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- unpack - key insight - with the postulate of consciousness as the foundation, it makes sense that this is - an inner reality made of qualia - and an outer reality made of shareable symbols we call matter - Federico Faggin
- question - about Federico Faggin's ideas - in what way is matter a symbol?
- adjacency - poverty mentality - I am the universe who wants to know itself
question - in what way is matter a symbol?
- Matter is a symbol in the sense that it
- we describe reality using language, both
- ordinary words as well as
- mathematics
- It is those symbolic descriptions that DIRECT US to jump from one phenomena to another related phenomena.
- After all, WHO is the knower of the symbolic descriptions?
- WHAT is it that knows? Is it not, as FF points out, the universe itself
- as expressed uniquely through all the MEs of the world, that knows?
- Hence, the true nature of all authentic spiritual practices is that
- the reality outside of us is intrinsically the same as
- the reality within us
- our lebenswelt of qualia