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It is impossible to transcend the Bubbleverse theoretically, since every entity we can think of outside the Bubbleverse necessarily becomes a part of the Bubbleverse. The only way of breaking the seemingly unbreakable walls of the Bubbleverse is faith. Faith is the negation of both logic and empirical evidence, yet it brings the Bubbleverse under the cover of a larger whole and thus gives a person the meaning of life. Faith has no rational grounds; it comes from within the Self. In order to prove having faith a person has to do the act of transcendence by breaking away with selfishness and sacrifice his or her wellbeing to a higher cause. Psychological experiments suggest that only a small proportion of children and adults go for the transcendence.
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Subbotsky, E. (2020). Transcending the Bubbleverse. In: The Bubble Universe: Psychological Perspectives on Reality. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49008-9_15
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