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is DeGrasse´s method upside-down?

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Neil DeGrasse: “We have to objectify science by removing the bias of human senses and human experience.”
Also Neil DeGrasse: “We haven’t been able to understand what consciousness is.”


I have the intuition that you will never understand consciousness if you take it away from the equation.

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Yeah absolutely. Everyone needs *self, or *experience, in order to experience anything thereafter, so its entangled w/ everything. But either way we cannot understand consciousness, for the word itself does not point to anything.

Ergo the search for "a truth within what being conscious is" is itself a question around "what reality is", for everything is experience...

That is, you cannot take away experience, you cannot take away biases, nor can you take away reality, for they are all words that point to something else that is without words for it. In the attempt to do Science that way, it would be the attempt to misunderstand reality. But this is true from the perspective of investigating consciousness as well, for it too, it does not point or lead to anything, unless you yourself have an experience that redefines and reincapsulates the meaning of "consciousness & reality"~as it would pertain to reality as a whole.


Paraphrase from Poimandres (Corpus Hermeticum): "... that which is in the Word is also in ourselves."

Greek Magical Papyri (PGM): "I call upon the Word of the All, that which binds heaven and earth, and let it manifest in the circle."

Plato – Cratylus (439–440): "A name is a likeness of the thing itself; if rightly spoken, it carries the essence of what it names."

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46 minutes ago, kavaris said:

it does not point or lead to anything, unless you yourself have an experience that redefines and reincapsulates the meaning of "consciousness & reality"~as it would pertain to reality as a whole.

A few yrs ago I came to the logical conclusion that there cannot exist anything that is unknown by a consciousness. Later, I confirmed this with experience and psychedelics but there are things that I'm not yet aware of. actualized.org are always mentioning that consciousness = nothing. I haven't realized that thing yet but I also don't want to blindly believe it. 

Rupert Spira says something like: "Consciousness is sneaky and impossible to grasp." Probably one have to accept first that it is impossible to understand these kind of things.

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