Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights
Miscellaneous bits of wisdom and resources on personal development, life purpose, philosophy, epistemology, nonduality, psychedelics, etc. Published randomly throughout the week.
- penetrating mental vision or discernment.
- the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
- a deep understanding of a person or thing.
Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.
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The physical world only exists as a virtual space inside consciousness. It is a construct of Consciousness. Similar to how the world inside a video game does not exist outside the video game. However, Consciousness is more radical than a video game because the video game computer exists inside a physical world, but this is not the case with Consciousness. Consciousness does not exist inside of anything. Consciousness is the top-most or bottom-most container. The physical world is content internal to Consciousness. All things are content internal to Consciousness, which is why Consciousness itself does not exist inside of anything. Humans keep making the profound mistake of trying to place Consciousness inside of something else, like matter, space, time, energy, reason, mathematics, information, physics, a world, a universe, etc. All of that is fundamentally wrong.
Consciousness cannot be understood by any appeals to content internal to Consciousness. Every time you appeal to content internal to Consciousness to explain Consciousness, you fail to grasp Consciousness.
Consciousness IS Consciousness. This isn't trivial. Consciousness cannot be explained in terms of any other thing. You have to grasp what Consciousness is directly. Not in terms of any other thing. That is the only way. If you try to use some other thing to explain Consciousness, you immediately screwed up.
The only way to understand Consciousness is to be conscious of yourself being conscious. You just sit and observe yourself being conscious. This is the last thing anyone wants to do, which is why no one understands Consciousness.
Billionaires are shallow minds. They have zero metaphysical depth.
To proudly admit one does not introspect, is... insane.
Documentary about Flat Earthers.
This is a case-study in epistemic pervertry.
When I see Flat Earthers, my first reaction is not, "Haha! What deluded idiots!" My reaction is: "If a human mind can convince itself so thoroughly of something like that, then the mind can convince itself of anything. The mind is so powerful that it can convince itself that it is a human in a physical world." That is the obvious lesson.
Flat Earthers don't prove science correct. They prove that science is as much a self-deception as Flat Earth. That's the epistemic lesson no one is learning. A scientist is as deluded about science as a Flat Earther is about Earth. This is the one thing no scientist is allowed to admit. But it is 100% true.