r/analyticidealism

Hey all... I'm an idealist and the experience feels more embodied now, and yet I still love science and mathematics even if not experiencing them as I once did. And I wonder, from within idealism, what is mathematics to you? Is math, 'the structure of shared qualia' perhaps? It feels like more than that somehow as the old magic mattered even if ironically I can consider 'well how I once related to math when my mind was more Cartesian was a qualia in itself as relating to what I saw'. So I don't know, maybe there's an answer in there, just curious, maybe it's integrating different relationships to math and realising 'they're all different angles of understanding what angles are'. Either way math remains 'real' to me, just not sure how to define it and maybe it can't be... Maybe it is a type of 'music', in that it reflects back something in how we experience life.

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If Heaven is limited to the 5 senses, or what can be humanly measured to put it broadly, an individual's "five" senses determine what their personal heaven is. The best sights "according to them", what they "prefer" to hear, the best tastes, smells, tactile sensations, "in their personal opinion."

According to Christian theology, a multiverse doesn't exist, or at least travel between verses is impossible, because that would mean a person who goes from one universe to another possibly went to "Heaven" or "Hell" while alive. If Heaven also exists on a personal level though, this doesn't clash with that theology: It's possible that you could "walk" to your personal heaven, on Earth or elsewhere, the same as if you replaced the word "heaven" with "hell".

For example, I'd say I want my personal heaven to have no swearing, but what I really want is to be someone who doesn't even think of swearing.

I believe I've evolved from calling myself a "God seeker" to "Truth seeker", so I've stopped looking for "what I think God is", though that might sound like a paradox. If I never ate from the tree of knowledge, I'd be in "Eden" right now, and I probably wouldn't be talking to you. But I didn't eat from the tree of "intellectual" knowledge, I ate from the tree of "experiential" knowledge. I'm not going to call my memories what they aren't, or try to forget them, I'm going to use them as a personal compass to see where I want to go, and I'll go farther, as far as I need to go.

If I had to diagnose myself with "main character syndrome", it wouldn't be because I think I'm as "omnipotent" as "I AM", though I can get stronger, as omniscient as "I AM", though I can become more knowledgeable, as omnibenelovent as "I AM", though I can become more loving, but because "I think, therefore I am."