It’s time for a Sunday Spiritual, where we throw some stuff into the mix that the mind can’t really handle, and see what happens.
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In yesterday's Daily Reminder—the nattily-titled “It’s not what happens, it’s how you feel about it”—I floated the notion that “Your experience of The thing” is an entirely separate prospect from “The thing” itself.
Giles P Croft
The truly crazy thing is (and I promise, I will stop using the word “thing” very shortly 🤪), we don’t actually know for sure what “The thing” even is!!
Because we’ll never get to experience it directly, even though it looks like we do.
I mean, I’m sat here, typing on this keyboard and looking at this computer screen and it really looks like I’ve got a total handle on what they are – like I’m experiencing them directly.
And yet at the same time, I’m not. I can’t be.
All I get is this internally-generated, Thought-created facsimile of “reality” that’s being pieced together, moment by moment, as the psycho-spiritual entity that is Giles continually answers the question,
🧠🤖: “What must be “true” for me to be receiving this particular set of data?”
Take something as straightforward as the keyboard, for instance.