infinite composition is impossible, no matter how far down you go, at the end there must be a structure that cannot be broken apart, cannot be divided, that is one within itself.
you can call it a monolith, the absolute, the fabric of the unlverse, or the most fundamental law. the name changes but the necessity does not.
evverything that is composite rests on something more basic than itself. this chain cannot go on forever. in the end there must be monolith/foundation/structure/rule.
we keep searching for this monolith outside, further down. we go beneath the atom, we look into quantum fields, we chase more fvndamental particles, more fundamental structures. as if that monolith were hidden somewhere in a depth we have not yet reached. yet the only real oneness we have ever directly and immediately touched is the nonduality of experience, consciousness.
consciousness can appear fragmented, it can feel scattered, it can even seem divided in certain states. but there is still a oneness that lives that fragmentation, that scatteredness. without that oneness, there would be no such thing as a "part". so the apparent division does not cancel the underlying oneness. on the contrary, it presupposes it.
the point that goes unnoticed is this. we are not separate beings who have stepped outside the monolith and are examining it from a distance.
we are inside the monolith. we are the monolith itself. consciousness is the monolith, and we are that consciousness.while we chase the indivisible structure out there, we fail to see that we are already inside it, that we are identical with it.
trying to break the physical world down into more fundamental parts is a pursuit of oneness/foundation. but oneness is not something that will be found at the end of the process of division. unity / foundation / oneness is what must already be there for any kind of division to be possible in the first place. and the place where we know that unity most directly is our own experience.
the indivisible structure we keep searching for out there is already present in the very nature of our own experience. we just don’t realize it.
even if we were completely separate, individual consciousnesses with no connection to any higher single consciousness, that would change nothing.
each one of them would still be a monolith in itself.
for a brain in the physical world to produce consciousness, it would have to be a genuine
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