Hats theory does not imply that Nothing Matters™ or that Everything is the Same™. Something can matter very much within its sphere, and be a complete non-issue from another POV.
Whether everything is relative, or whether any one hat is The One True Hat, is not even the point. It doesn't matter. What you do know is that Homo Sapiens are evolved to try to interpret their body sensations in whatever way will help them survive and reproduce.
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There is no rational agent apart from this monkey brain, and the fact that anyone thinks that there is, goes to show just how good our brains are at getting us to believe that what we think about our sensations is what they actually are.
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If you feel like you are a rational agent apart from your brain that is seeing and interpreting the world from a privileged position - even if you don't think of it explicitly within a dualist framework - you're not actually seeing your sensations clearly.
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Because you still think that the physical sensation of certainty is anything other than a physical sensation - one that evolution took billions of years to create precisely for the purpose of fooling you into surviving and reproducing.
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Your brain doesn't work for you, it works for your genome. And it created you for one purpose: to help this organism's genes replicate.
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As it turns out, you're more effective at helping your genome replicate when you believe that you're running the show and don't ask any questions. So that's what evolution got you to do.
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When you clearly see what your sensations are actually like - sans your interpretations of them - it become obvious that you've been played for a fool.
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And when you see your sensations clearly and then immediately interpret them as the Ultimate Truth or One Mind or Non-Dual Light, then you've lost the plot.
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You want to get good at seeing sensations as clearly as possible as often as possible - and eventually at trying on different hats, without forgetting that the comfortable sensation of wearing the hat isn't the same as the story you tell about how comfy/great/true the hat is.
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