| Interesting. In my understanding, I'm not sure that division and oneness are actually in opposition. The rationale being that the one overall encompassing thing is existence. Existence exists by definition and therefore non-existence cannot exist by definition. It's within that one thing called Existence that I believe divisions are necessary for everything else to emerge.
If everything is differentiated parts of existence, the physical world as we know may be just one of many kinds of worlds. (each world would probably called physical, composed of non orthogonal bits of existence so that interactions remain possible) But division or differentiation is necessary for interaction. Total sameness, homogeneity cannot create space or time or anything else. Even in the physical world, gradients create displacements. I am just not sure about the drivers of such differentiation. I agree that, the concept of my own being exist outside of the physical world for an external observer of our world. But my hunch is that this concept is quite plausibly the concept of a given physical structure of physical bits of existence just like any anything we perceive. The one constant is existence. Where you are absolutely right is that I could also be discarding the fact that we may be interacting unbeknownst to ourselves as part non-physical being. Basically, our physical existence would just be a projection in the physical world of higher dimensional selves. (thinking in the algebraic, tensorial sense). Our physical world could also have been entirely created by a single entity but that entity would still be one of many parts of existence if not merely existence itself so I am really interested in the highest levels. As far as I can personally tell, we don't know whichever takes is true. One seems to be quite plausible wrt our collective experience. Especially since we don't seem to be what is in our imagination. Even the idea of the self that we can envision via our imagination might be something else entirely residing in an orthogonal world. :) |