From: Deepak Chopra

From: Deepak Chopra To: Bamaby Marsh <1 >, Jeff Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: Fwd: Brian Greene on We could be a simulation Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 11:43:08 +0000 Happy New Year f ( t 9 Deepak Chopra 2013 Costa Del Mar Road Carlsbad, CA 92013 New Book: Begin forwarded message: From: Deepak Chopra Date: January 2, 2017 at 6:29:16 AM EST To: Michael Shermer Cc: Leonard Mlodinow , Carolyn Rangel < Subject: Re: Brian Greene on We could be a simulation No Michael I do not agree with Brian that we are simulation . Let me summarize the monistic consciousness worldview . I Whenever we use the word " we " or " I " - it is consciousness that is being referred to . 2 Mind / Body/Universe are experiences in consciousness. 3 Consciousness is that in which all experience occurs , all experience is known , and out of which all experience is made . It is the knowing element in every experience . 4 Fundamental experience is in the form of sensations images feelings thoughts perceptions. 5 Experiences are modifications of consciousness- thoughts and perceptions are modified forms of consciousness, 6 You cannot separate an object from the perception of it . 7 Consciousness is non local and therefore formless , timeless spaceless. EFTA01058046 8 Humans are a species of consciousness that have created models out of basic experiences or qualia ( sensations images feelings thoughts perceptions) 9 Mind / Body / Universe are human constructs, conceptualized in consciousness. In that sense the world we experience is our simulation ( hence You Are The ( Human ) Universe . 10 Consciousness is personal, interpersonal, collective, transpersonal, trans species ( you share awareness with your dog, cat etc without a clue as to their actual perceptual experience ) collective and universal. ( universal does not mean extending in endless directions of space time but just formless and not in space time ) 11 All sentient beings ( species ) are extensions of one consciousness and are conditioned aspects of pure consciousness. 12 Consciousness cannot be visualized or perceived but modifies itself into images thoughts perceptions etc . 13 Our fundamental Being is consciousness/ awareness Descartes was incorrect when he said " I think therefore I am " It's the other way around " I am therefore I think " . Before a thought arises there is awareness . So too before images or perceptions arise there is awareness . 14 Awareness/ consciousness is the common ground of all experience. Awareness is One , perceptions are innumerable . 15 The objectification of experience creates the " simulation " of an external world ® that includes the Body/Mind experience. 16 The real You is not the Body / Mind/Universe ( they go together ) but the formless being who experiences Body/ Mind/ Universe as an intermittent stream of sensations images feelings thoughts perceptions. 17 By objectifying experience we created an external world , learned to quantify it , measure it , tabulate it , create phyla etc - all human constructs around raw experience. 18 There is no hard problem of consciousness if that's your ontological primitive. All there is - is consciousness and its modifications as experience. 19 Laws of Nature are regularities of experience . 20 God as conceptualized by religions is also a human construct- just like the Big Bang ! 21.Science cannot explain experience ( hard problem ) including the experience of doing science . 22 Science is the greatest adventure that consciousness has undertaken but because it is based on subject / object split it can be used for our destruction- nuclear weapons , climate change, extinction of species , eco destruction etc 23 A science within consciousness would be holistic and create more humility as well. 24 The goal of existence is to know who we are - the awareness of existence - 25 This understanding and experience could lead to a more peaceful just sustainable healthier and happier world . I'm in NYC Jan6 thru 10 and off and on in Feb . I may be here in June . There is a Science of Consciousness conference in Shanghai in late June If dates work I would love to see you guys ( Leonard please note ) in NYC and take you out for dinner etc Happy New Year ft; Love Deepak Chopra 2013 Costa Del Mar Road Carlsbad, CA 92013 New Book: EFTA01058047 On Jan I, 2017, at 9:20 PM, Michael Shermer < > wrote: But Deepak, you don't agree with Greene that we might be living in a simulation as he describes it, do you? Or would a different type of simulation be something along the lines of what you propose in You Are the Universe? (A universal consciousness would be a type of simulation?) I might be in New York June 1-4 for the Science Festival so Jennifer and Vinnie and I can come visit if you're in town. Michael EFTA01058048