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good to hear your "voice", DaveW!<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Finally, the ideal of
"non-attached" action and the omniscience that comes with
achievement of Satori allows one to consciously and
intentionally take the "correct," non karma accruing, action at
every moment seems like the ultimate 'free will' in the sense
that "you" intentionally make the correct turn at each juncture
of Sopolsky's deterministic maze. Note this does not free you
from the maze; merely allows you to actually choose each step of
the path through the maze.<br>
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<p>If I understand the metaphor intended, it seems that this reduces
a maze to a labyrinth?</p>
<p>My own (limited) apprehension of Satori would suggest that if I
were to achieve (approach?) that state the "maze" would reduce to
a "labyrinth" as suggested above?</p>
<p>Or in the idiom of physics, Sapolsky's model suggests to me that
human activity (consciousness in general) reduces to a "least
action path", albeit through a high-dimensional space that nobody
has (can?) identify in the same way Einstein said "God doesn't
play Pachinko with the Universe" and insisted on there being
simply "hidden variables"? <br>
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<p>We are all just following geodesics on a high-dimensional
manifold, and the illusion we call consciousness is a model
running in our brains which seeks to modify itself up until there
are "no surprises"? Seeking enlightenment/Satori is an alternate
path (to tweaking up one's internal model of reality) of choosing
to (noticing) that said model will always be low-dimensional and
will never be equal to the territory and therefore relaxes the
attention into simply *noticing* the maze-following "choices" as
they are made?</p>
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