Reassembling Models of Reality: Theory and Clinical Practice
Aldrich Chan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We only experience a fraction of the reality we are a part of. What if we turn our eyes toward the interior of reality? Is it possible that the interior follows the patterns of the exterior? Might our state of consciousness reflect only a fraction of what may be potentially experienced?”
“The very act of perception is transformation; we transform the code of the universe to the world we see.”
“...we are not seeing reality as it is; rather, we see the spectrum of light most useful to our survival." -Aldrich Chan”
“the brain is not idle, passively receiving information, but produces perceptual expectations influencing how sensory information is ultimately interpreted”
“mirror neurons are active when a person is recognizing their own face...the very act of self-reflection may have been made possible via mirror neurons, which allow us to reflect on an internal representation of self.”
“What endures in states of extreme suffering and euphoria? Meaning.”
“The objective world around us extends far beyond what we can sense and perceive. Only a sliver of information is received and understood, and not passively so; in fact, we do so rather actively. That sliver of information is transformed and filtered through non- conscious processes that actively select what we end up perceiving consciously. We are always more than we are aware of and there is always more happening than we can be conscious of.”
“If we are to presuppose that the universe is inherently material, that we are emergent organisms from this universe and by nature we seek and generate meaning, meaning itself becomes a substructure of the universe. To think otherwise is to dissociate ourself from the universe, which contradicts the latter belief”
“Humans perceive the world as subjects, yet we are also objects composed of the same material that we are perceiving from. Our attempts to sense the reality hidden behind veils, is very much like a game of hide and seek.”
“Dreaming can be understood as another form of consciousness that requires its sibling, waking consciousness, to imbue it with meaning”
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