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Yes I didn't say others are not sentient. I said it's an unresolvable issue. Since you only have experience of your own sentience. Just making a clear distinction that your own conscience is certainly True. While others will remain a mystery.

@Nahm except it is possible. I have done it.

I never said that. You can play video games all day long. And that's about as enlightened as you can get. God doesn't give a F. You finally can be happy. Consider that if you are not happy in life.. That's because you are not Conscious of Truth.

@Vibroverse your understanding of "True" is not the same for me. My own definition of TRUTH=undeniably True. Only direct experience meets this definition. All philosophy is just conceptual noise.

Nope. Direct experience is certain. Memory isn't. Neither is an external material objective world. You are intelligent enough to see that I'm not saying solipsism here.. I'm saying "it's not certain" that existence is an objective medium and not just figment of your consciousness. Like a dream. One cannot validate or invalidate the existence of that which supposedly exists outside one's own subjective experience. For example you can't prove that the past really happened.. You can't prove that history happened... Yeah you moan all you want about history but you cannot prove it. All you have is a present moment. Heard of simulation theory argument? You can't prove that you are not a brain in a vat.. Which is an updated version of Rene Descartes's evil demon doubt. Common to many science fiction stories.. it presents a scenario in which a mad scientist.. machine.. or other entity might remove a person's brain from the body.. suspend it in a vat of life-sustaining liquid.. and connect its neurons by wires to a computer which would provide it with electrical impulses identical to those the brain normally receives.According to such stories.. the computer would then be simulating reality (including appropriate responses to the brain's own output) and the "disembodied" brain would continue to have perfectly normal conscious experiences.. such as those of a person with an embodied brain.. without these being related to objects or events in the real world. This is also similar to simulation theory. It's actually not possible to prove with 100 %certainty that we are not inside a video game right now that some teenagers are playing in a different universe. All you can be certain of is your direct moment of experience.

I answered this point. It's not that I'm denying memories...or the past.. Or other beings.. Or atoms and molecules.. Or galaxies etc... Because all these things you have no direct experience of In the present moment....I'm NOT denying these things..... I'm making a clear distinction between what is undeniably True And certain and what isn't... The only thing that is certain is your direct experience. Anything else is beliefs.

@Endangered-EGO every philosophy is false.

@Endangered-EGO @VeganAwake @Jodo More or less.... It doesn't take much intelligence to recognize that direct experience is all you ever Had and all you ever will have of reality. Make the distinction between the sensation of your hands? and all your thoughts and concepts (including spiritual concepts ). It's not hard to make. You can do it. Actual reality only comes to you through direct experience. Looking at your hand and thinking about your hand are two different things. One is sense.. one is thought. What we gotta get clear about is what is real and what is belief. If you close your eyelids.. your house disappears from your senses right? But you still believe the house exists. But see.. your belief at that point is a concept.. not sensed ..right? That's what it means that your house disappears when you are not conscious of it . Technically what disappeared is your visuals of the house. Your belief that the house is more than that is not in the house but in your head. And those beliefs may persist when you close your eyes.. but your reality of the house.. The visuals have vanished. See the difference here? What I'm trying to show to you is how much of your reality is actually conceptual instead of literal. When you become more mindful of this.. You can start to see that many beliefs you have about what is real and true are in fact false beliefs. Your visual of your house is not your concept of your house. Often times we take the conceptual house and think that that is what is real. No.. technically what is real is your thought as something sensed and the visuals of the house. The thought-story (the meaning of the thought sensed) is not real.. Yet that is what unenlightened people take to be most real.

@LastThursday you could call it cheesecake if you like. Now your point Is that the raw data is not the same thing as the label ? Yes will give ya that. Now stick with the raw data of the thing that we colloquially call "hand".. How is that not "the Truth"?. Or the thing that we colloquially understand from the word "Truth"?

Since we are communicating... There is the barrier of language. Absolute Truth is the framing itself. And the info that is being framed. It's simply everything that exists or is happening. Are you denying that there is even such thing as "truth"? Notice how self-defeating that claim is...... How can truth doesn't exist? Do you realize that Truth is the only thing there is? Isn't your denial of Truth itself a claim of Truth? Direct experience is right here. Take a look at it. Don't speculate. Derive the answer from direct experience itself not through thinking about it abstractly. No. How so? How is your experience of sight a concept? How is your hand a concept? I just don't get it A concept would be something like "the holy trinity". Or "atoms and molecules". Which you have never experienced directly

@James123 I know arguing with you is futility.

Dude what are you talking about? OP summarized :"no beliefs.. No conceptual knowledge. Only direct experience is Truth".

Yes. Of course. Go look at the mirror and find them. You can call them sweet potatoes for all I care.. But "they" are there. @allislove what monkey mind are you talking about? Did you even read OP?

Isn't that solipsism? I wouldn't go as far as saying "there is only my experience and none of you guys are experiencing anything". The correct formulation is "only my experience is certain to exist.".big difference.

Don't be upset.. If you like.. You can join your mother next time. But she might reject it. She wants it all for herself.

I'm disappointed the thread got derailed by dumb questions.

Yes she enjoyed her time. Tell her I say "halo" back at her.

Cool.. Then go find where she is hanging out. As I told you.

@wwhy wwhy don't you go found where your own mother is hanging out? Wwhy?

Well super strictly speaking.... My mom is not around me at the moment... And if I'm not going to rely on memories... Then no... "I have a mother" is not the Truth at this precise moment of experience. Unlike the screen that is in front of my face. Now this might sound "weird" or whatever. But only because people are not used to radical degrees of epistemic honesty.

@wwhy stop being dense and get my point. What one believes is not the determinator of Truth.

And I'm dead serious.... How the fuck am I supposed to know that "for certain"?.... I mean you could do all the DNA tests and show you photos when you were a little kid... You can even film the moment of birth (video).. Only to wake up and find out it was a dream and you are actually the son of an alien...... Only. this. Is certain.

I guess you are just poking some fun. In case you aren't.. Of course this is false. There is no past millisecond. It's always NOW. The past millisecond when it happened it was NOW. And if it's no longer NOW then it's no longer True for you. @James123 read first and perhaps try to understand what I'm saying. For goodness sake. @Leo Gura Sorry can't Untag.

@Leo Gura I don't know about "EVERYTHING". For all I know.. This slice of experience that I'm having right now could be completely context-less... It could be floating in the middle of nowhere... If I can't see the back of my head right now then I can't be certain of it's Truth. Important point... I'm not saying there isn't anything outside of my precise experience at this precise moment... I'm saying the content of my own experience in this precise moment is sure more true (certain) than anything whatsoever.

Perhaps you could 'point' me where I got wrong. Since I don't disagree with "none of what you think is Truth is Truth".