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If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The psi-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts.

— 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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