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4.3 - All Of This

A train is out of control and is heading straight towards five railway workers who will be killed by this train if it is not diverted to another track.

On the other track, however, there is - surprisingly - a child, probably because it likes trains. You are standing at the switch and you must now decide whether the five railway workers should be allowed to survive or whether this child should survive. Who should die and who should continue to live?

How will you decide?

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Then stimuli are transmitted from your brain to your muscles, and yeah :> that's how you act. This has been the classical notion of free will. However, in the 1970s, neurologists were able to demonstrate through the "Libet experiment" that several hundred milliseconds before your decision, your body initiated the corresponding bio-chemical processes. So basically:

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As if your body knows about your decision even before you become aware of it yourself.

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Meanwhile, there are more recent experiments, such as the one by "John-Dylan Haynes" at the Max Planck Institute in 2008, which show that this temporal gap can even be up to seven seconds.

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There is something that makes decisions, and "something" makes you believe you were the one who made the decision, yet you never made that decision and that "something" is 

not > You <.

Does free will even exist then? Is free will just an illusion? In the moment I think I made a decision, was that decision actually made by my body?

You surely recognize the problem here: In court, one could argue not being able to take responsibility for their actions at all. That would be totally unthinkable! Therefore, a solution had to be found for this kind of problem - and pronto! - which scientists (and lawyers, I assume?) actually provided.

They provided an answer to the problem that would challenge the absence of free will.

However, before that, I would like to make you familiar with some further thoughts on this matter, because, you probably guessed it-> it will not be easy for us again...

(but the fact that you made it this far must mean that you are apparently well-prepared - and I am incredibly proud of you)!

At least one thing I want to say in advance; I am trying to make it as easy for you as possible. There is free will. I want to show it to you, but it will not be something you will welcome with open arms.

Do you remember when I wrote in the preface:

"You will encounter feelings; some of them: feelings of rejection... endure them. Observe them very closely."

That is this part. Say goodbye to the classical idea of free will. What comes next will test your trust in me, with everything you know.

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...By the way, I would try to derail the train by forcing the switch to a kind of middle position. Trains derail all the time at faulty switches. The attempt is at least worth it and the train driver will surely only get a bump. Sorry train driver! Sorry dear passengers! Only for your own good.

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Now, let's get back on track with to the topic and some further thoughts on this. We will take a little excursion into environmental protection.


NATURE - O^O



Must, can, and above all ~ wants ~ climate change be stopped or is it inevitable? Can humans perhaps not be blamed for their "human" behavior and does "un"human behavior automatically mean something "bad"?

✨huh?

- let me explain ^^

If - and because - man is a piece of nature ("part of the universe, as the cosmologist would say"), then all seemingly contrary behavior to nature is not contrary to nature at all, and man is 100% natural in his behavior.

Are humans therefore a mechanism of nature to transport, for example, CO2 trapped in the ground back into the Earth's atmosphere? High concentrations of CO2 have existed (and constantly exist) on Earth, both before and after humans.

So, planet Earth cleanses itself from the creation of "man," like the self-cleaning program of a typical household machine. Thus, all behavior could be an aspect of nature, completely natural and of natural origin, which inherently has its natural order, its quite "natural correctness."

Is human behavior therefore not "human," but "natural" and thus "un"human? Therefore, all behavior would be "good" because it is in line with nature. Thus, you would bear no guilt.

Of course, protesting to take countermeasures to return to normality is also natural. Just so we're clear here! Nature is also very important to me and a naturally good life.

However, we should never forget that eternal growth is not in line with nature, where vanity is omnipresent. Man is and should remain a natural being, striving for self-preservation, no question about that. However, one day the time of humans will end... that is certain. Perhaps we are already experiencing this beginning of the end? That what it means when everywhere it is said "we live in special times."

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So actually, just to cut it short, I wonder if we truly what you think you are is or if we are be more like a kind of "vessel" or a kind of "mouthpiece" for a force lying outside himself, which one may well call nature?

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In my opinion, Logos, the Ratio, the path of logical conclusion, which is the core of every philosophy - is the only way to real truth, Greek: "Gnosis." Rene Descartes, whom we have already met in "Chapter 2.3 - Self-dissolution," was such a philosopher who dedicated himself to this quest for truth.

Through logical deduction, Descartes methodically proved that one undeniably exists. The fact that one thinks must be a condition for one's own existence because one cannot not exist when thinking. He formulated his famous statement: "I think! Therefore I am!" (Latin: "Cogito, ergo sum"). 

