The whole is greater than the sum of its parts?
Identity, individuality
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But that's not a scientific fact, that's a scientific premise, and in scientific (and Advaita) discourse it has its adherents and its adversaries.
You have nailed your flag to that particular mast, but you offer no compelling reason (nor could you, nor should I ask you to) why others should necessarily agree.
From a vert weak position vis-a-vis Advaita, I took this off a search engine:
"Advaita teaches that our true identity (Atman) is not this limited persona, but pure, universal consciousness (Brahman) ... "
From the somewhat stronger Catholic position, I would say 'yes' to that statement, along the lines of the ability of individual consciousness that becomes so open and transparent to universal consciousness that, to use a well-worn analogy, the 'uncreated light' of the universal shines in and through the countenance of the individual, without the loss of individuality as something that transcends but undergirds the perceived persona.
I find a great metaphysical insight in the Rastarfari "I and I" – the scholar E. E. Cashmore said: "I and I is an expression to totalise the concept of oneness... When he's addressing a brethren as himself, he says "I am I" — as being the oneness of two persons. So God is within all of us and we're one people in fact... "I and I" means that God is in all humanity. The bond of Ras Tafari is the bond of God, of human." (Cashmore, Rastaman: The Rastafarian Movement in England, 1st ed., 1979, London: George Allen & Unwin. p.67 – language rendered gender neutral by myself).
"Advaita teaches that our true identity (Atman) is not this limited persona, but pure, universal consciousness (Brahman) ... "
From the somewhat stronger Catholic position, I would say 'yes' to that statement, along the lines of the ability of individual consciousness that becomes so open and transparent to universal consciousness that, to use a well-worn analogy, the 'uncreated light' of the universal shines in and through the countenance of the individual, without the loss of individuality as something that transcends but undergirds the perceived persona.
I find a great metaphysical insight in the Rastarfari "I and I" – the scholar E. E. Cashmore said: "I and I is an expression to totalise the concept of oneness... When he's addressing a brethren as himself, he says "I am I" — as being the oneness of two persons. So God is within all of us and we're one people in fact... "I and I" means that God is in all humanity. The bond of Ras Tafari is the bond of God, of human." (Cashmore, Rastaman: The Rastafarian Movement in England, 1st ed., 1979, London: George Allen & Unwin. p.67 – language rendered gender neutral by myself).