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by hv23 3710 days ago
Some of the ideas in here echo Huxley's theories of mind as expressed in The Doors of Perception — that of the mind as a "filter" for true reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_at_Large

"Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful. According to such a theory, each one of us is potentially Mind at Large."

Cursory reading of texts in timeless traditions like Zen, Advaita Vedanta, Hinduism, and other mystic philosophical systems will reveal similar concepts — as will self-inquiry.

That we're beginning to approach a scientific/mathematical explanation of these metaphysical principles is no surprise to me.