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@OortCloudAtlas’s nonduality explainer, and I’m a really tough crowd 

:http://deconstructingyourself.com/nonduality
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Replying to @Kalieezchild @OortCloudAtlas
Re: the part about perception being like video cameras, is it possible that this model doesn't work at all?
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Replying to @ShibumiKiDo @OortCloudAtlas
Phenomenologically, it makes sense to me to say there is a lens, a detector, transmission, and assembly. That’s pretty much the camera form.
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Replying to @Kalieezchild @OortCloudAtlas
Except in that Cartesian theater formulation, you generate a Homunculus, which leads to another Homunculus inside that Homunculus . . .
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Replying to @ShibumiKiDo @OortCloudAtlas
I think you just have perception with various levels of identification with it. I don’t see where you need the mini me inside.
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Replying to @Kalieezchild @OortCloudAtlas
Well, the mini-me would be that agency of perception or identification, however you conceive it (maybe not a homunculus, maybe Atman)
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Replying to @ShibumiKiDo @OortCloudAtlas
I map Atman to raw awareness, so it wouldn’t be that. However, I believe we have an internal representation. I don’t see why it’s a problem.
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Replying to @Kalieezchild @OortCloudAtlas
Who views the internal representation? (Who is the internal one, or at least the one who isn't external?)
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Replying to @ShibumiKiDo @Kalieezchild
The article is not concerned with the problem of consciousness, but instead with explaining how an experience can be nondual.
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In short: when perception occurs without the involvement of the brain regions involved in creating the sense of self, then it feels nondual
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This is of course different than saying that it’s actually nondual in some kind of absolute sense.
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And, as I said, it entire skips over the problem of consciousness. Which, btw, the traditional explanation doesn’t solve at all either.
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