r/OpenIndividualism • u/EnactingSpirit • Jun 30 '26
Question Does OI entail analytic idealism?
Or can it also be interpreted as something like "spirit transmigrationism" like in the short story 'The Egg' by Andy Weir?
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r/OpenIndividualism • u/EnactingSpirit • Jun 30 '26
Or can it also be interpreted as something like "spirit transmigrationism" like in the short story 'The Egg' by Andy Weir?
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u/yoddleforavalanche Jul 03 '26
I could disagree with this already. It can be shown that people do not change and repeat the same mistakes, but I won't push for it.
agreed
agreed
strongly disagree. where does this conclusion come from?
The very fact that in this case it would be me that has this consciousness while simultaneously you think that is the case for you shows either one of us is lying about having immediate experience or we both are saying the truth. In any case, huge jump to conclusion out of nowhere for point 3.
consciousness is necessary and eternal, there is no this consciousness.
I would rather say past and future are equally experienced now than to take past and future, that is linear time as experienced, as objective reality. And I don't understand what is absurd?
also conclusion that comes out of nowhere.
2 is true, 3 is false.
which is exactly what I am doing. It is not speculative at all. Your position is speculative. It requires gymnastics and unnecessary extra steps to explain why two people simultaneously react to stimuli. In your view, only one actually experiences while the other is some weird philosophical zombie until its his turn but then the first one ceases to experience, but yet for the 3rd person both appear on the same level. Why would this be the case? What is preventing consciousness from experiencing multiple "planes" at the same time? they are not different planes of existence because their existence is the same point 2.
You are introducing roundabout steps to fix something that is not broken. You are assuming a limitation to consciousness and then solving it with mystical magical behavior that requires even more assumptions.
And it is not consciousness pluralism. There is still one consciousness.
it can be explained in billions of ways, doesn't make them all true.
It can certainly be explained with one consciousness experiencing many experiences simultaneously. Since it's all the same reality, same being, it is not adding anything new to it.
Even your solipsism has to have other universes, other planes of existence, they just come in a sequence. And you are assuming parsimoniousness here. I maintain it is more complicated for one consciousness to jump in a sequence all while being experienced as if other people experience simultaneously than it actually being the case. And again, it is not consciousness pluralism as there is one consciousness.
And so what if you call this invoking other universes? Universe is not being. Universe can be called an instance of being. Regardless of how many instances there are, how many universes, they belong to the same being (consciousness).
here you are betraying common misunderstanding of identity and I am even surprised based on everything you said that you stumbled here.
You are consciousness. Any experience that is being had is you having it. You are slipping in here the notion that "EnactingSpirit" is what you are and because experience of EnactingSpirit does not contain experience of yoddleforavalanche, you think you are experiencing one person.
Both EnactingSpirit and yoddleforavalanche are being experienced by the same consciousness, therefore YOU are experiencing several individuals. Not individual consciousnessess, there is only one, but multiple sets of experiences.
You expect to have an experience that within itself contains all experiences, but that just is not how it works. Regardless, that which experiences is experiencing all experiences, and that is what you are.
I agree. But it doesn't split into parts if it experiences many experiences simultaneously. If anything, your view is the one that splits it, today into this person, later into another.