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I was criticizing your appeal to authority by showing you there's authority on my side of the argument as well. You used the fallacy first, and then I used it back against you, so you decided to call the fallacy on me. It was actually very funny to read.
I didn't do it first, you appealed first. With you mentioning Buddha. All I said was that Einstein was the first to right down how matter relates to energy, which is correct. You didn't even mention appeal to authority before I mention it, look back and see who used it first.
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And I believe Buddha understood more about the mechanism than Einstein or most others did.
I base my reasoning on facts or logic, not belifes. Anyway, I can believe unicorns exist, but they don't.
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Do all these concepts themselves create reality? No, of course not, but if there was an awareness of our entire collective "concept" of the universe that had no awareness of the world the concept is based off, then what would it see?
Concepts are a subset of reality, the number 2 doesn't create the real numbers, its just an element in the subset. Also, second question was just metaphysical jibberish.
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Every thought in your head is a symbol for the world you are experiencing. The entire left hemisphere of our brain operates in symbols.
Thoughts are not symbols, they are a collection of lots of complex things for example how you brain processes words and how neurons fire e.t.c.
Also, the left hemisphere does not operate in symbols, this is a gross oversimplification and is wrong.
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What is a word, but a mere symbol to inform someone of your intention? The only direct knowledge is silence.
Word is not a symbol, again I don't know how you're defining symbol. A word is made up of lots of ideas and symbols, not just one, hence you can't reduce words down to one thing. Also, direct knowledge is silence concept is just senseless metaphysics.
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My next question is, is the word of abstract symbols the same, or different from the world of matter and energy?
No its just a subset of reality, kind of like how matter is a subset of reality. Everything in this universe including silence is a subset of reality.