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I Doubted Everything. One Thing Refused to Leave
I came to this through equations, not incense. Somewhere between Plato and Bohr I hit a wall that our best physics still quietly steps around, and it would not move.
The Scientist's Road to Nonduality — begin with the first part, then follow the path.
I came to this through equations, not incense. Somewhere between Plato and Bohr I hit a wall that our best physics still quietly steps around, and it would not move.
A camera can't photograph itself. Turn your attention around to catch the one doing the looking, and it has already stepped back. Gödel found the same blind spot inside mathematics.
Press your hand flat on a table. It feels as solid as anything gets. Zoom in and the solidity turns into something else, and then that something else starts to disappear too.
Years of physics and philosophy pointed at one insight. When it finally landed, something in me reacted in a way no book had warned me about. The real question was who was reacting.
Every step from the Big Bang to your fingertips has a cause. Every step except one. Wittgenstein noticed it a century ago, and once you see it, it's hard to call anything ordinary again.
A scientist who has studied every wavelength and cone cell steps out of a black-and-white room and sees a rose. Philosophers have fought over this for decades. I think they've been fighting about the wrong thing.
I'm a Christian, and I'd read Romans 1:20 a hundred times as an argument about design. Then physics and philosophy changed the reader, and the same words started pointing somewhere else entirely.