Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
Erwin SchrodingerRead
Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.
Interpretation
Consciousness is a unique experience that cannot be divided into multiple instances.
This quote by Erwin SchrΓΆdinger emphasizes the concept of consciousness as an individual and singular phenomenon. It suggests that while there are many beings that possess consciousness, each person's experience of it is unique and cannot be generalized or quantified as plural; it underscores the profound complexity and individuality of personal awareness.
In practice
In a discussion about the nature of reality, one might use this quote to illustrate the uniqueness of individual experiences.
Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.
There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.
My continent knows more about me than I do myself.
This England never did, nor never shall, _x000D_ _x000D_ Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
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