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emptiness (far reaches) [stub/​scratch]:

I wouldn't exactly call emptiness "far reaches," but I'm adding it here for completeness. It's something that can be kinda intellectually understood pretty quickly, and I think one can get more and more of a hint of taste pretty early, and then maybe something unmistakeable as such (or not; it's ok) pretty soon, too.

But it is something that sort of has to be "brought" or "found" everywhere, and that takes time and even like 10,000+ hours in there will be more! There are maybe some qualitatively different aspects that will be encountered over time.

Some pithy things that might or might not be particularly phenomenologically evocative:

No referential or conceptual essence anywhere (but there's still a there, there, or is there cf. nebulosity)

Some pithy things that might be more phenomenologically evocative:

Something like what was previously experienced as territory comes to be experienced as is "in fact" map, as representation.

(Importantly, it's worth emphasizing that this goes way, way, way beyond intellectual understanding. Like I read about the map//​territory distinction a gazillion years ago and was like "yeah, that's super useful and helpful and important" but there's a deeper more direct thing.)

(And further/​alternatively there's still weird paradoxes and philosophical issues, here. The map/​territory distinction is itself sort of a stepping-stone or toy. Fundamental dualistic issues and stuff.)

Anyway, whole swaths of seemingly “that’s just how it is, ‘out there’” sometimes become "this could be otherwise." cf. "modal slack"* or sometimes "fully evaporate." All in all what’s left is more and more “provisional,” held lightly, all things being equal and seen as “fundamentally” “nebulous” all things being equal.

See also David Chapman's "meaningness" material (see bibliography).

* not coined by me

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