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I think so too in a way . What do you mean by “with sufficient consciousness” you mean consciousness is the substance of everything and that it “dreams” realities?

Yea I think I’ve read that too. Yea I understand. I’m not gonna get stuck on a detail

Don’t know of either of those

Why fear death? I get if someone is afraid of hell, because that would be scary asf, or some bad reincarnation (that has been my fear as a child), but void, nothingness, everlasting sleep, why would that be scary? Think about it, is it ever scary to fall asleep? No , then death (if it’s like that) won’t be scary. If you believe in reincarnation then that could even be positive, so the things you miss in this life might happen in your next life? Yay . lol just some thoughts.

A new species of homo sapien has been discovered! The no self people!!! hahah but yea it’s hard to tell sometimes if someone is that or not. It’s kind of like the next step in the human evolution.

Such sweet message

Solipsism seems like the silliest idea to me to be honest. Why would reality be limited to only one sense of self? I enjoy pondering these things.

Shouldn’t you have used the “look at this car” meme 😹

Some non dualists like Jim Newman whom I like how he speaks, says something alone the lines of how continuity is a part of the “dream” , and that reality is actually chaotic, this is chaos. Something like that. It’s weird because for us reality seems very structured. But maybe they mean the total of reality

I rarely eat sausage so I don’t know. But aren’t there some sausages with minimum ingredients that would be healthy? Thanks for the info. I didn’t know. I know that taste can correlate with what’s good/bad for us. So something poisonous probably tastes bad most of the time. But aren’t there many circumstances when it’s not the case that taste corresponds to if it’s good/bad for us. Also considering we are used to things like salt, oils, and heavily processed foods makes our taste buds more likely to dislike natural veggies. So whether we think something is tasty or not might not be a good indicator of it being good/bad for us in this day and age.

Yea from the info I have it seems it all varies based on the vegetable. And yes I agree most important is to eat plants at all, and a variety of them. From a little research I’ve done science supports a predominantly plant based diet, so plants being the main part of the diet. So that aligns with what you wrote

I don’t mean it’s sciences job I just used science as example how it’s one of those questions that are pondered widely hahah I might sound hesitant but it’s just because I truly don’t know. But if you feel you’ve came to a truth then I respect that for you. For me I still don’t know but I reflect on it

Yea I was thinking it was due to the change in perception of time. It’s cool . And yes I can imagine memory can mess it up.

Wtf that’s so cool. You mean the time perception was of 100 years not actually 100 years? Now I get why you mentioned salvia in that other thread talking about brains and consciousness.

It’s very fascinating indeed. I have wondered to myself about this too. Like maybe all the rules to reality is just one of the infinite possibilities that reality can be. Like reality could dream up another kind of reality with opposite rules. But then the thing is, just because something COULD exist, does it mean that it does? Like maybe all the possible scenarios don’t exist And why is this reality so structured? Why isn’t it just random things appearing, like a pink elephant jumping around one moment then a rainbow unicorn the next. Why is my apartment the same everyday, why is my body the same every day. It’s one of the most fascinating questions. And why doesn’t a self appear in objects (or so it seems can we really know) like a stone doesn’t have a self. So it seems in this particular reality a brain is needed for a sense of self. But does it need to be that way always? Who knows.

Yea that’s right the self is the basis that then sees selves everywhere. But I think that’s reasonable. Yea you could say it’s all appearance of the absolute

Everything you experience is within your experience. Exactly . I don’t know for now the answer to the rest and I don’t know what would be required to know.

Ok cool. You mention near death experience to prove a point of how consciousness can exist outside the brain right. I’ve had out of body astral projection so I have some experience along those lines. It for sure does put a question on how it all works When it comes to having a brain that sounds a little solipsistic. It’s like “how do you know other have selves just because you have” it’s a valid question but I think it’s silly to assume you’d be the only one with a self. Similarly, you could look at anyone’s brain, why would you think you don’t have one. You can look at your arm and say you got an arm. Just because you can’t see or feel brain doesn’t mean it’s not there. Or actually we can’t know that. If you lose feeling in your arm and move it away from your vision, if we think everything that exists is our direct experience, we could say arm no longer exists until it’s within your sense perceptions

I would point to my head but I can’t pin point it exactly They are sense perceptions from my pov yes, or you could say it’s all appearance

Self is an appearance right. Brain is an appearance too. It seems appearances affect each other . So if you drop a glass on the floor it breaks, the appearance/form of the floor is interacting and affecting the appearance that is the glass , making it break. That’s how it appears. That’s why I say the brain produces the self. The appearance of a self is created by the appearance of a brain I don’t know this, it’s just what I think.

Those things mentioned alter or remove sense of self right ? They all probably involve changes in the brain. I don’t mean that a brain has to have a self : the self could disappear. But it seems the brain is the type of appearance that produces a sense of self, and it doesn’t appear in other objects that’s what I mean by it being tied to the brain What is NRE?

I think for the self to arise there needs to be a structure that can produce that self. And this structure needs to be stable through time to produce a self that is stable through time. And this structure is a brain. And this brain took years of evolution to evolve. So you’re conscious now of reality , and you’re asking why is reality this way, well because it’s in this type of reality that consciousness/self arises, giving you the ability to ask that question

Why can’t sense of self appear in objects? It seems like the sense of self is bound to the brain

I meant isn’t that something that science has been pondering that we don’t know. Whether there is something “behind the scenes” of experience or not. If there is an objective external world (I don’t think so). So when you mention that your sense organs don’t exist outside your experience, I said that we don’t know. But from my experience yes I agree it seems as if everything is what is occurring in my experience

So good written