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Hmm. I believe (with fairly high confidence—it would take a big surprise to shift me) a combination of empty and closed. Moments of self-observed experience are standalone, and woven into a fabric of memories in a closed, un-sharable system that will (sooner than I prefer) physically degrade into non-experiencing components.
I haven’t found anyone who claims to be open AND is rational enough to convince me they’re not just misstating what they actually experience. In fact, I’d love to hear someone talk about what it means to “want” something if you’re experiencing all things simultaneously.
I’m quite sympathetic to the argument that it is what it is, and there’s no reason to be sad. But I’m also unsure whether or why my acceptance of closed-empty existence makes you sad. Presumably, if your consciousness includes me, you know I’m not particularly sad overall (I certainly experience pain and frustration, but also joy and optimistic anticipation, in a balance that seems acceptable).
But I’m also unsure whether or why my acceptance of closed-empty existence makes you sad.
Because I know the joy of grokking the openness of the “individual” and see the closed approach creating inherent suffering (via wanting for the individual) that cannot be accepted because it seems to be part of the world.
[upvoted for talking about something that’s difficult to model and communicate about]
Hmm. I believe (with fairly high confidence—it would take a big surprise to shift me) a combination of empty and closed. Moments of self-observed experience are standalone, and woven into a fabric of memories in a closed, un-sharable system that will (sooner than I prefer) physically degrade into non-experiencing components.
I haven’t found anyone who claims to be open AND is rational enough to convince me they’re not just misstating what they actually experience. In fact, I’d love to hear someone talk about what it means to “want” something if you’re experiencing all things simultaneously.
I’m quite sympathetic to the argument that it is what it is, and there’s no reason to be sad. But I’m also unsure whether or why my acceptance of closed-empty existence makes you sad. Presumably, if your consciousness includes me, you know I’m not particularly sad overall (I certainly experience pain and frustration, but also joy and optimistic anticipation, in a balance that seems acceptable).
Because I know the joy of grokking the openness of the “individual” and see the closed approach creating inherent suffering (via wanting for the individual) that cannot be accepted because it seems to be part of the world.