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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Dec 2020

      But theoretically you can identify with it even further until you identify with the entire universe. To explain the woo here a bit identifying with the universe isn't an infinite task. It's bounded the same way a VR game is bounded.

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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Dec 2020

      A VR game can create psuedo-infinity but it's limited to representing that 'reality' in 5million pixel frames. That number is further reduced and compressed into a few signals that arise in consciousness.

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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Dec 2020

      To identify with the universe then is to just identify with everything in your awareness at every moment.

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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Dec 2020

      What makes this easy is that everything that arises in awareness is by definition part of "you". By just identifying with yourself you identify with your awareness which is the highest resolution snapshot of the universe you ever get.

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    5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Dec 2020

      Try this experiment. It's something common in meditation practices. Just "note" the sensations that arise in every moment. It might be something really slow like "In that last 1 second I had a sensation of coolness on my arm, then a blink, then a bad event at work."

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    6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Dec 2020

      See how even though these sensations are discrete, they feel like "one" thing, they have almost unlimited resolution. e.g. the volume of data in a feeling of coolness is the same volume of data in "bad event at work".

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    7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Dec 2020

      If you've ever exited a Flow state you've felt something similar. You see that entire snapshot of you in the zone as a single discrete snapshot happening across instant time. The reason flow states stand out is b/c they are *far* more detailed than regular daily sensations.

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    8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Dec 2020

      It's also possible to feel very complex emotions like "My terrible childhood." or "My bad parents and all the time they XYZ." as singular discrete sensations.

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      (* btw the reason they aren't *pointers* is because remembering the past is the same thing as recreating it.)

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    10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Dec 2020

      The difference between these complex sensations and more simpler ones like "in-breath" or "out-breath" or "heat on arm" is because these simpler ones are more compressible even though they technically occupy the same infinite canvas output space.

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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Dec 2020

      So sitting in a room and meditating can allow you to be the universe. You don't have to actually understand all of the universe just like you don't have to understand how your cells or nervous systems work to feel like your body.

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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Dec 2020

          One interesting side effect of identifying with all the contents of your awareness is that unlike the gravity fight where you identify as earth => sun => galaxy to move the locus of the new enemy, at universal identification there are no more enemies b/c your enemies are you.

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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Dec 2020

          TPR: if I move all my stat points into empathy (including sanity), do I become everything?

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          - -; kinda scared to scroll up to see wtf I just wrote i'm just going to click tweet all.

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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Dec 2020

          addendum thought: "naming" has the ability to compress an infinity of meaning into one thing. They're useful when you "name" something you've experienced(for recall) but names are useless when borrowed externally. It's an empty pointer that recalls nothing.

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