On Who's Authority is the Theory of Everything?

[melanie]

"What is the sound of one hand clapping?"

Who will answer this with authority?

No one who knows the Truth, that's for sure.

[Max™]

I can throw a punch that makes my fingers clap loudly against my palm.

I can also clap my palm against my forehead, both answers will suffice for my purposes.

[Profpat]

I can throw a punch that makes my fingers clap loudly against my palm.

I can also clap my palm against my forehead, both answers will suffice for my purposes.

You're right Max, but no forehead, as we want ONE hand. But if you take your four fingers and bring them down to your palm you'll definitely hear clap, clap. Now what is the sound of one hand?

[melanie]

I can throw a punch that makes my fingers clap loudly against my palm.

I can also clap my palm against my forehead, both answers will suffice for my purposes.

Yes Max, the sound you are referring to appeared when those points of contact came together.

You became conscious of the sound, the sound and the hearing of the sound arose concurrently together in Awareness only.

Before the contact was made there was no sound.

When Awareness (latent) knows sensation/sound - Consciousness is born...(appearance)

The contents of Consciousness are not separate from Consciousness.

= 0 >< 1 = ZERO

[melanie]

I can throw a punch that makes my fingers clap loudly against my palm.

I can also clap my palm against my forehead, both answers will suffice for my purposes.

Who is this I and who is this MY ? ok it's Max a name.

In giving names to the body's highly evolved mechanical reactions to it's environment < via sensation >
the names are mistakenly believed to have a separate existential reality where there isn't one.

[Max™]

The arrangement of information composing the person typing this is isomorphic to the concept represented by the use of "my" or "I" by that same person.

[melanie]

The arrangement of information composing the person typing this is isomorphic to the concept
represented by the use of "my" or "I" by that same person.

Yes, it is Max.

You will know this directly when you realise that this is all just thoughts, just thinking, and you are the Awareness of it ALL.

You are the Mind in which it's all appearing.

Where is the centre of a void that has no edge. In and out exist only within relativity.
Relativity exists only between conceptual things.'Conceptual Things' only exist in the knowing of them -
that they 'appear to be things' is the dream. Conceptual things exist only within the dream.

Matter is the residue of Thought. You are IT.

Life is not personal, but persons appear in it.

[Max™]

I assume what you call thought is isomorphic to what I call mathematical expression.

The concepts overlap easily, but I suspect thought itself is a smaller subset of all the possible expressions, as there are things which are unthinkable, but no thoughts which are unthingable things!

[melanie]

I assume what you call thought is isomorphic to what I call mathematical expression.

The concepts overlap easily, but I suspect thought itself is a smaller subset of all the possible expressions, as there are things which are unthinkable, but no thoughts which are unthingable things!

Who experiences them?

[melanie]

I assume what you call thought is isomorphic to what I call mathematical expression.

The concepts overlap easily, but I suspect thought itself is a smaller subset of all the possible expressions, as there are things which are unthinkable, but no thoughts which are unthingable things!

Thought can think of anything......but itself.