level blame themselves for attracting their misfortunes.
EruditeChap 4 months ago
@EruditeChap Maybe life isn't about misfortunes or problems but rather events which we observe? Maybe instead of looking at the superficial implications of these concepts that to you seem to imply magical power, you could see it as a way to expand your awareness of how little the mundane things matter. If we create our own reality already, why do we need to change it? Shouldn't it already be exactly what we need? If so I don't think we can change it, even if we want to.
D3mang3l 1 month ago
@EruditeChap When you start seeing life and reality less about good, evil, and stop thinking of reality as being what it appears to be, but rather what it is... It's a lot easier to accept it. While I understand your implied point that this video shows a lot of pseudoscience and several things in it are... not very credible... I think there is something to this idea. We don't make an apple, but we make the apple an apple. We don't make red light, but we make a light red.
D3mang3l 1 month ago
@EruditeChap Without the observer, without YOU to observe and interpret and experience, all of reality is just a soup of quantum probabilities that interact with one another. Reality exists whether we observe it or not, but it's meaning only exists when we observe it. In a manner of speaking then, we DO create our reality, and can change it.
D3mang3l 1 month ago
@EruditeChap Like a Tree falling in a forest with no one to witness it... does it make a sound? No because sound requires an observer. Without an observer it is just a wave of kinetic energy propagating through a liquid/gas/solid matrix of matter... Indeed, matter is only matter when it is observed as it appears to be made of empty space which only has mass because of the Higgs field. If such a field is proven of course... But ask yourself what is the OBSERVER? Have fun :)
D3mang3l 1 month ago
@D3mang3l While I don't want to diminish your musings on the nature of subjective experience, it seems you're suggesting that the subjective mind's role in acts of perception and cognition somehow privilege the mind as being 'the important part' of these phenomena. In contrast, I would emphasize that all acts of observation, and indeed all acts of 'knowing', are relations between a subject and an object. Both are necessary, but not sufficient, elements, and neither element is 'more' important.
EruditeChap 1 month ago
@EruditeChap Not sure I would say that the human is more important, because without the human, or something capable of such distinction importance is irrelevant, reality doesn't classify itself as bad, or good, important or unimportant. Humans do. Reality exists, but it is experience that gives it meaning. Without a human or similar observer even physical laws have no meaning even though they may continue to operate and interact. And your right, I believe both need one another.
D3mang3l 1 month ago
@EruditeChap To illustrate it another way - from the "Zen legends" of Huineng,
Two monks were arguing about the temple flag waving in the wind. One said, "The flag moves." The other said, "The wind moves." They argued back and forth but could not agree.
The Sixth Ancestor said, "Gentlemen! It is not the wind that moves; it is not the flag that moves; it is your mind that moves." The two monks were struck with awe.
Tho this can be applied more to perception of time than substance
D3mang3l 1 month ago
I believe ur right! thanks yo for sharing this with us.
HibiscusKitty427 1 year ago
Yes you are right!
kellyminooee 2 years ago
Is the video out of sync with the sound, or is it just my computer?
ecstaticjoy 3 years ago
@ecstaticjoy No; it is just you reality. LOL
hernandez152 1 year ago