So, and since then almost everyone assumes now that it is YOU who is thinking here. After all, it is oneself who would be practicing active, that is, self-determined thinking because one exists and thinks and so on and so forth, right? 

Well...

There is nothing wrong with Descartes' quintessence, that one undoubtedly exists, but his derivation, that is, his method for formulating this knowledge, was ...sloppy.

Because as it may turn out later, this conclusion was not 100% flawless. Friedrich Nietzsche, a researcher of philosophy, discovered an important weakness in it. How does Descartes know that it is actually he himself who is thinking here and not perhaps instead "something" is thinking? Sounds a bit spooky, doesn't it? Could it be possible that here, at this moment, it is not +you+ who is thinking, but rather ~something~ is thinking?

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Nietzsche also asked about true gain in knowledge and questions the condition linked to Descartes, that you yourself is, who is thinking here. A very clever mind, this Nietzsche!

If we were masters of our thoughts, we would know what the next thought will be. Since we cannot know that, let alone what the thought after that will be, we must assume that in the search for TRUE knowledge, not even thinking comes from the Self...

According to Friedrich Nietzsche, it was clear that the mere assumption that the thought process originates from the Self is flawed. Therefore, I claim that thinking is not a practice of the Self. However, thinking does happen, that is still beyond question, but this thinking occurs outside of your Self. The Self, one's own truth (that one exists), remains free from any illusion because one's own existence has been rightfully proven (although methodically ... sloppy, Descartes). So, I claim that we actually do not think on our own, but "something" thinks instead. And we can often observe this thought process, as thoughts come and go, or as it is metaphorically said: "it's rattling in the thought factory [brain]."

The pure assumption that "you think on your own" is not a secure knowledge.

During the above mentioned discussion on nature and climate change, I wondered if humans are truly masters of themselves, or if they are more like a kind of "vessel," or a kind of "mouthpiece" for a force lying outside themselves, which one might also call nature.

So, are we merely under the illusion that we can think independently?

And if it is not yourself thinking here, but rather something "outside of your Self" is thinking, what can "the Self" possibly be then? What in the world remains to be examined as the Self when we know that the Self cannot be found outside of ourselves?

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...✨huh?

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You may remember that in "Chapter 2.2 - The Unnameable / Derivation" and "Chapter 2.3 - Self-Dissolution / Conclusion," we learned that the Self has been revealed as immovable, almost unlocatable. The Self, which has no extension in any direction and transcends our understanding of - existence -, still exists without any doubt. Since René Descartes' "Cogito Ergo Sum," we know this, and I claim that your awareness of yourself is attributable to the self-experiencing universe, which experiences itself through ~YOU~ in this very moment.

You are the self-experiencing universe.

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"...But wait a minute... what you're saying implies that if the Self is "nothing," then nothing exists, say, to perceive this coffee cup here! If the Self is "nothing," where am I in all of this? What about the perception of thinking and this whole 'self-experiencing universe' and all?"

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And there is one more thing...

Another layer, even deeper if you will, that we have only implicitly mentioned up to this point. You recall from chapter 2.3: "So you are and at the same time..."

"the Unspeakable

(because it eludes conceptualization)

< = >

and all of this here

(the self-experiencing universe)"

So we are delving even deeper into the rabbit hole, and I will show you a new perspective on things. With this knowledge, we will explore Free Will, but it is important first that you internalize All Of This well.

There is a truth...

...so profound that it is understood by hardly any of the over seven billion people on this ~ blue pearl ~ here. Ironically, "hidden in plain sight" - in view of the obvious - this world conceals a brutally difficult-to-grasp truth. A truth that, with 99 percent certainty, has been withheld from 99 percent of the world's population - so far - and that, incidentally, may represent quite a generous estimate. This truth is about: ~YOU~ 

It concerns not only you, society as a whole, but also humanity as a whole. It is - quite simply put - a tragedy that this truth is of a fundamental nature, of importance, not an abstract, philosophical truth that one likes to read about but can safely ignore, but I am talking about a truth that directly concerns you. This is what I refer to in the preface as the most advanced, profound, most important, and at the same time the most challenging concept that I have discovered on my journeys of personal development. 

Not only has (practically) all of humanity lost sight of this truth, no, turning away from this truth has directly and/or indirectly led to suffering for all in general and it is my firm believe that everything could be so much easier if we knew about this truth. We encounter it [truth] literally anew in every moment. It is so obvious and omnipresent that it almost hurts how difficult it is for one to communicate something [... actually quite simple, really obvious!] like this with a person. A bit like trying to communicate higher dimensions. 

