LuckyR wrote: ↑December 23rd, 2018, 4:35 am
Atla wrote: ↑December 23rd, 2018, 2:52 am
99%+ of the posts written here are using dualistic/pluralistic thinking, while the other major form of human thinking, nondual thinking, gets less than 1%. Most posters here don't even know that there is another one.
Unfortunately, most or all of Western philosophy is dualistic/pluralistic, and is therefore inherently incapable of answering the big questions (about consciousness, and who or what we are etc). And it's also incompatible with modern science.
But it has a lot of practical value for everyday life, and all things considered, that's more important.
Please explain the superiority of non dualstic thinking as pertains to modern science, when compared to dualistic thinking.
Nondual thinking assumes that, ontologically speaking, no separations, divisions exist in reality. All separations, divisions are made up.
The scientific process has discovered no actual separations, divisions either so far. And for example in QM we have direct evidence that separateness is just a cognitive illusion. It is we who automatically divide reality into parts, categories, separate objects, realms etc., which is most of the time useful, even necessary, but we should also keep in mind that actually there are no separate things.
Likewise, Western philosophy can for example spend hundreds or thousands of years trying to figure out how consciousness/the world of the mind, and matter/the world of the physical, come together. Even though this question makes no sense, since these "two" are one and the same, there aren't two at all. Or they can obsess about what the "I" is, even though the I is also continuous with everything else, it's in a sense illusory.