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who said I was a solipsist? I am an analytical idealist. I believe that matter is the extrinsic appearance of consciousness when viewed from a third perspective. This view bypasses the hard problem of consciousness and is more parsimonious since it does not infer a category of experience outside of what we directly experience.

seriously? damn. What states are beyond cessation and God realization? I'm actually super curious

yes but its a million times deeper than you can imagine <3

What good is God realisation? You can have the most profound God realisation and then go back your neurotic tendencies and attachments.

Happy new year G

When you look at the phone screen, you see the image. The image is the collection of pixels on a screen. when you cut open someone's brain, you don't see the colour blue or the smell of coffee, only neurons. Yet all of this exists in your conscious experience.

Tate fans rn

Maybe they watched your social matrix video...

@Tyler Robinson Its actually kinda depressing.

Tate fans are clinging to conspiracy theories at the moment.

I dunno, I can think of a few reasons...

I've been doing IFS every day and ive stopped journalling because there are too many parts to count. I've removed a significant emotional blockage which was a foundation of my entire mind. My underlying shame surrounding sex and my inability and desperation to get it is completely gone. I feel free but also empty like i've lost a part of myself. Turns out this underlying shame was on of the reasons I started self improvement in the first place.

prolly choke him out

How can there be psychedelics if there is no brain?

You misunderstand me. I don't deny the existence of thinks outside of my individual subjective awareness. The most reasonable thing to assume is that there is an external world outside of my awareness. I can understand this external world by using mental constructs. One mental construct is matter. However I have no access to any other category of existence other than consciousness. Therefore the most reasonable assumption is that the external world is also made of consciousness. A materialist posits a new category of existence that is ontologically separate from consciousness that then gives rise to consciousness through its behaviours. How am I being dogmatic? Have you ever experienced anything separate from your conscious awareness? I have no idea what your trying to say. With my truth I can explain both consciousness and the behaviour of the external world. Unlike materialism. I don't know what you are trying to say here. This is a false equivalency as there are no explanatory gaps in your examples. There is a difference between the neurons in my brain when i see the colour green and the experience of the colour green. When you cut open a brain, there is no colour green. If you think consciousness is a fundamental property of matter then that is panspychism, not materialism. How do you know? Seems a bit dogmatic. Again, this is panpsychism, not materialism. You literally just admitted here that you would choose practicality over truth. This is exactly what the ego mind does. Is this not the definition of dogma? You would still believe in materialist even if it were proven that everything is one field. But all separations are theoretical ideas in your head. Its a shame that you don't want to debate anymore but I do agree that this debate was going nowhere. I think the main problem is that you don't actually understand idealism and nonduality and instead attack a straw man version of it. Perhaps if you actually understood what I was trying to argue, we would have a better debate. If you want understand the idealist/nondual argument better then I would recommend the works of Bernardo Kastrup and Donald Hoffmann. While I disagree with you and was perhaps annoyed by a lack of logic in certain arguments, I do admire the fact that you admit that you don't know everything. Thx and have a nice day.

Its interesting because my parents lived under Mao and they have an extremely favourable view of his regime. I know there's a lot of propaganda involved but still...

@Leo Gura Would western liberal democracy have worked in china?

Wow! I wonder how you came across such a rare, unknown thinker..............

He's pretty much textbook Turquoise.

Straw man argument. I simply doubt the existence of separation. I only experience a unified field of conscious awareness. Separations are things my mind generates. I gave you proof in the example of quantum fields. And they were all disproved with a field analogy. You are still identifying with the contents of consciousness rather than the underlying consciousness itself. You are begging the question as your arguments implicitly assume a separation between things (i.e. a circular argument). You have not yet understood the idea that 'you' and 'me' are excited states of one underlying field. You are accusing me of not using logic, yet these arguments are not logical at all. Another strawman argument, I have never claimed such a thing. You are mistaking your ego mind with the universal consciousness. Your ego mind is a pattern within universal consciousness. This is the main crux of your problem and most other materialists. Conceptual separations are 'practical' but they are not real. You care more about practicality than the truth. The illusion that things are separate is useful for your survival so you take it as absolute truth not because it is actually true. Practical is not the same as true. You care more about survival than truth which is fine. They would be part of the same circuit. The concept of separate devices exists in your mind. What makes devices separate? your mind does. Now extend that analogy to every object in the universe. You accuse me of using dogma yet you posit separation as absolute truth without ever questioning it. This is literally dogma. There are extremely analytical, logical arguments for nonduality made by philosophers and scientists like Bernardo Kastrup and Donald Hoffman. Since we don't have access to anything besides consciousness, why assume anything else except consciousness exists? Here is the most important question that no materialist can answer. How does unconscious matter give rise to subjective experience? The reason I abandoned materialism for nonduality was because materialism cannot even begin to answer this question. Thank you for your politeness btw.

Yeah I got that when I reloaded. Still surprised that this was the prompt that broke it

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That's because this AI was trained on huge, diverse amounts of data. There was a GPT AI trained on 4chan that started spouting toxic hate speech. https://www.analyticsinsight.net/how-4chan-trained-ai-became-a-hate-speech-machine/

The water is just an analogy. The separations you are making are mentally constructed. What separates one thing from another? Its your mind that draws the imaginary line. If you want to talk about atoms, then according to quantum field theory all particles are excitations of their underlying field. For example, electrons are excited states of the electron field. In the same way, human minds can be considered excited states of the universal field of consciousness. The separations are mind generated and not really real. See back to my whirlpool analogy. The difference is the same difference as a whirlpool and an ocean. You can know simply by being aware of your own mind and the sensation of 'you'. Ok if you want to be logical, how do you prove materialism? How does unconscious matter give rise to subjective experience? Otherwise you are just asserting without evidence. thx

Anyone else spend a lot of time arguing with skeptics online? Sometimes I'm browsing on reddit and I see these so called skeptics 'debunking' spirituality with their materialist worldview. Sometimes their arguments are so self biased and stupid that I feel obligated to post a rebuttal. I then get dragged into these long tedious back and forths trying to expose the flaws in their arguments. This honestly wastes so much of my time and energy but its hard to stop. I just get so annoyed when materialists act like their intellectually above everyone else. How do I stop getting triggered?