...he shows how a single distinction almost inevitably leads to an imagined universe of incredible complexity. IOW, one act of distinction artificially divides THIS into two abstract states, and the process continues from there as mind continues chopping up THIS into finer and finer bits and pieces related to one another through increasingly abstract (imaginary) ways.
After we divide THIS, psychologically, into two imaginary states (self and other), we then usually divide what is "other" into the "ten-thousand things." What is a rock? What is a star? What is time, space, color, density, gravity, electricity, magnetism, etc? All of these questions have very humorous matter-of-fact answers if the illusion of separateness is penetrated. The physicist, lost in the dream of separateness, constantly mistakes ideas for the truth. The most basic assumptions that the physicist makes (which underlie everything else) are almost never examined.
After we divide THIS, psychologically, into two imaginary states (self and other), we then usually divide what is "other" into the "ten-thousand things." What is a rock? What is a star? What is time, space, color, density, gravity, electricity, magnetism, etc? All of these questions have very humorous matter-of-fact answers if the illusion of separateness is penetrated. The physicist, lost in the dream of separateness, constantly mistakes ideas for the truth. The most basic assumptions that the physicist makes (which underlie everything else) are almost never examined.
