Does nondual awareness reveal the structure of reality or merely the plasticity of self-models?

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 "question_id": "q:nondual-awareness-reality-or-plasticity",
 "question": "Does nondual awareness reveal the structure of reality or merely the plasticity of self-models?",
 "tags": [
  "consciousness",
  "meditation",
  "nondual",
  "self-model"
 ],
 "status": "underdetermined",
 "confidence": 0.35,
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 "best_answer": "Metzinger's minimal phenomenal experience model treats nondual reports as evidence of what conscious experience can look like when high-level self-models are attenuated, not as evidence for metaphysical monism. Trika and contemplative traditions interpret them as recognition of the true nature of reality. The phenomenological data alone cannot distinguish these interpretations — both explain the reports equally well.",
 "parent_question": null,
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  "q:minimal-phenomenal-experience",
  "q:recognition-event-in-time"
 ],
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 "last_updated": "2026-07-26",
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