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Why the ancient Indian’s
Intuition of the Līlā of Māyā Was Right — and Why It Wasn’t Mystical
at All By Victor Langheld The
ancient Indian intuition that the world is Līlā
— a play — woven by Māyā —
illusion — is usually dismissed today as poetic mysticism. But read through
the lens of Finn’s Procedure Monism + simulation thesis, it turns out to be a
structurally accurate diagnosis made without the mathematics. 1. Tokens in, worlds out All communication
across any boundary is digital
(quantised): spikes,
photons, packets, tin cans, pulses. Nothing
continuous, meaningful, or “world-like” ever crosses into a system. Yet what
appears inside (the
observer = receiver) is continuous: space, colour, time, body, identity.
This is only possible if the receiving system converts discrete tokens into local
analogue displays. That is
exactly what a simulation is. 2. Māyā as analogue
rendering Māyā is traditionally translated
as “illusion,” but that translation is misleading. It is not error. It is appearance-generation. In modern
terms: Māyā = the
system’s analogue renderer. It is the
function that fabricates the world you live inside from non-world-like
inputs. So the
world is not false — it is constructed. 3. Līlā as
procedural output Why play? Because
the system is not presenting reality — it is performing it. The
colours, the selves, the dramas, the heavens and hells are not imported. They
are enacted by the constraints of the confinement space. Reality
is not (revealed). It is staged (‘as if’). That is Līlā. 4. The fatal overreach Where the
Indians went wrong was not in calling the world illusion, but in promoting
the renderer to divinity. They
intuited the simulation perfectly, but then mistook the function for a
substance: If the world is rendered, the renderer must be a
universal consciousness. That was the
category error. The
renderer is not a cosmic mind.
5. Final synthesis They were
right about this much: The world
you experience is not the world-in-itself, indeed its source. So yes —
the universe you live in really is Māyā’s
Līlā. Not
because it is mystical. The druid said:
“Life’s a game to be played for real” Token-hood under
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