On 12/11/2014 3:47 PM, s3raphita wrote:
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This is a physical world and I am conscious . . . how the illusion of
the outer world is created is still a mystery
Errrr . . . so *is there* a physical world or is it an illusion?
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/"For those well versed in the Vedaanta the world is like a city of
Gaandharvas - an illusion."/ - Gaudapaada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudapada
*Dispelling Illusion - Gaudapada's Alatasanti*
by Douglas A. Fox
State University of New York Press, 1993
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
According to Sam Harris, /"there is no scientific evidence that
consciousness exists in the physical world."/
/
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This is a physical world and I am conscious. That rather puts the
kibbosh on that idea.
I suspect that what we have here is a category error. Consciousness
isn't a thing so you won't ever be able to remove it and dissect it.
Consciousness is a process, and one that can be measured and
predicted, even altered.
So to call this process a noun instead of an verb is your error and
why it gets so confusing. How the illusion of the outer world is
created is still a mystery though, but like all mysteries it is
fathomable.
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