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Divad123

(93 posts)

10. Not quite

Reply to edhopper (Reply #8)

Fri Apr 17, 2020, 04:49 PM

Apr 2020

Not exactly-the bliss you can feel during meditation is real in the sense that it's a distinct experience, the pattern of neural activation that the machines read means that it is empirically distinct. Your brain generates your awareness--if you didn't' have the neural networks for It, you wouldn't be able to experience it.

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An intertesting post. guillaumeb Apr 2020 #1

Sometimes Divad123 Apr 2020 #3

What you describe as truths are not factual and have more to do with belief Major Nikon Apr 2020 #2

awareness Divad123 Apr 2020 #4

These are still your beliefs and not facts Major Nikon Apr 2020 #5

standard Divad123 Apr 2020 #6

"Quality" is a subjective observation Major Nikon Apr 2020 #7

epistemology Divad123 Apr 2020 #9

If you are talking about a purely neurological state edhopper Apr 2020 #8

Not quite Divad123 Apr 2020 #10

I don't accept the existence edhopper Apr 2020 #11

not saying that Divad123 Apr 2020 #12

Oh edhopper Apr 2020 #13

Yes Divad123 Apr 2020 #14

Zen edhopper Apr 2020 #15

And Divad123 Apr 2020 #16