Studying materialist science is studying consciousness

[RMQualtrough]

Of course... Matter is a representation of the activity of pure consciousness/Brahman.

Represented to us living beings in perceptions like sight and sound. E.g. the grey matter in our heads is a symbol representing the act of consciousness person-ing.

When altering the brain, you are altering a symbol representing an element of consciousness. This is why drugs and brain damage etc alter the human experience, as the matter being altered literally is consciousness and not separate from that. Like how desktop icons on a computer are symbols representing computer code. Altering the symbols is altering code. The symbol is representative.

For that reason, the material world provides a fantastic and valid insight into the workings of consciousness, and many clues may be taken from it... The material is NOT separate from consciousness. They are the same thing. One does not act and then the other follows. They are a single unit...

[BipolarGrowth]

Of course it is ?

[RMQualtrough]

8 hours ago, Benton said:

We are getting more into hyperbolic geometry and the sort. I’m very excited. But I think looking into material reality and seeing your own mind changes a lot about what is seen in science. And it’s biases. I need to work on my own bias

By hyperbolic geometry do you mean psychedelic visuals?

The mistake made very often in science (not universally - see Schrödinger for example), is down to a complete misunderstanding of what consciousness IS. If you ask a scientist to define it, they will usually give demonstrably wrong answers.

One reason being that they see the contents of consciousness without recognizing the emptiness the appearances are within. Hence conclusions such as believing dementia altering behavior proves the brain "produces" consciousness... The true definition of consciousness is not useful in science because they only care about saving lives relatively, etc.

Overall the model of materialism and idealism is functionally identical. What is different is the fundamental substance OF what these things are. Which you can find to be inherently empty themselves. "Consciousness" isolated by itself is nothing, no substance. Its contents are not made out of tangible physical things either. There is no substance at all.

Consider literal total unity...

If everything is one, matter literally IS the activity of consciousness, and its appearance as somethinge with tangible form is made of perception only. If you think mind is real and matter is fake, that's just materialism reversed, and not actual unity.

So, any sort of scientific experiment or discovery you make, is a discovery about "consciousness", or better put Brahman (I prefer that term to God, as God is too personified culturally). Literally everything in existence is Brahman. It doesn't matter whether it's a microscopic particle or a planet, its nature is empty, and it is Brahman.