Tao Te Ching (Re: Consciousness?)
M Suresh
msuresh at INDIA.TI.COM
Wed Jul 17 19:20:08 CDT 1996
Ian Goddard wrote:
> IAN: We can solve this as follows:
>
> Show me a universe free from a nervous system. You cannot.
>
> Show me a nervous system free from an external universe. You cannot.
>
> Logic therefore dictates that we cannot establish a division between
> A) a nervous system and B) not-nervous system -- i.e., an external
> area. Thus the two are not-two. Nervous system and not-nervous
> system are necessary features of one another, such that the
> external universe is a part of a nervous system, thus the
> whole universe is 100% nervous system.
I found something similiar in Chapter 2 of Tao Te Ching, namely:
"Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each
other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each
other. Before and after follow each other."
regards,
Suresh.
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