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The Zen of Advaita - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

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All perceivables and conceivablesare perceiver dependentIn Quantum <strong>Ph</strong>ysics if we were toexpand the size <strong>of</strong> the nucleus <strong>of</strong>an atom to the size <strong>of</strong> the sunand the electron to the size <strong>of</strong>the earth, there is more emptyspace between the nucleus and theelectron than there is between thesun and the earth.Put another way, the inside <strong>of</strong> anatom, which some imagine is made<strong>of</strong> something, is 99.999999999999%empty.In neuroscience, the perceiverarises through a bio-chemicalprocess in the brain whereby anabstraction (omitting) process <strong>of</strong>the nervous system occurs.All <strong>of</strong> the emptiness is abstracted(omitted, excluded or discarded)and through this automaticabstraction process .000054percent is left. <strong>The</strong>refore thesolid world which is perceived,(although unseen by us) isactually all emptiness. Ergo allperceivables and conceivables areempty and their perception anillusion.48

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