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If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.

— Erwin Schrödinger Mind and Matter (1958)

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The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real.

Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind...

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

My View of the World (1951)

Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular.

Sensations and thoughts do not belong to the "world of energy."

Nature and the Greeks (1954)

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