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From: Deepak Chopra Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 4:13 PM To: Jeff Epstein Subject: Fwd: FYI My response to her Deepak Chopra MD 2013 Costa Del Mar Road <x-apple-data-detectors://0> Carlsbad, CA 92009 <x-apple-data-detectors://0> Chopra Foundation <http://www.choprafoundation.org/> Jiyo <http://www.jiyo.com/> Chopra Center for Wellbeing <http://www.chopra.com/> <http://home-everyone-welcome.comk Home: Where Everyone is Welcome <http://home-everyone-welcome.comk Begin forwarded message: From:


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From: Deepak Chopra 
Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 4:13 PM 
To: Jeff Epstein 
Subject: Fwd: FYI 
My response to her 
Deepak Chopra MD 
2013 Costa Del Mar Road <x-apple-data-detectors://0> 
Carlsbad, CA 92009 <x-apple-data-detectors://0> 
Chopra Foundation <http://www.choprafoundation.org/> 
Jiyo <http://www.jiyo.com/> 
Chopra Center for Wellbeing <http://www.chopra.com/> 
<http://home-everyone-welcome.comk 
Home: Where Everyone is Welcome <http://home-everyone-welcome.comk 
Begin forwarded message: 
From: Amanda Gefter > 
Date: September 5, 2017 at 12:08:00 AM PDT 
To: Deepak Chopra <mailto
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Subject: Re: FYI 
Hi Deepak, 
Great to hear from you again. Thanks for sending your interesting article - I enjoyed reading this one, and the 
follow up. While I don't agree with every point in them, I do think it's important that people realize that naive realism is 
an illusion. And I especially liked the point you made about panpsychism as a way of sneaking "things" in through the 
back door. 
I'd like to understand your distinction between mind and consciousness a bit better - it's an interesting take. I 
suspect, as I think you've suggested as well, that your "consciousness" is very similar to my "nothing" (the state of 
infinite, unbounded homogeneity)! If so, I agree that it is the foundation of all reality. But then we still need a theory of 
how, exactly, the nothingness or consciousness comes to give rise to individual minds, and the worlds they construct, 
and how they relate to one another, what laws govern them, etc. Which is to say, we still need fundamental physics and 
cognitive science. And the tricky part is that we need them in some unified form that doesn't quite exist yet. 
That point has become really important to me lately - that mind and universe, subject and object, are two sides 
of a coin, and that it's impossible to understand the true nature of one without understanding the nature of the other. 
And the epiphany I've come to is that the only way to unite physics and cognitive science is to formulate them both in 
first person. It's the mistaken idea that reality is describable in third person that leads to the measurement problem in 
quantum mechanics and the hard problem in cognitive science. Recasting both fields in first person clears up so many 
conceptual difficulties, and allows us to see how the two are profoundly intertwined. First person physics is a physics 
where everything is relative to the core (the world built of relations, not things) and the quantum wavefunction can 
equally be said to describe the state of the world or the state of the observer, since they are the same thing! First person 
cognitive science rejects the idea that the brain "in here" creates mental representations of the world "out there," and 
instead sees mind and world as co-creating one another through a process of dynamic self-organization. I think there are 
really important and inspiring steps being taken in each of these fields toward this first person goal.l'm very excited by it 
all :-) 
Anyway...another ramble...I hope all is well on your end! 
All the best, 
Amanda 
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Deepak Chopra 
<mailto > wrote: 
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/chopra/article/If-Reality-isn-t-Na-ve-We-Shouldn-t-Be-11816979.php 
<http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/chopra/article/lf-Reality-isn-t-Na-ve-We-Shouldn-t-Be-11816979.php> 
<http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/chopra/article/If-Reality-isn-t-Na-ve-We-Shouldn-t-Be-11816979.php> 
If Reality isn't Naive, We Shouldn't Be, Either <http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/chopra/article/lf-Reality-isn-t-Na-ve-We-
Shouldn-t-Be-11816979.php> 
www.sfgate.com <http://www.sfgate.com> 
The second version, known as scientific realism, also relies on the senses but in a more sophisticated fashion-when the 
eyes tell us that the sun rises in the East, science steps in with the actual facts of astronomy. (...J breaking down a piece 
of wood, a grain of salt, or a chunk of uranium down into finer and finer particles, until you reach the mysterious domain 
of quantum mechanics isn't remotely the same as describing reality "in here," which is governed by the mind. There has 
never been the slightest proof that the basic chemical components of the brain can think, feel, or have experience. L.) 
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it's extremely naive to assume such a thing•and yet neuroscience insists upon it. Naïve realism and scientific realism 
agree with this proposition, but they have plumped for the wrong candidate, forcing physical "things" to create mind 
when that is obviously impossible. Imagine what it was like as a child to discover that the black specks of ink on a page 
were a code for language, and by learning to read this 
2013 Costa Del Mar Road 
Carlsbad, CA 92009 
Chopra Foundation <http://www.choprafoundation.org> <http://www.choprafoundation.org> 
Jiyo <http://www.jiyo.com> <http://jiyo.com> <http://jiyo.com> 
Chopra Center for Wellbeing <http://www.chopra.com> <http://chopra.com> <http://chopra.com> 
<http://www.jiyo.com> 
discoveringyourcosmicself.com <http://www.discoveringyourcosmicself.com> 
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