(04-12-2018, 08:32 PM)peregrine Wrote:(04-12-2018, 03:36 PM)Stranger Wrote:peregrine Wrote:So, you as a fact will surely fade away and be forgotten over some extended period of time, just as if you had never existed.
Each moment of each of our existences exists eternally, simultaneously, with all other moments, in perpetuity. Our Larger Self contains all of them, and because time is an illusion, each moment affects every other moment, and they together make up the Whole Self.
This may be so in time/space and it may be evident to a denizen of such, but I was speaking above about something else. From the point of view the experience of space/time. from the point of view of your body, I believe what I said to be correct. The power of the body's perspective ought not be underestimated, and it won't necessary go along with an idea just because your mind-stuff favors it.
Anyhow, beyond that small point, I'm not sure about this "each moment of each existence" business. I favor the idea that our Larger Self is a distillation of all that jazz, not a verbatim catalogue.
It's all about where one draws the boundary, isn't it? Maybe like concentric circles - distillation in the middle, totality of experience around the fringes.
peregrine Wrote:Oh, by the way, isn't every monkey bipedal?
Exclusively bipedal? No, I don't think so - just this one. Wikipedia tells me that:
Wikipedia Wrote:All primates possess some bipedal ability, though most species primarily use quadrupedal locomotion on land.