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[Philosopher] Whitehead’s panpsychism posits that all actualities – “actual entities” – transition from potentiality to actuality by perceiving the universe around them, choosing what perceptions to internalize, and then becoming objective/actual based on those perceptions. This is an iterative process, moment to moment to moment …
This process takes place in literally every part of the universe in perpetuity, from subatomic particles to humans to perhaps even more complex structures beyond our current understanding.
It is a perpetual oscillation between potentiality and actuality that produces the universe in each moment.
—Tam Hunt and Christof Koch
Eco, Ego, Eros
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Whatever happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.—Galway Kinnell
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What we perceive as space is the end result of visual information processing. It is an approximation of space that is no different than the space you would see if you would wear a Virtual Reality headset. Slap on a VR and look at how it simulates space.
The space you see in a VR is no different than the space you see in objective reality. Both are rendered approximations of space simulated by virtualization in the brain. All of that space doesn’t exist inside the brain so why does it overlay and seem to encompass such great distances if it’s all in your head?
This is part of the interface and how the mind has evolved the ability to process information. The mind produces a virtualization of space and projects an overlay to approximate the space as perceived by sensory constraints. We never see true space as we have only ever observed the approximation of space through virtualization. And this is true for everything that you perceive. It is all an approximation and interpretation of information gathered by limited senses.
—Ian Wilson
Immersion Into the Human Experience
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This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real.
Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at
what you thought was your grief.
—Rumi
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