/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16096089
>>16096076
"Magic" is a very anthroprocentric concept in itself

If you think about something, you are inducing a potential in the ground of reality, what's refered to as "manifestation"

The more you develop this potential, the higher the chance of a discharge (resembling that which you were originally thinking of) from the ether into psychophysicality in whatever shape or form. It literally is that shrimple

Here's the rub though, i wouldn't recommend actively fucking around with nonphysical forces (especially not ouija boards, scrying mirrors and the like), they always demand to be "paid back" in some shape or form. For some people, this kind of stuff goes horribly wrong

Rather, the brain is in mind.

It is an icon representing your mental activity to other mental agents in the universal mind. An icon will of course coorelate with what it represents, so neural correlates are accounted for in this view.

Just like that, the hard problem no longer exists. The brain is accounted for. Mind is accounted for. The world is accounted for.

You are the shard of an infinite universal mind. Some call it god. Some call it all. Some call it one. Some call it nothing.

There is not a SINGLE conscious experience that Materialists can explain purely in terms of material/physical entities.

Take the taste of salt. A materialist can not give me the precise neural activity that must be the taste of salt, and could not be the smell of sulfur, the burn of a hot stove, the taste of chocolate, or any other conscious experience.

This is not limited to the taste of salt. There is not a single conscious experience they can explain. Not a one.

That is a remarkable failure.

>>15426259
As it turns out, we know empirically that the cognitive mechanisms do exist in nature and produce precisely these effects. Your mistake is in your certainty that individual subjectivity could be anything but an illusion.

>>15426132
>So what you are speaking about is mysticism
>mysticism
Wrong. We know empirically from dissociative identity disorder (DID) that consciousness can give rise to many operationally disjoint centers of concurrent experience (alters), each with its own personality and sense of identity. While dreaming, a dissociated human mind can manifest multiple, concurrently conscious alters that experience each other from second- and third-person perspectives. The alters’ experiences are also mutually consistent, in the sense that the alters all seem to perceive the same series of events, each alter from its own individual subjective perspective. Recent neuroimaging research has objectively (and compellingly) confirmed the reality of DID. Therefore, our empirical grasp of severe forms of dissociation shows that a DID-like process at a universal scale is, at least in principle, a viable explanation for how individual subjects arise within the universal mind. As such, we may all be 'alters' (dissociated personalities) of universal consciousness.