@lsusr As someone who experienced enlightenment, I am curious about your thoughts on axiology. Do you think that there can, at least hypothetically, be a world with conscious beings that is better than a completely empty world? You can imagine this world to be as good as you want and you can fill out the details in any way you want.
To clarify: I do not claim that I have experienced enlightenment. Just awakening, stream entry, etc.
A plane of existence that does not interact with conscious beings is a priori unobservable, because there would be no one to observe it. In that way, world without conscious beings is value-equivalent to no world at all. In my opinion, there is positive value in the world I live in. That said, it is possible to imagine worlds with negative value too. This isn’t much related to Buddhism or special insight. It’s just philosophy.
@lsusr As someone who experienced enlightenment, I am curious about your thoughts on axiology. Do you think that there can, at least hypothetically, be a world with conscious beings that is better than a completely empty world? You can imagine this world to be as good as you want and you can fill out the details in any way you want.
To clarify: I do not claim that I have experienced enlightenment. Just awakening, stream entry, etc.
A plane of existence that does not interact with conscious beings is a priori unobservable, because there would be no one to observe it. In that way, world without conscious beings is value-equivalent to no world at all. In my opinion, there is positive value in the world I live in. That said, it is possible to imagine worlds with negative value too. This isn’t much related to Buddhism or special insight. It’s just philosophy.