THE SELF

I can understand the difficulties one might have in imagining higher dimensions, especially since it can be thought of in many different ways. The definition is vague. The spiritual person who uses the word "dimension," for example, thinks of a world that seems strange to them. Physicists who use the word dimension think of a vector in space. Yet both are two completely different things. Therefore, I do not use the term dimension in the sense of a strange world or a vector in space. I rather imagine a kind of scale. Atoms forming cells forming bodies forming planets forming stars forming galaxies. And now imagine being such an atom. You would experience the world as you would as an atom. You would observe all the atoms around you, how they might look like stars due to the enormous distances between the atoms. Your world would behave in a very specific way, and suddenly I would make you grow to a new scale. To the normal size that you are now. As an atom, you wouldn't recognize the world! You might even suspect that you have suddenly stranded in a foreign universe with completely new laws of physics and everything. In fact, you exist in the same universe as just before - only the scale has changed. 

When investigating the Self, we rid ourselves of all things that the Self cannot be. The world that then opens up to you will be a completely strange one. It will completely discard your previous view of the world. And then you will see and understand what I mean when I say that it [The Truth] - hidden in plain sight - has always been right in front of you. 

Do you remember? In chapter 2.2 we had established that there is this outer and this inner world. This coffee cup here, for example, belongs to this outer world; and although it initially sounds contradictory, even things inside your body are to be attributed to this outer world, at least from your own point of view. Thoughts, feelings, even perception - everything. All these things take place outside of a Self because the Self is nowhere to be found in these things. We have apparently created a separation that suggests the idea of an "outside" and an "inside." 

However, the revelation that the Self turns out to be "nothing" is accompanied by some very interesting characteristics. The Self, which turns out to be unplaceable, almost incomprehensible, can be well compared to a "zero-dimensional point." What if I tell you that there is no longer any distinction between a zero-dimensional point and all of this? What if with the dissolution of the Self, as something unfindable, the distinction between the inner and outer worlds is illusory? 

Was all this up to now just plain nonsense? Of course, it was not just plain nonsense. What I am trying to communicate is nothing less than convincing you that even though you can be so different, we all have this one thing in common. That in truth, you are indistinguishable from the rest of the world, from "Everything that is." Let me show you how. 

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As a zero-dimensional point has no length, width or depth, it will be indistinguishable from the rest of the world. 

Take a sheet of paper into your hand and you will "see" what cannot be seen. There are all sorts of zero-dimensional points on the sheet of paper. They are invisible and unfindable, without question, but it will be almost impossible to miss them if you were to try to hit one. 

An ordinary line consists of infinitely many zero-dimensional points. These zero-dimensional points literally become the line, even though we cannot directly perceive them. Unbelievable, right? That something so simple transcends our everyday understanding of existence right before our eyes... 

If you scribble on a sheet of paper, did you thereby touch these zero-dimensional points in any way? You probably already have an idea where I am going with this... 

If you cut up, burn, destroy the sheet of paper, were the zero-dimensional points burned, cut up, destroyed as well? Here you would have to answer: No, because just like the idea of numbers cannot be cut up and destroyed, neither can zero-dimensional points be cut up and destroyed, thus our zero-dimensional point remains preserved even when the tangible material medium has been destroyed. (I think that's how considerations about an immortal soul came about at some point... but don't ask me...) 

A zero-dimensional point eludes the change of time, i.e., impermanence. Everything in the universe ages and passes away. Your body ages. Possibly even your soul (where it is said there are young and "old souls"). But you are not your body, nor this soul, even if you are made to believe so. What you are is timeless and spaceless. Such is the nature of a zero-dimensional point. sry. But not sry.

Such a zero-dimensional point is literally and per definition unlimited, because another very interesting property of such a zero-dimensional point is, and something truly MAGICAL arises here in my opinion, that with the resolution of this point as something indistinguishable from the sheet, the perception around it also dissolves. You remember from "Chapter 2.2 - The Unnameable / Derivation" that perception means,

"to take something for true, which takes place externally"

What happens here behaves analogously to what happens when you multiply by the number zero. Every multiplication by the number zero results in zero. And so it is with our perception in our analogy with the zero-dimensional point, that is, our unfindable self.

Literally and actually every time the "classic understanding of perception" collapses because the boundaries between the self and the rest of the world blur. [This is quite wild and requires a lot... uh, self-awareness].

~ how should I explain that? Uhm...

