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I feely uncomfortable just letting this reply stand like this. I don't think you are evil or a bad person. This reply is 20% emotional and has 80% substance. I will get into how I came to that conclusion when I'm motivated.

I do want to do this, but I need some time to ponder. If you want to read about that older state, this is the relevant post: I need to reconstruct the argument I've made there in my head before I can talk about consciousness

I agree with you completely. Love is the centerpiece of my model. The sentence "[Love is the] structural basis for existence" is a very elegant way to summarize one of my biggest points with this ontology. I have described precisely how this structure of existence which I call "space", can be destroyed, such that love is absent in this post: It's my best post so far. Have you read it? If no than this is a cool thing that we are on the same page in regard to what Love is. This is the relevant part: In my model, Love is the same thing as symbiosis

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Most of what he uploads is pretty solid

What if one were to describe logically what experience is?

I'm calling this "the void". I described it in this post:

I actually did this, back when my theory was still an analytical idealism. I have not come to the point of merging them properly. So I'm open. I think the idea would be that the idea of an infinitely complex low entropy system, which is god consciousness or something, already exists prior to anything. I think that checks out. I need to think more about it though and maybe delve more into Bernardo Kastrup. However, right now I'm more interested in this idea of the mind-topology. Their exists an interesting field called spectral geometry that seems relevant. Right now, I'm trying to see a connection between this idea of the topology and a neural network. But I can't steer my brain into anything anyway so we'll see what happens. I'm interested, why do you think that consciousness doesn't require a prior?

There is a phenomenon that only starts appearing once a low entropy system is complex enough. It's the ideal. The ideal creates the possibility of judgment (not knowledge. It's the tree of judgment not the tree of knowledge.) and from that the ability of self-judgement and from that the ability for self-alienation. What I'm trying to reunite is every being that has passed this threshold and is actively living a life in self-alienation. Yaweh and Zeus symbolise the ideal

It seems like you're talking about something like "Mary's room". The concept of "redness" is also integrated in my model. I am calling this neutral kind of experience "neutral resonance". For example, if you have a person who is only HSP and zero autistic and maximum ADHD (minimum meaning). They will walk around and only see the beauty of "isness" and not the beauty of pattern, nor the beauty of meaning. That's why HSP's love color and can't survive without it for example. The way this works in my example is that a system has more of that sensitivity, if it contains more feedback loops. In my model, a violin is a sensitive system for example, because the cavity in the violin creates a feedback of the sound inside, which amplifies the wave.

The "we would've found it already" assumes that it is easy. I'm asking: what is the difference between saying "the rational numbers can't be explained logically because they are infinite" and "reality can't be explained logically because it is infinite"? This dream of a logical description of reality exists, and it's called "the ideal language". I think it's doable.

It's neither air quality nor ego. It's capitalism

Yes! Love is neither unity, nor duality. It is oneness. It is symbiosis. It is a symphony and a dance. Love is beauty. Love is flourishing. Love is fullness. Love is abundance. Love is harmony. Love is balance. Love is authenticity. Love is self-acceptance and the end of alienation and self-judgement.

I found a good quote from Nietzsche: "If you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you"

