Are time and space constructs of our minds?

Or are we just self reproducing machines forever mired in the throes of dualism?

Never born. Will never die.
Renting this body named MAYUResh from 1979 - 2029.

Mammalian Anthropomorph Yearning for Ultimate Reality.

In humble memory of Sir Francis Crick (1916-2004), who brought the problem of consciousness out of the woods and into the mainstream. (Disclaimer : Lest someone make any implicit erroneous connections, he was not a nondualist)




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Sunday, June 05, 2005
Soul, Spacetime and the Hidden Observer

In the mid-seventies, as part of an experiment in a psychology class, a blind student had been made hypnotically deaf (the signal to awaken was a touch on the shoulder). When the professor fired a blank pistol near his ear, the student didn’t flinch. On a whim, the professor then asked the blind and now-deaf student that if some part of his consciousness was still listening, to please raise his index finger. To everyone’s surprise, the finger raised. Even more strangely, the student then asked the professor why his finger had raised.

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