Okay, but how does that really address my point above?
From my own perspective, it’s not that different minds think different things about something instead of nothing. Rather it is that there appears to be an yawning gap between what any particular mind has come to think about it [in an autonomous universe] and all that would need to be known about the existence of existence itself in order to assess how accurate this thinking is.
And here I am again pointing out that my first reaction revolves around what I construe to be a “first person omniscient” point of view. You inflect this sense of certainty about what you think is true about things you have no real capacity to demonstrate that others ought to think is true too. Beyond merely agreeing with your argument itself.
You merely start with a set of assumptions about the relationship between “reality” and “minds” and “illusory knowledge”.
To be truly open one must think like a baby because babies have the purest minds of all for theirs are as free as they will ever be
This means that one must simply be open at all times to all possibilities and make absolutely no assumptions about anything at all
Again, if we live in a wholly determined universe, the minds of all living things reflect merely the illusion of being free. And the very point that you make about making no assumptions is an assumption in and of itself.
From my perspective the first can easily be accepted as a concept while the second although desirable is probably impossible to achieve
Neither of these are my own but I understand very clearly why those who have accepted them for themselves think the way they doWhat you think of them is entirely up to you as all I am doing is simply informing you of their existence as just other ways of seeing reality
Way too abstract for me.
Let’s focus in on a context in which you and I might interact. How might this “general description” assessment be applicable? And then imagine the most promising way in which to connect the dots between this particular understanding of reality in this particular context as that might be understood given all that we have absolutely no clue regarding going back to the existence of an infinite somethingness or a something that was derived from nothing at all.