Johnny R. O'Neill
1 min readDec 2, 2021

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So, this is a pipe…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images#/media/File:MagrittePipe.jpg

Out of which I think you might be smoking something!

Sorry!

The image of a thing is not the thing. The idea of a thing is not the thing. The concept of the unimaginable is not the unimaginable. And, like the feeling of a unicorn, the feeling of nothing does not exist. 'Nothing' does not exist.

Just my take.

It's about physics: what is it to 'feel'? We feel—via eyes, ears etc., including the brain (neurons interacting), and gut (stuff happening)—transfers of energy that build into an awareness of ourselves and the world around us. It may seem at times that we are 'aware' of nothing, but what we are really aware of is a relative lack of something.

It's like 'cold.' There is no such thing. We don't feel 'the cold.' We feel a relative, or unexpected, lack of heat, and call it cold.

Take care!

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Johnny R. O'Neill
Johnny R. O'Neill

Written by Johnny R. O'Neill

Driving the notion that awareness is a creative endeavor. Somebody has to.

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