I love science deeply *because* of its ability to transcend solipsistic and self-oriented, egotistical perspectives. But this creates the opposite response to "hail science" - https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1270889248040747009?s=19 … - it makes science the vicegerent of being. It's "hail being!"
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This is much clearer in the eastern tradition, where the conflicts between the various versions of advaita and dvaara, as well as Buddhist voidism, arose out of different ways of trying to resolve this. It is notable that the doctrine of Maya is a specific consequence of trying.
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Maya is a close cousin of solipsism and generally posited as something to be rejected, in world-negation/being-affirmation (or void-affirmation on the Buddhist side) in the advaita versions. The place I land is what might be called ironic-Maya-acceptance. Blue-pillism.
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I think we diverge on how much we’re willing to accept based on 3 things: a) ‘me’ is not as unstable as ‘not me’ b) ‘not-me’ is weirdly legible to ‘me’ b) there seem to be parts of ‘not-me’ that suspiciously mirror ‘me’ (as evidenced by joint attention — I use a different term)
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