(April 25, 2015 at 11:52 am)robvalue Wrote: Yeah. My best guess is it's somehow a representation of the workings of the mind; the emergent property manifesting. The word "illusion" is one I've used before, but that's a slippery one. Deceptive, certainly.
I see it as a "side effect". Does that make sense?
But yeah, trying to understand it is like taking on the U.S. Army with a rolled up newspaper.
lol. Yeah, the problem with saying something is an illusion is that you get screwed up if you don't know how to decide what is and isn't an illusion. So yeah, 'slippery'.
I think it depends what you mean by 'side effect', as what would religion be a side effect of?