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maha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 03:45 PM
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64. To which delusion do you refer?
The quantum physics guys say that linear time is a kind of delusion. The way we perceive "reality," the world of shapes and space, furniture and people and parking lots, is all just particles of stuff in space. We see furniture and people and parking lots because our brains are wired to see furniture and people and parking lots. If our brains were re-wired, where would the stuff go? And what might be there that our brains can't process? Indeed, self-identity is a kind of delusion; consciousness is a by-product of brain wave and does not abide in any one spot.

It's all smoke and mirrors, son. Ain't it grand?
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