Originally Posted by Sageous
^^ Perception of reality is much different from the creation of reality, which is what the video implies consciousness does.
My impression is that some people realize that their sensate experience is projected by their mind, that they're not directly experiencing an external reality. Then they start making books and videos without recognizing or caring that they still don't understand their relationship with external reality. (Disclaimer: I didn't actually watch this particular video.) I don't understand reality either. But like you say, there are definitely some limitations to the way it works, a person can't just declare that up is down and make it happen.
One unfortunate consequence of believing that there are no limitations, is the only possible explanation for personal tragedy is you're doing it to yourself intentionally. That can create a positive-feedback loop of self-disappointment. Or another route is to declare that misery is actually just another form of bliss. Sadism and masochism follows, along with an almost insane loss of reasoning ability, having infected one's outlook with a contradiction that strong.
As I've posted elsewhere, its a misconception that quantum mechanics implies that anything depends on consciousness. The 'observer' and 'observed' are physical systems made up of particles, and the presence of a scientist is irrelevant. However, its also true that Schrodinger's cat is an actual consequence of quantum mechanics, not just a metaphor for a wave function. For systems outside the box, the cat is neither alive nor dead. That is very significantly different from the idea that there is an objective reality irrespective of interactions with it. I think that a lot of 'rational' people overlook how radical this idea really is because they can't wrap their minds around it.
I think the idea that thought creates reality isn't entirely false, but it falls short somehow. What we generally regard as "thoughts" are themselves a part of reality. If you try to recreate reality by changing your thoughts about it, you're still mostly rearranging the same kinds of objects, so to speak. Maybe part of the answer is to develop truer thoughts. The system of thoughts that we have won't work to change reality because it contains contradictions that we mostly don't recognize and understand, so mostly we fight against ourselves.
I do think there's something to the idea that our world wouldn't exist if we weren't in it. And I don't think that other worlds exist far away from us in space in quite the objective sense that is commonly assumed. For us, for now, they are truly like Schrodinger's cat. Or really big numbers that we haven't thought of. People's beliefs that the world is flat can't make it flat, because a flat world can't work, it doesn't make any sense. But who we are and how we think does seem to have some magical interrelation with fate, even though we don't understand that.
I've mentioned an experience I had a few years ago where an object was one place, then suddenly it was somewhere else as if it had always been there. Though it would be unreasonable for me to expect other people to believe this experience was real, to me it was a gift, a clue dropped for me about what is possible, as a part of a trail of a lot of other clues. I got the message, and I won't insult the giver by pretending I didn't.
Though people have been trying to change reality for a very long time, their motives and aims in doing that have often been fairly systematically selfish and self-defeating. One example of this is the way that people try to corral and control spiritual nourishment, weaving it into a proprietary theology and persecuting heretics. So I think we can expect accomplish a different result where our spirit is different.
When hiking this weekend, I spent a long time on a trail that was lined by large granite blocks, built ~80 years ago back when people used to build stuff like that. At intervals, lines of similar blocks cut across the trail at an angle. If not careful, a person could mistake these for the trail and follow them off downhill. But they're there to divert water, so that the water doesn't wreck the trail. We're like water. We try to think on these subjects, and we encounter the whirlpool of humanities thought. We are glamorized by them, and get confused and can't tell what's real. But at some point we'll be able to just push through that, if those thoughts are half wrong and lead somewhere else, we'll just straighten them out in our minds and push forward in the right direction anyway.
None of this should be taken to imply that I disagree with anything you've said.
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