I was impressed with your succinct yet illuminating reply on Quora to my question regarding Lawrence Krauss’s book and the concept of nothing. I left a comment. In the event you might be interested and missed it, please find it below:

“Thank you. My thoughts from your keyboard. My default (Sherlock Holmes) answer to this seemingly unanswerable ontological ‘ultimate mystery’ is that that which constitutes the fundamental basis of existence which cannot be further sublated exists within a logic that cannot be comprehended by the human intellect. But since the question must have an answer, then it must lie elsewhere.

“How does one learn to ride a bicycle? By studying the aerodynamic principles of the proposition beforehand? Or rather, by mounting, falling, trying again until one ultimately…understands. It is an empirical endeavor, not an intellectual one. Perhaps what mystics of many religious and philosophical traditions have told us from time immemorial is correct.

“I personally believe that what the Upanishads relate is true. That is, that the fundamental basis of existence is undifferentiated consciousness (“Brahman”) that manifests not unlike a Rubik’s cube, constantly changing its faces to form myriad outward patterns while all the while retaining its essential integrity as one. We (the illusory manifestations of consciousness) came to forget our true nature of eternally, timelessly existing consciousness and came to identify with the illusion of dualism and separateness (“maya”) which is the source of all anxiety “And they ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil [dualism] and saw that they were naked [mortal] and were sore afraid.” The metaphorical Rubik’s cube changes its patterns in accordance with a metaphorical algorithm called “karma” (work, causality).

“I can comprehend no more logical explanation. How can primal consciousness exist without an antecedent cause? Such logic is beyond intellectual comprehension. Like a kiss or a hug or the taste of beer, it must be experienced to be understood.”

Thank you. I intend to read at your blog henceforth as time permits.

Bob Schott

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WHAT WE MISSED ABOUT THE ROBOT REVOLUTION @ Science Ain't So Bad

WHAT WE MISSED ABOUT THE ROBOT REVOLUTION @ Science Ain't So Bad

WHAT WE MISSED ABOUT THE ROBOT REVOLUTION @ Science Ain't So Bad

WHAT WE MISSED ABOUT THE ROBOT REVOLUTION @ Science Ain't So Bad