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  • The argument isn't if rocks have individual consciousness.

    The fact is that rocks exist inside consciousness.

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  • I don't need to defend the idea with the ideas of a system that hasn't first proven itself.

    To say anything about the world, you blatantly obviously need consciousness first. That's the status quo. The burden of proof is on materialists.

    I already gave definitions in my first post.

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  • Scientific thought demands proof of consciousness using matter as the base assumption, yet matter itself is only ever observed through consciousness. It’s a circular trap: the method assumes what it’s supposed to prove.

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  • Falsifiability? Prove that matter exists before consciousness.

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  • Consciousness is the principle within which electrons exist.

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  • No.

    All of those things exist inside A consciousness.

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  • Consciousness is fundamental to reality. Science-based thinking (but not science itself) has put matter as the fundamental element but actually has never been able to prove it. To be able to prove that matter gives rise to consciousness, you'd have to step out of consciousness and point to matter. Which you cannot do. Not talking about individual consciousness where you can just point at someone's brain: that experience of pointing at someone's brain is happening inside consciousness, how else would you know about it.

    Not to be confused with Solipsism, that's the thinking mind. I'm talking about Idealism, the raw state of pure experience before thought.

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  • Mainly because of the default web interface. I tried having an account and it was immediately annoying and counter intuitive to try to navigate. Loading up the account page takes forever for some reason. And i couldn't get it to login at all on Summit.

    I just find the default Lemmy more comfy.

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  • I've been using !summit@lemmy.world for a year now. Very happy with it.

    Doesn't seem to like piefed though but I don't like piefed either so, eh.

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  • Do you ever feel like you need to cry but can't?

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  • For me, psilocybin wasn't even enough. I did one round in a therapy setting with MDMA, 5gs of mushrooms. Then later another round with just 5g of mushrooms. Mostly just laying in bed, listening to specific music with the facilitator making sure I stay hydrated and all that. I cried a bit but it didn't feel like it got quite there. Mostly it was boring. I was quite frustrated because there was so much hype about psychedelic therapy but of course I was the one super special boy on whom even a high dose of mushrooms didn't accomplish much. Because of course it can't be that easy for me.

    I'm sure it was minor long lasting effects though but it wasn't the dramatic shift I was secretly hoping for.

    I however did get the opportunity to do 5-meo and that... did things. Just the handshake round made me feel the worst possible emotional pain. Then the second round made me scream, dry-vomit and convulse. I thought I shat and pissed myself (thankfully not, though the facilitator said it wouldn't have been the first time and it would've been fine). I felt like my whole being was put through a blender. Then somehow I still did the final round which was more of the same. I was with a competent facilitator and a few friends and weirdly, it felt good to have people witness it all without judgment. In fact I think that was one of the most important factors because it was other people that had taught me to suppress and push everything down. Having a different set of people hold space while I went through that all (and provide hugs after) was profoundly healing.

    Afterwards for the first time in my life I actually felt healthily empty inside. The sense of stuck emotions was gone. It didn't magically make me happy, I seem to just have a chronic depression, but at least I didn't (and still don't) feel dragged down by unprocessed feelings. I don't have this constant sense of "something is wrong".

  • Hey Lemmy, how do you deal with existential crisis?

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  • Surrender.

    Not resignation. Surrender.

    (Several years of reading philosophy, meditation, Zen Buddhism, resolving mental health issues, trauma work, therapy, psychedelic therapy, going through my personal hell, dropping self-hatered etc. but you can skip the hard stuff and just accept that all you ever amount to is the dash between your birthday and time of death. It's very liberating once you stop believing the idea that you, or anything really, is "supposed" to be special. Or indeed that there even is a "you" - that's just another way your mind is keeping busy. Vast majority of people take the long way around though.)

  • What improved your quality of life so much, you wish you did it sooner?

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  • Not nihilism, Nondual Buddhism.

  • What improved your quality of life so much, you wish you did it sooner?

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  • A lot of things, but they are "just" beliefs. They're just narratives about narratives about narratives but they may be useful. I believe my hand will burn if I put it on a candle flame. Which is an intense experience I'm inclined to avoid. But it's neither a good or bad experience. I'm not going to go telling people that they should believe as I do. But I can tell them that by my assessment, it's pretty damn likely they'll experience pain if they put their hand on the flame. Up to them what they do with that.

    In terms of my worldview, I "believe" that we're just being, existence, experience. "Matter" is a story. "Spirit" is a story. Both camps demand an opposition to another which is inherently dualistic and as such, misleading and pointless. Putting any of this in words is silly because each word in itself is just a story, a concept, a belief. Best but deeply flawed description of reality I can muster at the moment is that it's an experience of a free fall in total darkness.

  • What improved your quality of life so much, you wish you did it sooner?

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  • Meditation and philosophical inquiry. Spent a lot of time believing the default vaguely-Christian-materialist-dualist framework that western culture has been brainwashing people into for centuries, pretending it's "objectively true".

  • How to motivate people to be part of the change?

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  • Build a community. Don't just expect people to randomly see you do something and get inspired. Actively build a real life face to face community with certain values - and don't expect help. Welcome any that comes but don't expect it. Do not discuss politics explicitly, focus on core values.

    Organize a weekly outing event to pick up litter or something. Chat with people. Do it even if nobody shows up.

  • What is a cold hard truth people have to accept in life?

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  • At best you can have a convincing illusion of control. But life is always entirely beyond your control. Ideally you learn to flow with it, including how it flows through you.

  • If you could add one book to the required reading curriculum for people under 18, what would it be?

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  • These are more accessible modern works that point you to more classical works if you're interested:

    Tantra Illuminated by Christopher Wallis

    Roots of Yoga by Jim Mallinson

    Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau

    The World of Tibetan Buddhism by the Dalai Lama

    People like to recommend the Heart Sutra and Pali Suttas, and Bhagavad Gita but I'd say it's better to get some intro first so you can at least become aware of any prior assumptions you have about the world and realize those works come from a wildly different experience of being.

    Bonus: Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe The Hermetic Tradition in African Philosophy by Theophilus Okere Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram

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  • Welcome! Hope you enjoy.

    If you steer close to questions about metaphysics and spirituality, I highly recommend stepping outside the western paradigm. A lot of our philosophy is saturated with Christianity-influenced background assumptions, way, way more than people realize. Reaching all the way to modern psychology. It was very fascinating to recognize (and discard) them in my own thinking - and I was a basic intellectual atheist with what I incredibly naively thought was 0 Christian influence in the way I viewed the world.