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isn't it amazing that the " me " finds the sense of self (or the Self)

and consciousness totally amazing? despite all the scientific

efforts, no objective explanation of consciousness can duplicate the

subjective experience of " what it's like to experience things, " by

the little old me.

 

perhaps the subjective experience, the sense of self and

consciousness takes place at the quantum level? who knows?

 

when we lack the understanding of a phenomena, mythology creeps in.

20 years ago in college, i remember debating in a philosophy class

that the mind resides in the brain. most of the students including

the prof defended the old western mythological view that the mind

originates from the divine and cannot be found in the brain.

 

similar to the old western mythology of the mind, the eastern

mythology goes even further and tells us that there is no " me. "

eastern spirituality including advaita is running on borrowed time

because science cannot explain the subjective experience yet. what

will happen one day if science finds this ego devil and its evil twin

consciousness in the brain? will the advaita gurus pack up and go

home?

 

i doubt it. then the focus will shift to the world of ideas and the

meanings in the subjective world of ideas rather than objects and the

objective reality.