This post refers to the Philosophy Project.
The purpose of this post is simply to provide a holding area for ideas.
We shall be looking around at all different kind of stuff to digest it. The ideas shall first be discussed under the COMMENTS section. Anything pertinent will then be added to this post.
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(December 2025) I am writing these comments in color, 13 years after writing this post, just to see how much my viewpoint has changed. This should be fun.
A self (being) seems to be simply a “center of considerations” that it holds and continually outputs.
(Dec 2025) Self exists to resolve anomalies. The sense of self dissolves when no anomalies remain. There remains only a dimension of awareness independent of the universe.
(Feb 2026) Self consists of the postulates of (1) Substantiality, (2) Awareness, and (3) Oneness. It assimilates the anomaly when it looks at it closely.
As the perception point identifies itself with knowledge through considerations, it gets fixed in its place, and loses it fluidity. Thus, “I,” or the self, is generated.
(Dec 2025) Knowledge, thought, consciousness, etc., are part of the universe. These are subject to awareness, just as the rest of the universe is.
(Feb 2026) Awareness gets fixated when it is unable to assimilate substantiality. The outcome is a disintegrated self.
All knowledge, regardless of its source, should be consistent. When there is inconsistency, there must be something unresolved that is underlying that inconsistency. Spiritual progress occurs when one starts to spot inconsistencies as they come up naturally and applies mindfulness to them until they dissolve.
(Dec 2025) Oneness (continuity, consistency and harmony) is the ideal state of awareness. A violation of oneness appears as an anomaly.
(Feb 2026) Lack of assimilation appears as anomalies. Resolution of anomalies restores the integrity of self.
As one starts to look mindfully at an inconsistency, it may lead to a chain of inconsistencies. Just keep looking more closely at the inconsistency that is on the “top of the stack.” It is very important to follow the 12 points of mindfulness.
(Dec 2025) Inconsistency is referred to as anomaly now. This above link is also updated to The 12 Aspects of Mindfulness.
(Feb 2026) The anomaly may change as it resolves. Keep looking closely at the anomaly until it fully resolves.
“I” generates considerations (assessment, speculations, judgments, justifications, assumptions, etc.). These considerations are capable of filtering whatever “I” looks at. Taking responsibility means not letting one’s considerations color one’s perception and seeing things as they are.
(Dec 2025) “I” (sense of self) exists in the dimension of awareness to resolve anomalies with the goal to bring about oneness. A “filter” is an anomaly of “I” due to identification. Identification is “I” confusing itself with something in the universe.
(Feb 2026) “I” as observer is pure awareness. It becomes impure when it thinks itself to be some viewpoint it assumes, or a conclusion or consideration it makes. Such identification colors its perception.
Considerations seem to bring in the factor of “preservation,” whether it is the preservation of self, or the preservation of property. Justice seems to be concerned with such preservation.
(Dec 2025) When “I” identifies with anything in the universe, then that is an anomaly. It is moving away from its function of resolving anomalies.
(Feb 2026) “I” as pure awareness have nothing to preserve. It is foused on the resolution of anomaly rather than on preserving anything.
Everything about this universe is in flux. Nothing stays the same. Everything is impermanent. Yet this whole system made up of impermanence seems to be permanently there. How can this inconsistency of “impermanence being permanently there” be explained?
(Dec 2025) Relative permanence is a view from a higher dimension.
(Feb 2026) What appears to be permanent is pure substantiality, awareness and oneness as such, and not anyting specific.
Perception is there as long as manifestation is there. When manifestation is not there, there is no perception either. Thus, there can never be a perception of the state of non-manifestation. We would always perceive manifestation to be there. Ha ha… Q.E.D.
(Dec 2025) Consciousness starts with sensation.
(Feb 2026) Awareness is present only when substantiality id there. One can never be aware of a complete absence of substantiality.
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(1) An “identity” may simply be a tight “knot” of considerations that needs to be loosened up.
(2) The self is the “center of considerations” analogous to the “center of mass.”
(3) An identity may not affect the self if it is somewhere at the periphery of considerations.
(4) If the identity is closer to the center, it may appear as if the self is stuck with it.
(5) But there are simply a bunch of considerations knotted together, which needs to be loosened up.
(6) Being stuck is simply “some considerations locked into each other.”
(Dec 2025) An identity comes about when the self (solver of anomalies) starts to identify itself with something in the dimension of the universe.
(Feb 2026) An identification is a misperception of awareness as having some substantiality. Awareness has no substantiality of its own.
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There seems to be two different levels of knowledge:
(1) A level of knowledge before SELF comes into being.
(Dec 2025) This is the dimension of Awareness.
(Feb 2026) Self is formed out of the postulates of substantiality, awareness, and oneness. Before SELF is all unknowable.
(2) Another level of knowledge, which is generated when SELF starts to react to the previous level of knowledge.
(Dec 2025) This is consciousness in the dimension of the Universe.
(Feb 2026) What persists after SELF are unassimilated considerations only.
Such a reaction may occur in chain resulting in ballooning of considerations. The only way to stop and reverse such ballooning of considerations would be to look non-judgmentally and see what is actually there.
(Dec 2025) This is mindfulness.
(Feb 2026) Reactions are made of chains of unassimilated considerations that needs to be closely looked at.
Then one is no longer reacting to what is there. Instead one is now continually realizing what is there. This starts to deflate the ballooning considerations. In other words, the ego, or self, gradually starts to dissolve.
(Dec 2025) This is the resolution of anomalies.
(Feb 2026) Only the corruption of SELF. dissolves.
One can never predict where this process might lead to. 
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At death, the body disintegrates into its particles, and the identity that was the body is dissolved. Similarly, the observing and thinking part of the person (the living soul) also disintegrates into its particles (considerations), and the identity that was the person is also dissolved. That is my current understanding.
(Dec 2025) In death, awareness separates from consciousness.
(Feb 2026) In death, only the unassimilated genetic programming remains as part of space.
However, the particles remain and they can recombine into another “body plus living soul” combination. There is infinity of such recombination.
(Dec 2025) In birth, awareness combines with consciousness.
(Feb 2026) During gestation, the developing embryo acquires the genetic programming that resonates with it.
What are the ultimate laws underlying this disintegration and reintegration, I don’t know the details at the moment. But this seems to be going on forever like complex cycles of some eternal wave according to Hinduism.
Nirvana is something different altogether. It happens to a live soul. In my opinion, nirvana is like exteriorization from CONSIDERATIONS. It is the separation of perception-point from all its considerations. This is called giving up of all attachment in Hinduism. One then sees things as they are without any filters as in Buddhism. There is no individuality in terms of considerations. A perception point is the same as any other perception point. It does not add anything to what is observed or experienced.
(Dec 2025) Nirvana is returning to the dimension of Awareness.
(Feb 2026) Nirvana is when there is no genetic programming remains after death
Nothing arrives at Nirvana. it is what remains after all attachments are dissolved. I call it a perception-point. But even the perception-point dissolves at parinirvana by merging into its own manifestation… something like electron merging into positron.
Parinirvana is probably what occurs at death, where the live soul, that was already reduced to a completely detached perception-point, merges back into its own manifestation, extinguishing both. The laws of disintegration and reintegration are thus bypassed. But this is only my speculation.
The basis of this speculation is removal of all inconsistencies that I am aware of at this level.
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