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Sorry, Austin. I think you have an 'intelligent' agenda to fit in somewhere, and it skewers the truth every time. Why don't you work from the premise that there is NO Greater 'force' other than Nature itself, and just be pleasantly surprised when you find to the contrary? - Or, equally as happy that you have discovered a truly Greater Truth for yourself, and that you can now know without shadows of doubt, having actually experienced the Reality?

Reality, as we perceive it, is not an 'illusion' (I mean, really, is that not a slightly mad contradiction in itself?). It is just not as permanent as we have previously believed it to be. You must account for the changes, which are real, as observed and lived.

As far as Brain function goes, I could not find the one word that describes our everyday thinking best: Judgment. Judgments are biased and personal in the extreme, no less at 'species' level. This makes us responsible for our actions, which is another reason why responsibility for judgments is shunned, why we let 'rogue' politicians do the things they do.

I feel, however, that you are close, but need to re-discover the issue of 'opposites'. You may find the urge to go from the extremes of 'permanence' to 'illusion', dissipates. 'Permanence' IS the illusion that we have carried with us, culturally, for thousands of years. Thus, it is ingrained into our language and thoughts, and difficult to 'transcend'.

The old and worn out 'tree analogy' is a non-starter. The sound-wave produced cannot depend on whether there is an ear to hear it or not. The sound-wave either exists or it doesn't. If we go and sit in a cave, does it mean that the Sun does not shine at all, in reality? Does the whole planet freeze every time someone goes pot-holeing?

The whole Universe is a wave-function (motion of what exists), so at fundamental level all waves operate in the same universal way (spherical, in-out motion). Find out for yourself, you may be amazed at how close you already are, but just need to find the truth within yourself of a realisation of the (w)holistic functioning of reality. You would then leave the tree analogies and such where they belong...


"What’s really out there,
I suppose, are waves and fields, which our minds
Sense in representative ways, like “red”. "

- Austin, you cannot 'suppose'. And do not react 'for' or 'against' my words either... Find out! Eliminate all falsity and impossibility, and what is left?

Not pulling apart, just trying to help. You are close, and your fine effort deserves a 'leg-up'..


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