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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