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Human brains also deceive us into believing we are distinct entities, whereas in reality the universe is probably a single entity.


Cute, and in some respects insightful, but as a contribution it's arguably an equivocation on the definition of entity. You could similarly argue that human brains deceive us into believing we are distinct entities, whereas in reality we are billions of entities experiencing the emergent properties of multi-cellular life.


> probably a single entity

"Probably"? How about "surely" or "surely not"? Is an entity comprised of many things or one thing? Does it matter? Are you merely pointing out that there is no true separation between anything and everything that exists?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism




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