For qualia to arise, you need to both individuate from “Universal Consciousness” and also make partitions within you. This causes a kind of double universal Yin-Yang of oneness and separation in superposition. If God/Ultimate Reality/Multiverse is like a superposition of all possible qualia values at once in a way that they cancel out to a sort of “nothingness“, then to create an individual being, God/Ultimate Reality/Etc. needs to form a partition within itself. It allows one part of itself to witness blue so that another part can witness yellow, because if it were to witness both at the same time they would cancel out and reform into God/Ultimate Reality/etc.

Thus, for you to experience anything at all, you must in a way be interdependent with (/be the complement of/) specks of qualia that collectively add up to your experiential complement. They imply you and you imply them. And more so, this is also happening within yourself. The fact is, you can experience the left and right side of your visual field “at once”. But how? Seriously, how is this possible? If the “Screen of Consciousness” worked as a kind of camera with a point-like aperture, then the witness of your experience would have zero information. Points collapse information – the aperture needs to have a certain size. Or are you the screen on which the image is projected? But if so, then how are the various pixels simultaneously aware of each other?

Experiences are like Indra’s Net: every part is in a deep sense witnessing every other part. Like a house of mirrors. It is both “many” and “one” at the same time. And if you were to actually get rid of your internal distinctions, you’d “experience” a cessation (a moment where you completely disappear). With much intrigue, such cessations are often preceded by rainbow effects and white light phenomena – whether in deep meditation, mystical experiences of union with the divine, or at the peak of the effects catalyzed by unitive compounds like 5-MeO-DMT. This suggests to me that as consciousness approaches complete dissolution, both its internal knots and external boundaries unravel simultaneously (cf. cancelation of topological defects), until the very topology of being itself becomes trivial.

You need inner separation to be anything at all.

You as a moment of experience are thus both interdependent with “external” qualia that form your complement, while also internally requiring divisions within your own oneness to have information content in an Indra’s Net kind of way. Thus I now see reality as a strange Yin-Yang where on the one hand there is unity within the separation of individuals, and on the other hand there is separation within the unity of moments of experience.

Oneness and multiplicity don’t only co-arise – they are constitutively interdependent at their very root.