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We cannot, however, manage to make do with such old, familiar, and seemingly indispensable terms as "real" or "only possible"; we are never in a position to say what really is or what really happens, but we can only say what will be observed in any concrete individual case.

— Erwin Schrödinger

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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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