Philosophy

The you that you do not know.

The reality is the Mind dreaming.

The mind of the other is always enigmatic.

There is no free will.

There is no clear line between right and wrong.

Death is negative only when you think about the end of all the positive possibilities. Death if accepted as neutral is neither positive nor negative.

(Dreams tell us how our minds can manipulate the information.

Before studying philosophy you are not serious. While you are studying philosophy, you are serious. When you have studied the philosophy , you will be no more serious.

Vedanta is idealist and believes in non-duality.

Zen is practical and says it's neither one nor two. It can be interconnected or even shunya.)

- Book,What does it all mean (Thomas Nagel)

There are no answers just some fascinating insights.

Consciousness is what we experience:

The five senses. 

Internal drives like hunger, thirst, sleepiness, and tiredness ensure we take care of ourselves and survive.

Melancholic longings

Daydreaming and zoning out.

Self-reflection, self-awareness, and metaconsciousness.

Loss of self through meditation, near-death experience, or psychedelics.

Do you and I experience life in the same way? Do we share the same reality? The short answer is, no.

We live in our own limited perception box.

(We can live in one world at a time and the quality of our thoughts determines the quality of the world we live in.)

Some people experience face blindness and are unable to recognize someone they've met, while others are super-recognizers, never forgetting a face. Some of us have incredibly vivid imaginations, while others can't picture anything at all. Most of us have an inner voice, and a near-constant internal monologue, but not everybody does. Something that tastes unbearably spicy to you might taste delicious to someone else.

That might sound depressing, that we live our entire lives in our own little boxes, experiencing a different reality from everyone else.

You can rewire your brain thanks to something called neuroplasticity.

But we're not powerless. We can expand our box in all kinds of ways, through reading books and watching movies, for example, to get a better understanding of other people's experiences. Our boxes and our brains are malleable. And by changing our brains, we can also change our realities.

-Book, Then I am itself the world by Christof Koch.

How Do You Know What You Think You Know?

Appearance vs Reality.

Idealism vs Realism:

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Believe it or not, this question gets to the heart of the debate between idealism and realism, one of the major themes in the problems of philosophy. 

Idealism argues that the world exists only in our minds. According to this view, there is no independent, physical reality beyond your perceptions. As Berkeley famously put it, to be is to be perceived.  After all, you only ever experience your own perceptions, how can you be sure there's anything beyond them?

Despite acknowledging the difficulty of disproving idealism, Russell ultimately argues for a form of realism. He suggests that it's more reasonable to believe in a physical world that exists independently of our minds. This external reality causes our perceptions but isn't identical to them.

Philosophy doesn't necessarily provide definitive answers. Instead, its value lies in the questions it raises and the ways of thinking it cultivates. When you grapple with philosophical problems, you develop critical thinking skills that apply to all areas of life.

-Book, The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

यस्तो हुनुपर्थ्यो,

उस्तो हुनुपर्थ्यो ।

भन्नेहरुलाई सोध्न मन लाग्छ ,

"तपाईंको विचारमा खास जून कतिवटा र तारा कतिवटा हुनुपर्थ्यो।"

-दोस्ती रेग्मी