It was very powerful to witness my perceptions undergoing such a basic alteration ... a fundamental and profound change in the way I perceive things. ... I am acutely moved, as if a very deep part of me is recognizing some long lost elemental truths.

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• We seem to have a fundamental observation - so far unexplained - that among pairs of events, bits of space, places, and particles of existence, we can usually judge that one has a greater degree of life and the other less, at least according to our feeling.quote0.790
  Summarizes the empirical bedrock of the whole argument.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.785
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
• If someone develops clear enough introspection, they will eventually conclude that thought is rendered as subtle perturbations in phenomenal fields.hypothesis0.782
  Cube Flipper's prediction about convergence of insight practice on field model.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.782
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• Perception is a form of action; perception and action cannot be pulled apartclaim0.781
  Enactive consequence: active sampling of world means perception inherently involves action
• The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.780
  A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
• The so-definite fact of this sadness which enters things, and the fact that through this sadness we—all of us, I, you, and the person I have never known—all experience life in those things—it is hard to believe that it is only a trick or a mental state.claim0.780
  The intersubjective reality of the sadness effect argues against its being merely psychological; it points to an objective quality.
• The feeling or vision of emotional substance comes into our minds from the whole which exists.claim0.776