Proper nondualism isn't a oneness substance. And people think that it resolves the mystery of existence, because it does. It resolves the hard problem of consciousness, what 'mind' and 'life' are etc. these are simple issues.seeds wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2019 5:30 pm The problem with nondualism is not that it may be true at some foundational level,...
(I’m thinking of Spinoza’s oneness substance)
...but that those who promote it (such as the Advaita “not-two” crowd) seem to think (or at least seem to imply) that it somehow resolves the mystery of existence.
However, if it is indeed a fact that everything is seamlessly interwoven in some non-dualistic or monistic fashion, then it would be nothing more than a quirky feature of reality that offers absolutely nothing toward answering the questions of what life, mind, and consciousness are, or how the hundred-billion+ galaxies of the universe were brought into being.
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What it doesn't solve is why we humans are here anyway, in this particular universe. After assuming nondualism and an infinity of possibilities / a few additional dimensions, is where philosophy actually starts in my opinion.