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Really? Or does it just happen? When you say "I".. What exactly are you talking about? Can you point to it?

What makes you think you have control in the first place?

It depends on how you Define "you". You are a little construction in consciousness if you speak about the ego. But you are also consciousness itself. The whole of it. The construction can indeed change or die. But consciousness itself can never die. It just change forms. From self to other. Your body and other's bodies are equally objects appearing inside you as consciousness. No one is experiencing anything. Consciousness is not a property of you or others. You and others are equally objects illuminated by consciousness. Same. Creatures don't have consciousness. Consciousness have creatures. You flip into other each moment. You should know the answer.

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we cannot see the past except for within our minds. There is no physical past or future that we can touch and/or interact with so it doesn't exist. In the present, be it silently or consciously consider all 3. It is a way we make a picture of the world. They exist as reflections of the present as the past is what composed the present. The present can only be in existence with this contradictory thing that is the past. I call it contradictory, as it is not physically there, yet it is the only way the present can exist. So this thing that used to exist is the past. This means that the past is the present, only that the present is the manifestation of the combination of 'pasts' which each in and of themselves are in the billions upon trillions upon quadrillions of frames in each millisecond. We could go into how anything can move in a moment at all though I would rather not. The future is the present since the future is composed of the present. We live in what forms it and also, the future is undetermined by the human mind. It is determined to happen by a preset number of causes, but we do not know exactly what will happen. Nonetheless, despite it being unknown, the future doesn't exist. It will exist, although it doesn't, as it has yet to occur. This means that it can only exist in the present as a figment of our imagination.

@Gianna thank you ?

I just truly discovered this notion of "wholeness", "unity" or "oneness" from non-duality. This idea is very frightening for me.. because it collapses my experience of reality. Awareness is all that there is.. every other thing is a mind-created concept So, Non-Duality is awareness itself. There is no separation of ego/thought or object/subject. Precisely because experience is all it Is.. and experience IS consciousness. There is no experiential state if there is no awareness, therefore "being" is all there truly is. This is without having this "I" that is assumed to be doing the experiencing. For some this mystical ego-transcendence is beautiful, because of the divine nature of it(How this pure state of awareness feels). And also because it is the ultimate truth. It is the true nature of nature. Duality is the greatest enemy to non-duality (Obviously). But get this, in order to reach non-duality you MUST purge the duality of the mind. So, having a firmly dualistic mind will not comprehend this in any way. Because non-duality is experienced, it is not known by a rational explanation. For the explanation of it is dualistic in nature, because language is dualistic and always implies separation. People engage in meditation to reach this perceptual change of awareness. My biggest fear is knowing that everything I have experienced up until now has been an illusion. A product of the mind's intrinsic tendency to dualism. Everything seems false, nothing is real. Truth is just one. Up until now my philosophical "truths"(Or any thought of that matter) have been dualistic. So, I reach some sort of existential crisis or nihilistic crisis in nature. Not only that, but all of my dreams, hopes, my personal realizations are far from truth. Any meaning becomes meaningless. It is not worth living for something at it is just a concept, a construct of the mind that separates me and true reality. In a crude way, it is all fake. I can't even think without separation so it troubles me more. I think the most terrifying thing is looking out into space and realising that that for the most part.. is reality - this yawning near-void filled with things that would kill you. Here we are.. little fragile Flatlanders hugging the increasingly disordered surface of one planet.. with the yawning hungry cosmos poised to take us all back.

From Merriam-Webster Dictionary: "Materialism: a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter". “Everything is matter.” Who says so? I, the subject. And if there were no subject who says so, there would be no one for whom matter matters, and therefore there would be no sense in saying that there is anything at all, because being and its meaning are not separable from each other. Nothingness of meaning means nothingness of being. So there is at least (1) the subject's (2) consciousness of (3) matter, instead of matter only. All three components are necessary to make a satisfactory ontological picture of reality. That I, as the subject, could be somehow reducible to my objects, or that my consciousness of matter could be somehow reducible to what I am conscious of, is absurd. Matter matters to me, but nothing matters to matter. So by doing a simple phenomenological analysis of the being of matter we find that materialism is a self-contradictory position.

@Mason Riggle

I think you should start to accept that life can be fucked up sometimes. It's full tragedy not only beautiful things.

Your response meets my empirical requirements. If that is not good enough for you, it is not relevant. We live in a mental world and all evidence of matter derives from clearly mental phenomenon (qualia :consciousness). Please demonstrate matter. What do you mean by it? And please show evidence of it without the presence of consciousness. It's not that consciousness =matter There is simply only consciousness and nothing else. If that's your point then we agree.

refutation of consciousness being reducible to matter in it's simplest form - there is no sign of consciousness outside of oneself. It is impossible to discover consciousness in matter, hence any searching for it would only be an act of cutting meat. So digging out someone else's brain with a spoon or scalpel is not altering consciousness. Consciousness, self awareness, or better addressed simply as sensation, excludes the possibility of others existing. For another to exist, there would have to be the sensation of others' sensation. I wouldn't even call this subjectivity, because sensation is all-inclusive of reality. Meaning all that is real is sensed, so what external influence is there to make sensation only subjective? Any idea of objectivity supposes there are other sensations outside of the sensations known, which means a reality apart from reality. An impossibility. Obviously, if senses are only our own, reality is only our own, consciousness cannot be found in matter. Obvious retort - what if I stab myself in the head or take a pill? Isn't consciousness affected through matter then? No, there is no experience of matter in these acts, only sensation. Through sensation there can only be sensation. The limit of a thing is another of the same type. The limit of a feeling is another feeling. Any attempts at altering consciousness, is a change in sensations. From the swallowing of a pill to the dizziness in your head, you only feel. The idea that consciousness can be reducible to matter is absurd because consciousness is not found in other people. Of course this is only one of the reasons, I listed others in two earlier posts.

@Mason Riggle I think all phenomena of consciousness have material correlates, but this does not mean that consciousness can be reduced to material processes. It is more like an instrumental relationship. And the subject itself has no material correlates. We can say that the subject and its consciousness of the world is ontologically fundamental, but the material world is the functional basis of the subject's concrete existence. The concepts of consciousness cannot be reduced to the concepts of physics. Only correlations between them can be found.

Yup. On the other hand.. Some argue that All empirical evidence of consciousness is based upon material. Specifically it is neural material. Without it there is nothing of the kind. So I think even if we might want to extend our understanding of matter to include the unique organisations of matter to include such things as information, data, and consciousness. There would still be two substances. Matter AND consciousness.

So, basically, solipsism is it?

@roopepa you're misunderstanding. A statement can be true or false. That's called relative truth. It's conceptual. Absolute Truth is everything. Even the false statement. Just not its meaning. But it's being. Watch Leo's last video. He explains all this all so well.

@allislove so should I stop being a separate person to overcome boredom? that's an illusion but I must identify as separate.

No I'm talking about the absolute truth.

@gettoefl truth is absolute infinity. It's omnipresent. It's all encompassing. You can't escape Truth.

Because it's hidden in plain sight. It's everything. Yet most people are not conscious of that. Not sure what you mean.

Shouldn't that be reversed? Less expectations =more boredom. When you (I) are bored you have no expectations. only when your expectations fail do you feel kinda shitty.

What's the connection?

False. Truth is the change and the changeless. Truth is everything.

@Vynce interesting. I don't like the fact that existence is inherently hollow and boring. But that's just my ego trying to survive. Some say boredom arises because our true nature is infinite and it's not satisfied with this finite world.