Not sure how to ask this properly, so I’ll just put it plainly.
I (the subjective self) may or may not exist
That doesn’t mean anything, it just is
We can’t really comprehend this, not because we’re missing something
But because the self can’t get outside itself to understand what’s beyond it
Any attempt to do so is already shaped by being a self
I’m not saying this is profound, or depressing, or enlightening
I’m not looking for meaning in it
I just want to know if there’s a name for seeing things this way?
If this kind of stance has ever been named or written about, I’d love to know. The closest Ive found is things like quietism or madhyamaka Buddhism, yet these are very intertwined with belief and meaning.
Was randomly watching this video and while he mentions the Dao instead of Tao, it made me think of this thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOagUj-fYM
But he’s an anesthesiologist who spent like 30 years working with Sir Roger Penrose on what consciousness is. Penrose is probably the smartest living physicist right now, him and Hawking worked together to finish a lot of Einsteins work.
But that’s what I was talking about how with crazy high level physics, shit starts sounding like a religion.
Like, no one knows more about consciousness than this guy in the video, but he’s talking about time crystals and aromatic rings in the brain being the foundation of consciousness and that it doesn’t need a biological body for a consciousness to form…
It all sounds crazy, even if he’s using scientific terms and has proof to back it up.
No not crazy, quite interesting actually! Though, I wonder how this theory could lead to answer the hard problem of consciousness. If we are orchestrated how can we say these event haven’t happened before? And how come we are the current orchestration now. Perhaps if the theory unfolds it could be answered?
But if you are consciousness orchestra A and I am B. A and B are of different patterns but why are you A and I B?