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Right, that's more in line with the way I view duality. Lately I've actually came up with what I feel is an even more general pattern. And because it's 1am, I'
by KennyCason 9y ago
Right, that's more in line with the way I view duality.
Lately I've actually came up with what I feel is an even more general pattern. And because it's 1am, I'll ramble a bit. :)
Typically we like to say things like:
Something <-> Nothing
True <-> False
etc
I'm thinking a better pattern may be:
Something <-> Not Something
True <-> Not True
Which yields the pattern "A <-> Not A"
The next step is that Everything follows such a relationship, such that you could conclude the Absolute duality of "Absolute/All <-> Not Absolute/All"
An interpretation of this may be that: The universe must exist absolutely out of logical necessity as absolutely not existing requires the definition of absolute existence.
This means past, present, future, all states, all things, all possibilities, exist. There was no beginning and end everything just "is".
This leaves many problems and many things to resolve such as, "if the universe just "is", how is it that I feel the sense of happeningness?". But hey, "Happen <-> Not Happen". They both most be reconciled. A metaphor to reconcile this is to take the static state of all knowledge in your brain as the totality of your brain states. Dreaming, or viewing these different brain states in different orders yields visions where things are happening, even though at rest each piece of knowledge/memory are just static pieces of information.
There are many other problems to reconcile, but this is my current line of thought. After spending my whole life fighting battles that emerge with hierarchical, cause-effect logic, I had to go off-roading a bit.
Of course, now matter how far we take it. You can with a bit of over simplification, sum your brain up to neurons being "connected or not connected" as the base of everything you know. Which means the limit of the description of the logic of the universe is comically limited based on the structure of your brain. I.e. It seems that we can never self-confirm beyond this play on words. I call this the cosmic joke.
Good night. Please forgive my poorly formed, probably not scientific, and brief midnight thoughts :)
- goldenkey 9y agoTake a drug that makes you feel like you might never be the same... a fear inducing one like LSD, mushrooms, or heavy cannabis. And imagine that your very reason for being is to uncover such. And if you get terminated somehow, you fail on two fronts. Maybe every moment in time, every brain state, is simple digits in a long string of a real number. Your whole life..was just computing a unique number. Maybe every person or entity who ever is conscious, computes a number too. What about the set of all those numbers?? Is that the universal set..of all knowledge..of all entropy..of all phenomena?? Is that set of the physicality of experience directly isomorphic to some slices of its members..or a subset..an abstract sense of itself?? Cohomology / homotopy links consciousness to a recursive transformation of itself? Maybe the link between physicality and information is consciousness. Only consciousness provides a single player universe -- and thus provides the mechanism for axiom of choice..grabbing the totality of experience as a piece of data. Without internal experience, we must resort to AC and somehow look at a living creatures' external experience in order to derive the real number their life computes...nonsense..it is not sound. So consciousness really does serve as some sort of bridge. The totality of all consciousness provides the same complexity as the totality of the 3rd person objective universe from start to finish. We have two data sets that encode the same thing. Linked by consciousness. What is the rub?
- KennyCason 9y agoIt was actually a couple psychedelic experiences that allowed me to "get over the hump" and "see" the universe the a larger, deeper, internal lens. It also allowed me to reflect and understand myself in a way that I found to be extremely valuable. While the experience itself was simply beyond description, ineffable, the single most enlightening moment of my life, it was the following years of reflection on it and everything around it that start putting things into place. I remember one particular thought of how "real" the mind space actually is. We tend to think of the perceived reality as very physical, when in fact the mind space is able to simulate the same feeling of physicality. It really makes one question if the difference between mind and physicality is even worth distinguishing.
- goldenkey 9y agoRight but that link between physicality and mind _is_ consciousness..the perception of qualia. So though they may be caused by the same thing, the process itself is one to be looked at carefully.
- xaedes 9y agoSo, consciousness is a hologram of the universe? I can imagine it like that. I often describe consciousness/me/you/entities/etc as dynamic lenses of the universe. Something (like information) goes in from all directions and the lens transform that into reaction. I think you could actually extend that view to entities like atoms. Hm, every point is a lens in itself?