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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  Where does the body end anyway? If the body is made up of mostly empty space and a few subatomic particles blinking in and out of existence, then how is the body different from the chair it sits on, which is also mostly empty space and the same kids of subatomic particles blinking in and out of existence? Indeed how is the body to be differentiated from the air around it, or from the entire universe itself (since it's the same mostly-empty space with the same subatomic particles). Isn't it just one extended, perfectly uniform quantum field of mostly empty space and blinking particles that we perceive .... a person .... to exist? |
But this is just one view of 'reality' - one that is no more or less true than simply looking at someone and simply seeing a person.
People throughout history have consistently made the mistake of confusing a contemporary 'truth' with some kind of ultimate truth. Our current view of a uniform quantum field is nothing more than a contemporary truth. It offers just another level, another way to view things.
However much you deconstruct phenomenal existence, you are still confronted with it. Whether you are able to 'see' (or imagine) the people in front of you at a quantum level or not, they are still in front of you as people. That is the first way in which we both perceive and conceive them.
What this simply means to me as regards the LoA is this: Can you use the LoA to get what you want in life? By LoA I mean the idea that
a benevolent universe will give you anything you fixate on. For anyone who can do that, good luck to you. Cure cancer. If you can't receive anything you want, then I would suggest you start looking for more plausible reasons for your success and implement them more consciously and regularly to bring you closer to what you want.
Cheers,
Eisho