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Saturday, 2 October 2021

Consider the constitution of the ongoing experience out of prima undifferentiated oneness as made solely out of distinctions, and so as a binary branching tree of infinite or near infinite complexity. The distinctions are not made relative to the same level of reality, as between red or blue, or solid or liquid, mental or physical, where each can be defined. Think rather of the Kantian distinction of transcendental and phenomenal, or more simply of game designer and game player, where the former creates the rules by which the latter forms a world, and for whom the rules are invariant as long as the play demands that they continue so. Call these two types of branches T-branches and P-branches, and say that every branching has more or less this T or P character. In those that are metaphysically 'upstream' these characters are very different but, later, downstream, they are quite subtle. Say also that there is an affinity, a mysterious unity among all T-branches and also among all P-branches. Then see what this says about what are phenomenally experienced as individual minds.

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