UnbornTao

Feynman on knowing the name of something

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12 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

I bet it is some thing.

Haha, nope. I wasn't lying when I said it was ineffable.

As an analogy, there is seeing, and then there are the objects we see. It's easy to get entangled in all the different objects, to the point where one might even ask "which object am I?". 

The kicker is that seeing itself is never any of the objects and never was. You can say that you're seeing a table and a chair, but you can never say that seeing is a table or a chair.


"The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein

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