Duality in Mythology The struggle between unity and duality is the original sin. Duality is the fragmentation imposed by Yaweh in the myth of the tower of babel. It is the space that Cronos created to end suffocation and allow for life. The law of duality is the force that permanently impedes the human from ever becoming fully one with the divine. It is the fundamental struggle and the driving force of life. Unity and Duality in somatic Experience Unity and duality are encoded in human somatic experience through the hug and the handshake. While the hug maximizes connection and therefore unity, it does not allow for space. At the other hand, the handshake, which is the symbol for partnership and duality, maximizes space with minimum connection through the palms. The Dance The solution of the struggle is the compromise between unity and duality. This state is represented in the couple dance. The couple dance simultaneously creates flow, movement, variation and oscillation. It allows for unity through contact and duality through the centrifugal force created from the rotation. The couple dance is a stable, yet deeply personal space. In that way, it allows for flourishing. The stable, personal space that is created by the dance between the true-self that is nurtured in meditation and the self-image that is nurtured during mind wandering is the necessary condition for sanity and mental health. That is the ultimate explaination of why "sitting" (zazen) is so healing. It allows for the balance through the oscillation between one-pointed meditative states and mind wandering. The three Realms of Hell Self-alienation arises when this equilibrium collapses. A space that looses unity disintegrates and becomes the abyss. This is the ultimate risk of self-differentiation and the struggle for power. The abyss is a state of complete separation with no orientation and no support. In the abyss there is only lonliness and total isolation. A space that looses duality collapses and becomes the maw. This is the ultimate risk of complete unity, which is the infinite. The maw is the state of the devoured. It results from obsession. In the maw, there is absolute constriction and the complete absence of autonomy. A space that looses both unity and duality dissolves and becomes the void. This is the ultimate risk of neither unity nor duality, neither infinite being nor finite being which is nirvana. The void is a state of apathy, depression, and nihilism. It is devoid of both life and love. It is a loss of will and the ambivalence of death. The void is the dark night of the soul. POWER Since life is a delicate balance, it is impossible to avoid these three realms. Acceptance of those will lead to immense power. It is the deal with the devil and the purpose of black magic. The acceptance of the abyss will grant radical independence. The acceptance of the maw will enable one to give and receive unconditional love without fear. The acceptance of the void will enable one to engage in non-action and therefore reach emptiness and end suffering. The Ontology of existential Horror The power that arises from the acceptence of the three realms of hell is why people feel drawn to the art of horror. In horror: The abyss manifest as the alien and the ungraspable. The maw manifests as the amalgamation, the deformation and the suffocation. The void manifests as the loss of will, apathy and nihilism. Depictions of the Realms of Hell The Maw Cells—Louise Bourgeois Anything from Junji Ito I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream—Harlan Ellison The Trial—Franz Kafka The movie Annihilation The Abyss Anything from H.P. Lovecraft Any cosmic horror Notes from the Underground—Fyodor Dostoevsky The Void No longer Human—Osamu Dazai The Stranger—Albert Camus Crime and Punishment—Fyodor Dostoevsky Anything from the band Nirvana

I agree Replace unity with infinity and duality with the finite

What you're talking about is ontology, the method of which is contemplation

@Leo Gura the finite, and the infinite create reality together in harmony.

@Monster Energy i'm not saying that existence is not intelligent. I'm saying that in addition to both the order and chaos aspect, it also has both a finite and an infinite aspect. These also seem to make a unity of opposites. Without the infinite the finite I can't exist, and without the finite, the infinite can't exist. I think your pet example is very fitting. According to my model, different humans have a different access to infinity. For example, if you are a very empathic person, you resonate with the empathy of dogs, and if you are an unempathetic person, you resonate more with cats, for example. Another example is, that an autistic person has a better access to the beauty of complexity, while a neurotropical person has a better access to pride through identity. if you put someone with autism or ADHD in a rally, they will only see stupidity, and therefore the finite. but if a Neurotypical person is very involved with the movement, it can lead them to get glimpse of infinity through that.

@Willy Phallicus Word. Yeah it's a Yin and Yang thing

I am making a distinction between a system and an intelligent system. existence also has a finite aspect that is not intelligent in my view There is no infinity without complexity is what I'm saying

existence is not inherently intelligent. Intelligence arises from order and complexity (also it has to be a system). A gas cloud, for example, has low order and is therefore not intelligent in my definition.

This is the thing that I also don't quite get😅 if the second law of thermodynamics is correct, this means that at the beginning of the universe, there was lower entropy, even though the universe was obviously more chaotic. There seems to be a strange relationship between entropy order and chaos that I don't quite understand yet.

@Monster Energy Order causes more chaos than just chaos

@zurew I see what you mean. You are pointing out the distinction of "the universe has a direction", which is entropy and "the universe has an end goal" which is teleology. Did I get it right?