I want an answer right now. Who wrote this book? Why did they

Reading just the first chapter, I think it's a valid belief. He posits that the idea that each being, whether bacteria or mammal or whatever is experiencing it's own separate existence is false. He says that before this life, you experienced another life, or that there is no real "you", only a consciousness that inhabits each living thing.

It's a neat idea, but we can't prove or disprove it so it's equally valid to the belief that we are each individuals with no overlap. We (scientists) have no idea how consciousness works and can't even prove that any human is conscious in the way we believe ourselves to be. See the idea of philosophical zombies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

TLDR, it's interesting, but we can't say whether it's true or not.

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But why is OP losing his shit over a personal perspective? Why ask us? If it were true technically did he not write the book? Have we not all read it through him reading it? Through you reading it?

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>>18295307
OP is losing his shit because he believes that everyone would act differently if they knew what this book said. OP is wrong, of course. People will act the way they always have and change only slowly the way they always have.

>If it were true technically did he not write the book? Have we not all read it through him reading it? Through you reading it?
Yep.

I think the best thing you can take from this idea is that it's stupid to be shitty to other people. You will(have) experience(d) both your own perspective and the perspective of your victim, so you're only fucking with yourself.

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Yeah, you're right. I didn't know there was actual source material to which OP was referring. After >>18295258, though, I find that I actually have read this before, but I think this is a more edited or polished edition.

Basically, it's a useful metaphor, certainly, and there is a lot of truth in it, but there's also plenty of cringeworthy assertions that reveal the subjective mania of the author (the obsession with the Beatles comes to mind).

I don't really know what OP means by asking who wrote it, because there's both a name and email address in the file, and it's from a website, so like spiritually I guess if the assertion that we are the culmination of all previous human history is true, and it seems fairly obvious that it is, then maybe in some sense we *all* wrote it?

Either way, I think it's more useful than distracting, and surely worth discussing and thinking about.

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