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Where Is the Illusion? Five levels of seeing through it.
The strange thing about “waking up” is how often it ends with finding a new story to believe completely. We question the news, then the system, then reality itself. Things get interesting when doubt finally reaches our own explanation—and the person so pleased to have figured it all out. A small map of that journey.
The map, naturally, is also suspect, hence an alternative perspective:
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My brother Liuquan has been in the full lotus position since 1100 AD, completely unphased by the fluctuations of the aeon. AGI and aliens could drop tomorrow and he’d still just be vibing in the void. an absolute immutable king. unbothered. in his lane. well-preserved.
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"Applied mathematics can be divided into four types according as to whether the things being modelled are discrete or continuous, and whether their behaviour is discrete or continuous." (Zeeman, Controversy in Science: on the Ideas of Daniel Bernoulli and Rene Thom)
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Einstein–Bergson debate
In the words of Wolfgang Pauli: "It is not only not right, it is not even wrong."
Or as Dōgen Zenji put it: "Time itself is being, and all being is time."
