the secular spirit: what this is, who we are, and how to live

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- intro/meta
- The Secular Spirit: An argument for a physical soul, the unity of all things, and the implications therefore
- write. for however long. no matter what. just write. and then edit! edit some other time. you can extract out good chunks, or organize them! tag them by subject or what have you.
- i want my book to have a form, a narrative, a story to tell. i can do this by first describing what it is i want to write, and then filling that out to write it. then edit. so what is my goal. see beyond yourself. so, three sections right? 1. what we are: start from the beginning and a single particle. grow from there. sprinkle in some space and time. end at self-aware complex life, still described only in the abstract, with perhaps a concrete example here or there. use this as a base for the argument made in 2. you and i are one in the same, then all of the earth, then the whole universe. name this thing god, and schrodiger said god ripples. back this up with science. 3. is implications. go read a book about hume. What does this say about religion?
- long list of quotes at first, including 'how strange it is to be anything at all', einstein quote about illusion of time, etc.
- for my mother, who loved me too much. for my father, who suffered for his sins
- none of what follows is true, but, like a model, it might be useful
- first level: simple english, minimal physics terms
- try and make it so the main text only uses the simplified winky words
- Make the secular spirit website look exactly like a book pretty sure I've had this idea before
- put a disclaimer saying that you as far as you are concerned that everything that you have written here is not true until agreed upon by a rough majority of our collective consensus reality or at least among the relevant communities and then accept get her issues and pull requests for scientific or other errors
- build footnote writer with html anchors and links
- what we are
- timeline
- bb to flash
- in the beginning there was energy. at least near the beginning. we know there was energy a few seconds after the beginning, solely existing as a thick soup of isolated points of potential separated by brief gaps filled with the ripples of their wake. we know there was energy a blink after the beginning, and are pretty sure of what that looked like as well. but the beginning itself we simply cannot say what was there. but most likely, it was energy.
- so yeah, phase transition! first there is god/dark energy then there is god+grav, then there is god+grav+selec, because it is a further splitting. 1->split->2->split->3 ?
- entroenergy 1 to entrograv 2 to entropic gravitational strong 3
- then there was the second force. no, first dark energy, then there was a difference. dark energy, gravity? gauge force, first force? second force? same time?
- maybe it's a piece of paper, you drawing a line, splitting gravitation from... dark energy? and as you are drawing this line, there's a split! two lines, suddenly creating three spaces, three different things. dark energy, gravity and electro strong? (context: phase transitions)
- wikipedia: In everyday terms, as the universe cools, it becomes possible for the quantum fields that create the forces and particles around us, to settle at lower energy levels and with higher levels of stability. In doing so, they completely shift how they interact. Forces and interactions arise due to these fields, so the universe can behave very differently above and below a phase transition. For example, in a later epoch, a side effect of one phase transition is that suddenly, many particles that had no mass at all acquire a mass (they begin to interact differently with the Higgs field), and a single force begins to manifest as two separate forces. Assuming that nature is described by a Grand Unified Theory, the grand unification epoch began with a phase transitions of this kind, when gravitation separated from the universal combined gauge force. This caused two forces to now exist: gravity, and an electrostrong interaction. There is no hard evidence yet, that such a combined force existed, but many physicists believe it did. The physics of this electrostrong interaction would be described by a so-called grand unified theory (GUT). The grand unification epoch ended with a second phase transition, as the electrostrong interaction in turn separated, and began to manifest as two separate interactions, called the strong and electroweak interactions.
- In the beginning there was energy. Before there were many things, there was just one thing. physicists call this one thing energy, and theologians call it god. this one thing became two, then many, then billions, then googols, then uncountably more, possibly even an infinite number. these different things, just about everything, form patterns, there are small patterns, big ones, beautiful patterns and terrible ones. but each is incredible in its own way. Ultimately, if you look close enough, each of us, these messy blobs emerging from the earth, dancing among themselves then spreading again out among everything else, are location-specific waves “wavelets” following relatively simple patterns, simple enough to put into short-ish math equations. Ultimately, you me, us, the earth, is made out of the whole thing.
- there was a bang, a firework, a bright flash of light. everything since then has been the embers cooling off in the sky. a speck of ash, floating near one of these embers, grows warm, allowing its constituent parts to begin molding and flowing and combining into different things. soon, on the surface of this oozing ash circling an ember floating in the night sky, there appears to be some sort of flowing taking on a life of its own.
- n the beginning there simply was, a presence, an energy above and beyond light and matter. A simple oneness, devoid of feature beyond its potential.
