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You have an illusion that you have direct influence. But the reality is you can replace the EM with a rubber duck and the engineers would still build the product.

On the other hand replace the engineers with a rubber duck and there is no product.

That sounds like Amazon to me.

What does that means?

Buddhist would say - There is just changing patterns, sensations and thoughts that create an illusion that there is a sheep outside and seperate you watching it. In reality there is just emptiness.

The button is historically called as enlightenment, moksha, liberation etc. But it's hard to attain.

Maybe it likes all the drama and want it to forget who really it is? Like how we play games or watch movies?

Or maybe the forgetfulness is a side effect of creation and not intended.

Maybe it has no intent.

I am not sure. I can only guess as an ego by referring to things I saw in the past.

I don't think the ego accepts this easily.

I don't think the ego has any intent. I think it's a collection of memories and emotions that you have accumulated over the past. Like a cache that is outdated.

Imagine your knowingness as an information stream of images (memories included), smell, feelings, sound etc.

For most people the information stream has the ego dominating.

When the ego is strong people identify themselves with the idea of them based on their memories, beliefs, culture etc.

When the ego goes away I think you are left with who you really are which when you experience feels eternal and permanent and is a placeholder in which everything appears.

I had an experience where I knew(not believe) I was the kind of the screen in which everything appears(including the human body). Lasted for a couple of hours.

After the experience all the religious teaching started to make sense instantly.

I think the thing is Self, Soul, Consciousness, Atman, Reality, Simulation, Screen or whatever you call it.

It's what all the world religions point to.

Though teachings has been made so hard to grasp by culture and dogma.

It's something you(the ego) cannot know without experiencing it. You can try to believe it. But the ego will not let you.

> . I always thought it was about making our lives better

That's Engineering not Physics.

> Do we care about "real" reality if we can, more or less, make sense of some of its manifestations through our senses?

we can - Who is the we?

our senses - Whose senses? What experience the sensory input?