Can we ever really understand consciousness?

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Re: Can we ever really understand consciousness?

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My favorite soap!

:popcorn:
"Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise." --Surangama Sutra

Phenomenon, vast as space, dharmata is your base, arising and falling like ocean tide cycles, why do i cling to your illusion of unceasing changlessness?
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gnegirl wrote:My favorite soap!

:popcorn:
I prefer Game of Thrones. :smile:

/magnus
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Re: Can we ever really understand consciousness?

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5heaps wrote:
adinatha wrote:If you have an idea that there is space, then yes. How do you separate space from your awareness? Impossible. These two are co-emergent.
they are different things, they exist as separate things by definition. perhaps what youre trying to say is that in order for mind to arise it needs an object to engage with (ie. cognition is not possible without cognition of something). but this still doesnt explain how mind is like "the illusion of space", which is an ontological statement, rather than a statement about its production
subject and object are interdependent.
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heart wrote:
gnegirl wrote:My favorite soap!

:popcorn:
I prefer Game of Thrones. :smile:

/magnus
more drama here :guns:
"Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise." --Surangama Sutra

Phenomenon, vast as space, dharmata is your base, arising and falling like ocean tide cycles, why do i cling to your illusion of unceasing changlessness?
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