What you are seeing now, right in this moment, that is yourself. The universe becoming aware of itself through itself ~ now in this very moment ~ and I suspect everyone is somewhat correct when they say, "Everything is One." Now hopefully you understand why it is and how this can be derived...

There is nothing left but to acknowledge that this separation between "You" and "All Of This" is an illusion, indeed a tragedy, as we are truly indistinguishable from "All Of This."

In truth, there is no separation from "All Of This" because in reality we are "nothing," which would otherwise necessitate such a separation.

That the Self reveals itself as indistinguishable from the rest of the world emphasizes that wherever you look... you are constantly encountering yourself... Which only makes sense if one understands oneself as the self-experiencing universe, which is ~ in this very moment ~ looking at itself through itself. The only thing that has been veiled from you all this time separates you from what you have always been, even though, along with everything you know, it has always been right in front of you - hidden in plain sight.

The mutual infliction of suffering would become obsolete based on this knowledge. As a collective, one would reach a state known in Buddhist tradition as "Bodhisattva."

Quote: "Bodhisattva (Sanskrit, m., बोधिसत्त्व bodhisattva; from bodhi 'enlightenment' or 'awakening' and sattva 'being', 'essence', Pali bodhisatta) means 'enlightened being.' In Mahayana Buddhism, Bodhisattvas are described as beings striving for the highest knowledge who seek or realize 'Buddhahood' through the path of 'perfection of virtues' (Sanskrit paramita) in order to use it for the salvation of all living beings. This initial motivation is called 'enlightened mind' (bodhicitta). Practitioners of various Mahayana traditions recite Bodhisattva vows, thereby expressing their intention to follow this path themselves."

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"...once you have understood it, you will see it always and everywhere"

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However, what will be truly difficult to master is noticing each time the claims and necessities of an "I" will reappear, re-establishing a separation from "All that is." I interpret this separation from "All that is," this ego, as the origin of all the evil in this world.

What one actually has to do here to remain in truth and not fall back into the state of lies is to regain this dissolution of perception in Being and the complete surrender as Being. What does something like this look like? You must internalize and practice with radical self-honesty, paired with consistent and absolute dedication, the disappointment ("disillusionment") over the false construct about yourself and your life.

It is our birthright and in a way also our duty to fully recognize ourselves in order to properly assess our place and our worth in the world. But the disappointment over the lie construct about yourself is something that hardly anyone is willing to live. It is like letting go of something dear and precious. The self-deception. Because the voice in your head will come up with a thousand really (yes, really!) good reasons to keep you away from the truth, unaware of the benefits that come with self-realization.

And then there is also the fact that there is no Free Will anymore in the classical sense, and this has been definitively proven since the "Libet experiments" from the 1970s. The will happens, as we know, before the psyche feels the need to transfer to us with conscience, that it is oneself who makes the decisions, but in truth this chain of bio-chemical processes takes place outside of the Self. We are under the illusion that we have made our decisions ourselves.

The classical Free Will is an illusion

...However, because this is not sustainable for legal reasons, scientists (and lawyers, I assume?) have agreed to acknowledge that while there is no Free Will, there is instead a "Free Unwill." This form of Free Will is not what most people have imagined as Free Will. This Free Will is the VETO. About 50 milliseconds before carrying out any action, there is a brief period in which our moral values and ideals take over the decision not to perform an action.

"Libet further speculated that the veto itself is not initiated unconsciously, but takes place directly at a conscious level. However, he did not base this assumption on experimental findings. Instead, he referred to alternative assumptions leading to unsatisfactory conclusions regarding free will. Referring to the prohibitive formulation of many social rules ("Thou shalt not..."), he believed that his speculation restored human moral responsibility." - Wikipedia, Libet Experiment

So if you think you have made your own decision, then once again, something has played a trick on you, according to your subconscious; something that is certainly not your Self. There are only very few moments when we are completely free. At least then, when we are always inclined to deny, sometimes even towards denial itself, we are truly free from coercion. 99.9% of the over seven billion people on this planet are prisoners of this illusion 99.9% of their time. 99.9% of the over seven billion people on this planet are unfree and unconscious 99.9% of their time. And incidentally, this may well be a quite generous estimate.

No one is more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

Saying no as the ultimate concept of freedom. Absolute renunciation. It will be easier when we understand that the Self is "Nothing" and therefore nothing needs to be denied in order to be free. It reminds me of Siddhartha Gautama as Buddha and his detachment from all worldly things. I suspect that this is one reason why he has been continuously called the Enlightened One for over 2,500 years.

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