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The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

— 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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