- “Times before before the end of inflation do not follow the same timeline”
- After the single presence there first came difference a something different from that, here to there, this and that, not simply one thing, but two things
-Symmetry breaking
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe#Very_early_universe
- Gauge force
- The other, the something other than oneness became gravity soon after, came the strong--at this point the one is a felt force in space, a second feeling of pull or push, and a third: gravity, strong, ‘electroweak’
- Then electromagneticsm separates from weak, and there become the four fundamental fources of nature
- At this point, the universe began to be inflating to a much larger size, a number with 78 zeroes behind it. Or around 78 depending on your unit of length
- It’s not so much that space became bigger, but the speed of light (the speed of causality), the arrow of time, a degree of freedom released at each event spacetime point that is and ever will be
- And the velocity is what was expanded (or shrunk?) at one moment, each point in spacetime felt an incredible pressure, a repultion to everthing around it.
- After space had grown, the energy in it at every point becomes very thinly spread out, allowing another force to push out of the potenial an event with a vibration across all forces, but mostly in one like a spherical pluck of a string, sent off some direction. There were vibrations that matched (quark anti quark) in some property, and different in one, like looking in an upsidedown mirror, as well as gluons, which travel at the speed of light? While the quarks should have mass. Yes, but quarks at are at an energy level where mass is not able to yet grab glob onto it
- The universe is a fractal, where our forces branched off, extending like tendrils into what may as well be complex-valued real-valued dimensions beyond idea. Math has to come from somewhere.
- The nature of things
- Emergence is not just a simplification of a system it is a simplification that emerges when you expand into a higher into a larger scale of space for example modeling an atom as a point particle see if that's the case
- The rules for the number of electrons in different orbital shells is just spherical harmonics the way that two atoms fit together is when spherical harmonics can overlap
- flash to now
- right now there is energy as well. everything we see and feel is energy. but it looks like many different things.
- the only way we know what happened before we existed, is because we know what is happening now, and are able to compare that to what is happening now, i.e. a short time after. we can say that before earth existed, everything was closer together. a time traveling astronaut would see all the stars and galaxies we see today, but they'd be closer. and as a consequence, things would be brighter and hotter. it was also a lot dustier. and billions of years before that
- particles -> atoms -> compounds -> amino acids -> proteins -> structures (viruses, single celled organisms talk about the green orb!?) -> cells (tiny blob with organs, don't use the name cell, use the water blob analogy, dedicated funtional parts (organelles), stem cells for all creatures? moss? cells morphing into different shapes to serve different functions? -> fish (short sight, maybe talk about eyes?) -> lizard (land motors?) -> mammals (lenghtening of time to think, putting evolutionary pressure on accumulating thoughts that can lengthen survival rate) -> humans (start reading selfish gene)
- the rapid expansion of space is just the exponential increase in entropy. what would the slow down correspond to? the appearance of a horizon? does it speed up, then slow down, then speed up again, because the expansion is always there, the dark energy, but red shift is an illusion, in terms of timescale? huge growth, then horizon, then a just further, ever increasing growth in entropy, which will look like redshift just because it's always increasing, even where our region blew out, bounded by the earth's or human's location in space. system next door? regions of your spacetime will never reach earth (some will)
- in the beginning there was energy. no particular kind, no particular place, but close to the beginning in time. a spread out substance, spanning as far as you can see in all directions. but nothing you can see, for light does not exist. nothing you can feel, because a force does not exist. and nothing you can hear, because spots of stuff through which waves of stuff push their motion, do not yet exist. they are all one in the same, an energy, a potential for ever more complex things to happen, smoothly spread as far as the eye could see.
- were you able to feel the temperature outside your suit, you would notice that it is cooling down. would also notice, were you able to, that everything was getting farther away from you. indeed, no matter where you moved to through spacet or stime, it seemed like everything was was getting farther away from that spot. or event. that observation.
