KWL: Nonduality

 P. 40: “…sense perception has really always been nondual.”

It's what we add to perception that both expresses our commitments and desire, and separates us from the universal consciousness.

Bahiya got enlightened with the idea "...in the seen only the seen..." from the Buddha. 

Which brings me to the idea of universal consciousness, something I've become interested in reading this book. This article in Popular Mechanics says, "Kleiner and Tull are following Penrose’s example, in both his 1989 book and a 2014 paper where he detailed his belief that our brains’ microprocesses can be used to model things about the whole universe. The resulting theory is called integrated information theory (IIT), and it’s an abstract, “highly mathematical” form of the philosophy we’ve been reviewing."

"In IIT, consciousness is everywhere, but it accumulates in places where it’s needed to help glue together different related systems. This means the human body is jam-packed with a ton of systems that must interrelate, so there’s a lot of consciousness (or phi, as the quantity is known in IIT) that can be calculated. Think about all the parts of the brain that work together to, for example, form a picture and sense memory of an apple in your mind’s eye."

Unrelated but maybe related is the idea of dogecoin. Could you accumulate wealth and then pay for the meme kindness to flood the memeosphere, and would that actually change anything in the world (besides wherever dogecoin resides).

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