No "seeming" relative in claims that are totally contradictory. That's a red herring.
(Non)continuity of the existence of you after the death of the body is nothing if not a metaphysical claim (under our current understanding of physics, at any rate).
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Yes, I'm more interested in the entailments than the core.
Descartes realizes cogito ergo sum. (Can be shortened to "sum" and achieve the same point, but I digress.)
Then he goes out and tries to construct an entire metaphysics. It seems to me like these are not equally true.
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In the same sense I would say realizing nirvana or advaita or moksha or whatever else can be realized, whether they're different or equal...
It gives you an insight that may be utterly reconfigurative of your relationship with experience itself. But it's not a universal proof.
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Mmh, this seems right. I am sort of struggling with this experientially at the moment.
Sort of partly aware, but not in any consistent or stable way. It flashes on and off, but when it's off, it's really off.
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