Consciousness as the only thing that exists, a thought experiment.
Mental Universe is a non-dogmatic metaphysical thought experiment. It begins by asking: what kind of coherent model emerges if consciousness is the only thing that exists?
The ideas that follow are premises explored within the model, not claims of proven fact, established science or authority. The model may be examined, challenged, modified or rejected.
Starting premise. Within this thought experiment, only consciousness exists. Physical space and matter have no independent reality; they are mental constructs thought within consciousness. Consciousness is not a single undivided whole but many: an innumerable number of separate thinking points, each a distinct consciousness with its own identity and will. Human consciousness is understood as such a thinking point, not yet fully independent in its thinking.
The thinking point. In its essence, a consciousness is a dimensionless thinking point. It occupies zero physical space and possesses its own “I”: its own identity, its own will.
Thinking space. Although the thinking point is dimensionless, it contains an inner, unbounded thinking space with potentially staggering power of thought. Whatever the thinking point thinks exists instantly as an emotion-construct in its own thinking space: everything at once, and there is no time.
The origin of a new thinking point. A thinking point can isolate a small piece of its own consciousness. That piece goes into training, to make itself independent into a new I, a new thinking point.
Inner space and shared boundary. Each thinking point has its own inner thinking space, private, and as large as it thinks it. Yet thinking points are not isolated. At a shared boundary, they exchange composite emotions, each choosing what it wishes to share.
A thinking point holds an unbounded inner thinking space. Every human is such a thinking point in the making.
The community of minds. These thinking points are genuinely separate consciousnesses, each with its own identity and will. Together they form an innumerable community of minds, able to communicate with one another across the shared boundary.
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