Robin RetallickAre we living in a simulation?The task of a simulation engine in presenting a plausible reality, is not the maintenance of a vast, virtual, physical cosmos, because…Jun 27Jun 27
Robin RetallickCan I suggest that the ablility we all have to create our own versions of reality, is a fundamental…1. You are, we are, an always-connected extension of the time-less/space-less Collective Consciousness.Jun 26Jun 26
Robin RetallickFor once, we are almost totally in-synch – until the last paragraph which contains two opposing…Of course, science plays its part .. and .. Once you have stripped away all illusions, what remains must be real.Jun 11Jun 11
Robin RetallickYour logic is good, right up to the point where you declare "God" to exist.What if the fundamental truth of our existence is ... that what we choose to believe and expect becomes the reality we experience. …Jun 41Jun 41
Robin RetallickHi Deepak – I was with you on your first advanced meditation retreat in Goa. Some thoughts.“.. mind soul, memory, personality, thoughts, feelings, etc. — are all experiences in consciousness.”May 14May 14
Robin RetallickSaurabh - It matters not how we arrive at the idea that we might be in a simulation.And that list includes everything we know – EVERYTHING – for sure things like computers and bits and bytes, but also must necessarily…May 82May 82
Robin RetallickHere's another kicker.The world was not here before 'I' got here, and will not survive 'I's exit, because it never was "here", because there is no "here". It…May 21May 21
Robin RetallickIn approaching this subject, I suggest it's useful to recognize ,that although in this century the…In that context, trying to solve what David Chalmers labelled as "the hard problem", reconciling consciousness with a physical world that's…Apr 30Apr 30
Robin RetallickWHO am I? WHY am I here?Could there ever be a “scientific” answer to those two big questions? Not easily it seems. It requires a major shift in just about…Apr 293Apr 293
Robin RetallickTony, you obviously feel strongly about physicalism.Even our “hard problem" friend David Chalmers, originally a staunch materialist, has come to the belief that “no purely physical theory…Apr 271Apr 271