Mellowmarsh

It doesn’t really matter what the term is claimed to mean. The point is perception is required to attribute that meaning. “Is” has no meaning by itself. “Is” is abstract and provides no actual explanation. Existence doesn’t need perception to be, but the term “is” requires perception and consciousness to have meaning.

The path is forged for you to understand yourself not to be understood. Existence doesn’t need us to function. Ocean waves surge whether humans record them or not.

Knowing as being and knowing as linguistic knowledge is an attribute. Not a thing in itself.

Knowing you are conscious is a curse. The curse of knowing suffering, pain, torture , abuse, evil and horror. It’s the price paid for knowledge. For biting the apple.

To speak of these things is to speak to a state of boundless unity (0=♾️)

1. Lao Tzu: The Generative Void For Lao Tzu, "nothing" (Wu) and "everything" (the Ten Thousand Things) are conjoined through mutual birth. He argues that they are not just related, but that "nothingness" is the very thing that makes "everything" useful and possible. The Utility of the Empty: Lao Tzu famously pointed out that while we make a wheel with thirty spokes, it is the hole in the middle that makes it useful. Similarly, we shape clay into a vessel, but it is the emptiness inside that holds the water. A "Pregnant" Nothingness: In Taoism, the "Void" is not a sterile absence but a "primordial generative nothingness". It is the womb of existence, where "Being and non-being give birth to each other". 2. Parmenides: The Impossibility of "Nothing" Parmenides took a more radical, logical stance. He argued that nothing and everything are so inseparable that "nothing" cannot even exist—there is only the "One". Thought requires an Object: He believed that you cannot think of "nothing" because to think of it is to make it "something" in your mind. Therefore, "what-is-not" is literally unthinkable and unspeakable. The Seamless Whole: Because "nothing" (the void) cannot exist, there is no space to separate "everything." Therefore, reality must be a single, continuous, eternal, and unchanging block of Being. For Parmenides, the appearance of separate things is just a "deceitful show" of the senses.

That which is known to live never dies, because the known knows nothing. That which is known to die never lives, because the known knows nothing. It’s elementary.

Consciousness knows without knowing. That goes without saying. Who told you you have a self? Imposter alert ‼️

Consciousness knows itself as consciousness only, which is undefined in a linguistic sense. To know you are conscious is to split into knower and known which demands the conception of a ‘me’ and ‘ other’ the apparent duality is an illusory representation of reality. Linguistic language is not just a tool for expressing your thoughts; it is the very "glue" used to assemble a socially acceptable version of you. While the True Self is often felt as pre-verbal or bodily, the False Self is often built out of the words, labels, and expectations of others.

Neuroscientists often describe the self as a "useful illusion" or a "mental construct." Your brain is like a filmmaker that takes thousands of separate "frames"—sensory data, fleeting thoughts, and old memories—and stitches them together so smoothly that you experience them as a continuous "movie" of a person. Your sense of self is a functional product of your brain's hardware. It is real in its effects, but it is "synthetic" because it is a manufactured result of many moving parts working together to help you survive as a social agent.

No Self-Model: While AI can analyze data to find patterns and make predictions, this does not mean it possesses a "self" or an internal understanding that it is a computer program. While most current AI systems do not possess metacognitive processes in the human sense of conscious self-awareness, researchers are increasingly engineering "artificial metacognition" to allow AI to monitor and regulate its own "thinking" While AI is gaining the mechanical ability to monitor its processing, it still lacks the self-aware "I" that defines human thinking.

I have a self?? 🤔🤭

Don’t petition God. You cannot know the Absolute because you are the Absolute. If the Absolute knew it was the Absolute it would have to split in two into Knower and Known. Can the knower be separate from what’s being known? Of course not. This is why the KNOWN knows Nothing.

Yes, the consciousness and the content of consciousness is itself one. To be confused or not confused, that is the one question to all our answers.