Buddhist quantum theory?

To measure is an act of consciousness by which it compares various extended things, ultimately, with itself. By analogy, using a tape measure a piece of timber is compared with units of measure. No matter how small we cut the timber it can be measured. Even down to a milligram of fiber, we can still measure the timber.

In order to measure anything, the units of measure must always be finer than what is measured. Moreover, as the measure becomes increasingly smaller it approaches, also, the range of consciousness which can be thought of as zero. Thus, we approach a limit to our measure where the measure, so to speak, instantly disappears into the immeasurable, that is, consciousness itself, or the same, pure Mind. This also means that consciousness has no actual dependence on measurement or the things measured. It transcends all measurement, in other words.

But now we ask, can consciousness or mind know itself, directly? Well, in a way yesbut it cannot measure itself which implies a distinction between itself and something measured or determinate. In truth, we are the very immediacy of consciousness or absolute Mind. What keeps us, as pure consciousness, from knowing our self, directly, is the confusion of a mind-phenomenalization (something to be measured) with pure consciousness or Mind, itself. More to the point, this implies that, out of habit, we expect consciousness, itself, to be something measurable. It is not.

Switching gears, what seems to be happening these days in Quantum physics is the very notion of absolute measure is falling by the wayside because some physicists are coming to the conclusion, in so many words, that the universe is Mind-only (science is becoming Buddhist!) which means it exists yet does not actually exist (this is the notion of illusion or my). The implications of this are far reaching.


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