What the escaped prisoner in Plato's Cave sees when he goes topside is not fact provable via evidence, but it is fact of an even greater reality than the limited reality of the shadows cast on the walls of the cave's interior. It is totally demonstrable but entails that the other prisoners would necessarily have to go see for themselves. It means having to temporarily put their opinions and ideas gained from their prior experience aside.
True. But there are people that claim things all the time. We don't believe them until evidence is provided. That is simple as can be. The plato's cave argument is not a reason to throw out the need for evidence.
Yes, they do. You are creating an artificial, arbitrary scenario that ultimately is within the absolute, because, taken as a whole, all relativity is actually the absolute. You're just dissecting it and looking at what you think is a piece of it; it's not. It is always connected to the whole, to the absolute.
Again, when we talk about Everything, that means there is nothing else to which it can be compared. That is the Absolute. We don't need fact or evidence to prove that. We can see that via Logic.
What you aren't getting is that you don't require an absolute to have a discrepancy. That does not mean that absolutes don't exist but they are simply irrelevant. And even the few absolutes that do exist don't support your argument.
Now you change your story.
If absolutes are a matter of perspective, then they are still relative, but Everything is not a matter of perspective; it is the way things ultimately are perse, and so absolute.
I haven't changed my story. I don't get into ******* contests and this is starting to make me feel like I'm in one.
And everything is a matter of perspective. No exceptions. We cannot "view" something without a perspective. This is one of the unbreakable rules in ToR
Discrimination and duality are not possible without mind, and mind is not possible without consciousness. Because a self requires thought to exist ('I think, therefore I exist') it is not present in consciousness, as consciousness is a condition prior to thought. Therefore, consciousness is non-local, just as TV signals are non-local. They are present before and after the TV is turned on. How else do you suppose a baby already knows the game of peek-a-boo without ever having been taught? Hide and Seek is the basic game of the universe, and babies come fresh from the conscious universe. But as we become more exposed to social indoctrination and mental conditioning, we lose touch with universal consciousness, which is actually our true nature.
You again start saying things that contradict each other. I agree that "thought" perse is not the same thing as "consciousness". However the line in which consciousness became thought is not known but does not require anything beyond our current scientific view.
-support you claim that consciousness is non-local. Nothing you've said so far hints to it.
-Actually we know why babies know peekabo and children hide and seek. Its a game we have evolved to like as it is instinctive to train with "play". Its not some universal phenomenon. For example plants don't do it. Bacteria doesn't do it. Birds don't do it (that I know of). Turtles don't play hide and seek. Mainly mammals.
Again, you have no proof that emergent theory is fact. At this point, it is still hypothesis and conjecture. It is detecting a TV signal and assuming it's source is the TV set. It's wrong.
Its a theory based on evidence and reasoning. Your statements are claims based on nothing. And you have now made the claim that the science is wrong without any counter evidence. I don't need to rebuttal this.
That the nature of the physical world is not very physical.
Support this claim.
You're again misinterpreting what I've said; I never said QM supports my beliefs.
What you call 'physical' is just energy that is changing all the time. All 'physical' phenomena is temporal. It only appears static. There is no such thing as an ocean wave; it is energy-form, as all physicality is energy-form.
Remove your labels; then you might see things a bit more clearly. Reality is not it's description.
And where is your evidence?
Not sure which mysticism you are referring to. The fact of the matter is that, throughout history and in completely different parts of the world, mystics have consistently come to realize the same thing: that the world we think is real via ordinary consciousness, is not what we think it is. QM has just found that same fact out.
Actually QM and what they have come to believe are very different things. The bit that mystics have come to realize around the world is that the world we see is purely based on our interpretation of the world. To blind men the world is different than to those that can see. The sort of Matrix effect if you will. Religious influence as well has caused this trend.
QM states that the quantum level of our universe obeys different laws that seem strange to us as we only feel the affects of Newtonian physics. Nothing more.