Sensations a la Allah & Penrose Shadows

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> Nisargadatta , " cerosoul " <pedsie6@> wrote:

> >

> > Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain@> wrote:

> > >

> > > Nisargadatta , " tom " <jeusisbuen@> wrote:

> > > >

> > > > Today, driving--such a great time for pondering the Great

> Matter--it

> > > > occurred to me that the car ahead of me--snappy little red

job--was

> > > > just a bundle of sensations. Then it occurred to me that

> " sansations "

> > > > is a kind of dream word, I mean something speculative or

> > > > imaginary.That red car was not sensations at all. It

> was...{pointing}

> > > > just that!

> > > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > If the self is not tangible.......how tangible are its impressions?

> >

> > P: And yet, you hit the brakes when the intangible takes the form

> > of a car slowing down ahead of you. There is a name for a mind

> > split between contradictory ideas and actitions. I'll give a hint it

> > is a medical term.

>

> " you hit the brakes when the intangible takes the form

> of a car slowing down ahead of you. "

> vs.

> " the brakes are hit when the intangible takes the form

> of a car slowing down ahead. " (using passive voice)

>

> That's a potentially very different interpretation.

>

> Even life-threatening situations don't necesarily require

> activation from a self-center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the big problem in the metaphysics of quantum mechanics is the

 

question of where to place the split between the observer and the

 

observed.

 

 

 

the astonishing finding of von Neumann is that its placement is

 

irrelevant to any measured event.

 

 

 

the Feynman rules for the world below the split and the classical

 

rules for the world above the split are so clever that the split is

 

moveable.

 

 

 

this is the brilliant manner in which the quantum duality avoids the

 

difficulties encountered by the previous dualities of Plato, Descartes

 

and Kant.

 

 

 

previous dualities contained inconsistencies when the two sides were

 

compared.

 

 

 

there are no inconsistencies between the two halves of the quantum

 

duality.

 

 

 

present quantum theory, with its flexible split placement, allows the

 

neural correlates of awareness to be above the split (the neural

 

correlates of awareness become the observer) and the remaining

 

(unconscious) neural activity to be below.

 

 

 

this is the placement advocated by von Neumann, Wigner and Stapp.

 

 

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