true existence = material
false existence = personal
I am = both material and personal. I am a transcendent
Hey cute kid btw!
Can I take a crack at what you're saying here?
true existence = objective
false existence = superposition
I am = subjective within probability limits
To transcend, imo, would place you outside the realm of probability and into superposition. In other words, you would be everywhere at once. In my opinion, this would make you no different than not existing at all. Hence, why I called it "false existence". It's impossible to say, "I'm everywhere all at once," because that would mean you're infinite or nowhere.
Now, things that "are" exist objectively. The chair exists. My body exists, etc and so forth. Certain aspects of those things exist on probabilities, but on the macro level, they exist objectively. They exist without my being aware of them at all.
The part of you that says, "I am", or consciousness, exists on a range of probabilities, within limits. You cannot be everywhere at once, for example. You can only imagine so much. You can only recall so much. You can only experience so much. When you die, regardless of your belief in an afterlife or not .... your body will still remain. It will decompose into "something else", but it will still "be". It's objective. Your consciousness will not. It will cease to be in it's present form. Take a ball bat to your head and notice the same effect to certain degrees. So the phenomenon of consciousness will not remain, although the mechanisms for it will remain and begin to decay ... like a computer with no power source that begins to rust and wear down. Thus, your "consciousness" exists with the range of probabilities that your brain allows. Your imagination and ability to experience this consciousness is also within that range. Let someone take a ball bat to your head while on ayahuasca and you will notice the experience change
But ... it is still within your head. Just because there is a range of "play" there, doesn't mean you're actually experiencing something outside of the head. It's a subjective experience limited by the confines of the objective brain matter, so it experiences probabilities, not actualities. It's this lack of being able to experience an actuality that gives the illusion we are "more than we are", because our conscious perception is limited. Thus, we are limited. We cannot reach that "actuality" with our consciousness. We can never reach that state of "real" because our brain is always processing probabilities based on actualities. Our "awareness" is therefore only aware of the probabilities, not the actualities. Note, this is different from understanding an actuality. Understanding comes retrospectively. We understand something, once the actuality has been processed and we can view the probabilities and identify which ones are "real" and which ones aren't "real". Thus, we can still understand physical laws and mathematical concepts and objective information. But this is because we understand it after the fact. Before the fact, it's still probabilities to our conscious awareness.
ETA: sorry if I'm being confusing with word salad. What I'm trying to say is, that our consciousness is aware of probabilities of things, which are limited. We are not consciously aware of what is actually taking place around us. For this reason, I think the illusion between what is real and what isn't real can become blurred, because we are NEVER really viewing the "real". We are limited. Thus, we come to understand objective information through reinforcement. The chair is always a chair. Society tells us that we are here and need to behave a certain way. Etc and so forth. Remove some of those elements, and a normally "sane" person begins to experience "unreality". Like a person in solitary confinement.
This is how we come to know objective information and can rely on it ... like with science. We have several people concur on a finding, and reproduce it, etc etc ... and thus we can rely on it. BUT ... we are still relying on that information to be true, with out limited consciousness. Our consciousness is always PERCEIVING probabilies and possibilies but not actuals. Understanding is relying on what we agree to be objective. But it is this constant interacting with our environment and processing it with subjectivity that, at times, makes us feel as though we are experiencing a very real, and unexplainable paranormal experience. It's because we are ALWAYS experiencing something subjective. When you push the "boundaries" of the subjective beyond what most do, it doesn't mean you've transcended something. It means just that ... you've pushed the boundaries of the probabilities that your brain is processing. But this doesn't make them reality. They cannot be trusted as such. To become objective, you need others to reinforce this .... otherwise, you go crazy
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