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hwhehwhehegwggwtoday at 12:32 PM3 repliesview on HN

Advaita (non duality) is the highest intellectual achievement of the human civilization.

The list itself mentioned is interesting but it focuses on content of consciousness and not consciousness itself. The contents keep changing. Consciousness doesn't.

In other words humans appearing in consciousness discovering consciousness is more interesting than what appears on consciousness like laws of motion.

This is not to say Pythagorean laws are not cool.

It's cool. But it's just a ripple in consciousness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta

Close your eyes. Where does the darkness appear?


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ameliustoday at 1:22 PM

Are you sure? After trying to read into it a bit, I'm getting the feeling that this theory does not solve many practical problems and leaves more questions than answers, e.g.: does my AI (or my GPU) have a consciousness, should it have rights, etc.?

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bananaflagtoday at 12:54 PM

Why Advaita and not Dzogchen?

Just something to think about.

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grantcastoday at 5:58 PM

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