I'm not claiming to know much about your ideas. I admit to not understanding a lot of it, and I also admit to not caring enough to improve my understanding.
Part of the reason I don't care enough is because I've learned to distrust people who say they know the truth of reality. Especially when the account they give is full of holes. The funny thing is that philosophically, I'm not that far away from your position. I'm an idealist myself. But I acknowledge that *I don't know* whether the world I construct and experience is all there is. I sincerely doubt it, because the world I construct is so constrained, unlike in my dream states, and so ordered and lawful, and in ways I don't always understand and certainly wouldn't choose. I have always appreciated the Hindu creation myth, which holds (paraphrasing) that God got bored being just a unified void and so shattered itself into uncountable pieces, and dreamed every dream possible, delighting in the drama of consciousness from the perspective of one who does not know they are God, and delighting even more in those who come to realize they are. I can fairly easily relate that creation myth to Bruno's UDA. God is the natural numbers + addition + multiplication, which gives rise to the universal dovetailer, which outputs every dream possible. In the context of a given dream, the physical world emerges as a sort of stable selection from the infinity of possible continuations for any given dream state. There are problems with this account, which have been discussed a lot on this list... but the problems are subtle, once you wrap your head around the idea. I can only relate that creation myth to your ideas if, when you say consciousness is the only thing that exists (ok), then you must be referring to God's consciousness. But then I can't make sense of the physical world. I don't know how that emerges, what gives rise to what seems to be an ordered, constrained world, on which we all can agree about the basic facts, like gravity, and the sun, and the need for air and water. And you don't know, either. It's just an incomplete theory. You hide behind statements like "buses don't exist", like a pickpocket distracting his mark's attention, to disguise the fact that you don't have an answer for why there are any constraints, or you can't stop a bus from hitting you by commanding it to stop with your mind a la The Matrix. And it's all because you're so damn sure about what exists. Terren On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 12:59 PM 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > You seem to know a lot about my ideas, without even having read them. So I > ask you once again: what are my ideas ? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2d2e18e0-ea39-4b6b-a7ac-887454627ca5%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2d2e18e0-ea39-4b6b-a7ac-887454627ca5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAMy3ZA_b6G1ObbYeEFgBZeXgySvCoPuFkG5dWqWgTHvjfX%3DnGQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
