*What can I know about what is happening here? What is this, what AM I? What can I know for sure? What our life seems to be depends completely on the answers to these questions. *Upon investigating, clearly the only fact I can be certain of is that EXPERIENCE IS. *But what does this MEAN? Of course, typically we have all sorts of ideas about this, including: - the idea that I am an entity that exists in a universe that is separate from me; - that "I" am "having" "my" experience (yet somehow removed from it); - that I have/am a vulnerable physical body that has a precarious existence within an objectively existing, potentially hostile physical world, that contains potentially dangerous situations and other self-willed entities that might be working at cross purposes to my survival and enjoyment; - that I have some degree of control within my world, and it behooves me to contrive elaborate strategies to attempt to ward off or minimize all these potential threats to my survival and enjoyment; -and on and on. *But is any of this TRUE? Can I know that my ideas and assumptions about what this "experience" is, what "I" am, are true? What CAN I actually know for sure? *WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING HERE? . |