“Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself?”
Norman Spinrad book The Void Captain's Tale
Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 13 (p. 164)
“Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.”
Source: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 9, Re-Existence, p. 620
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Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) Russian philosopher
As translated at Gallery of Russian Thinkers … selected by Dmitry Olshansky (2005)<!-- by Richard Schain --> http://www.isfp.co.uk/russian_thinkers/nikolay_berdyaev.html <br class="br">Dream and Reality (1949) <br class="br">Context: There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the spirit. The origin of life is creativity, freedom; and the personality, subject, and spirit are the representatives of that origin, but not the nature, not the object.
Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) German philosopher and sociologist
John Cumming trans., p. 7.
Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment] (1944)
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
John Cumming trans., p. 7
Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment] (1944)
“(…) In reality there is only consciousness. All life is conscious, all consciousness alive.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru
Awareness and consciousness
Source: "I am That." P.47.
David Graeber (1961) American anthropologist and anarchist
Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Seven, "Honor and Degradation", p. 167
“Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.”
Susan Blackmore (1951) British writer and academic
- Susan Blackmore, interview in MungBeing
“Games are enactments, and the act of playing is an illusion of the illusion of the reality”
Gianni Sarcone (1962) Italian author, artist, designer, and researcher in visual perception and cognitive psychology
Make Your Own 3D Illusions (2014).
Context: We long for a technological world, while keeping the natural aspect of our environment; we want the progress, while maintaining the traditions; we want organization while preserving individual freedom; we produce at a large scale while looking for unique products; we want clearness in our relationships, while we like to play with the ambiguity; we wish everlasting happiness while seeking incomparable magic moments… In reality, from all these contradictions, we are looking for only one thing: ASTONISHMENT. We would life to astonish us every day! That’s why we all, human beings, love playing, because games are synonymous of risk and astonishment. Games are enactments, and the act of playing is an illusion of the illusion of the reality.
“Consciousness is the one thing in this universe that cannot be an illusion.”
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Source: 2010s, Waking Up (2014), p. 54