- The story from the atom, while more complex in its details, can still be summed up rather simply . the atoms, because they were not evenly spread out, began to attract one another, merging their bumps, their pockets, their indentations together until the forces inside the atoms push one another away . The atoms continue to glob together, pushing on one another more and more, the center of the matter-glob becoming more and more compressed . if one were to continually bend a metal rod, the joint would become warm . this is because the matter being manipulated is being fed excess energy, and this energy comes out of the matter as heat . the center of the matter glob became so hot from the compression that the center of the atoms were able to get close enough to fuse to one another . this tiny globbing together (matter likes to glob) releases a pent up energy shared between the two tiny globs, like seeing loved ones again after some length of time . this initiates an explosion, but because there is just so much stuff, the explosion seems to never stop! there is so much stuff, that the explosion cannot go anywhere, so it sits there fusing energy points together . this creates bigger, different kinds of composite points, which are able to combine together in new, interesting ways . although the explosion is large, it has an approximate boundary, where the walls of fire meet empty space . Those atoms which were near the surface of the fireball during the first moments of the explosion were jettisoned outward in all directions, filling space with a very fine dust of complex matter . this dust, just like the atoms, composite points, attracted one another, eventually forming macroscopic globs of matter . some of these clumps contain the tiny globs called water, comprising of two smaller A points and one larger B point water is the third most abundant molecule in the universe 1. H2 2. H3+ 3. H20 a big blob of matter with enough water, and with enough light from a nearby explosion, and the heat from all the atoms smushed together in the center, that blob (what now resembles rocks) will begin to grow a mold . the porous constituents of these matter globs become ever more elaborate under the pressures of competition and energy to spend . the mold soon spreads out from the water to cover nearly all the exposed rocks as well . wild and exotic blips of sustained chemical reactions being held together by ever larger, more more complex braids of energy points pulling one another along through spacetime. rising from the ground, taking flight for a moment or two, then again returning and spreading out to where it first came from .
- now back to bb
- meet in middle?
- scales
- the more space a system has, the longer it takes for that system to change . be it a molecule or cell or planet around the sun . as the objects grow bigger, the longer it takes for things to happen . an interaction between two atoms takes place in a very small space , and so takes very little time for the system to evolve . whereas a a blob of matter called an " adenosine triphosphate " takes longer to get from one place to another inside a cell, and bumps into other blobs along the way . it takes time for two organelles to communicate with one another, as opposed to two atoms .
- also because there's more space look into the wavelength of a chair for a cow and figure out what mass it passes the plunk length The time it takes for a social system takes longer both because it takes place over a longer period of space time or I guess FaceTime proper time is always the same but I don't know I guess I'll collective shared time data day life really only usually matters from milliseconds to seconds but all these shapes are more or less arbitrary but happened to work together different molecules combined to make new molecules but they fit together in certain orientations and making different shapes these patterns grow the shapes and objects involve more complicated but the shapes are still more or less arbitrary we give them names like organelles or humans but the shape is just a shape that works and the farther down you look the fewer and fewer shapes you find or simpler shapes if the shapes get simpler because space is much smaller and so the ways they fit together the number of ways becomes smaller like the limitations of the atoms where the shape is very restricted to particle interactions which are moralist just well I guess couplings between different energy fields different ways that energy can be shaped into
- the planck mass is a known value, somewhere around a bacterium? a third of an eyelash . likewise, systems that are larger than ourselves take longer for things to happen . for example , a social system like a small town where everyone knows everyone else, and gossip runs amok. like ATP being sent from one organelle to another, it takes time for gossip to move from person to person . first it takes time to convey the spoken message, then it takes time to find someone else and speak the gossip to them . we find our self somewhere between the ATP and the gossip, moving not quite so fast nor quite so slow . our day-to-day life really only operates at the lower bound milliseconds and at the upper seconds(?) the longest amount of time that the brain conceptualizes the present moment before it becomes working memory is that near a second?
- as the scale of interactions grew, giving rise to larger and larger blobs of matter, they developed certain shapes with certain electrochemical properties . these shapes are more or less arbitrary, but what matters is that two shapes can interact in some way . this potato shaped blob of proteins can fit together with another banana blob very well, and in fact can form a repeating pattern . these arbitrary blobs glob together and eventually form, again, a singular object, to which we give the name "organelle" or "human" . likewise, starting at our scale and looking farther down, farther into a space, the fewer and fewer variety of shapes you will encounter . insert anecdote about plants on the other side of the earth . at our our scale, the variety of shapes is immense (a chair, a car, a different kind of chair, and so on), but the scale limits the number of things, shapes, that can be formed . after all, you cannot fit an object larger than a space into that space . there is a box where only microbes can fit inside it .
- there are two kinds of points of energy, those points that can sit on top one another, and those that cannot.[bosons/fermions] when two points come close together, but are unable to overlap, they repel one another(?quarks are bosons, what happens when two... two particles enter a space and one particle leaves . the combined ripples of their energized constituents bubble through to a different kind of quantum field / particle . ?different kinds of fields depending on probabilities? many worlds holds that all combinations of all quantum fields (energy waves) are emitted ) oh, but yes, when two energy points combine and maintain a relatively steady spacial extent... then they have a spacial extent! there is now a shape where previously there was only two point . two quarks, or an electron and a quark blob(nucleus) in a world where there is only one energy point, it doesn't matter which direction you travel . if you are that point, and you decide to go in some direction, it will be exactly the same as picking any other direction simply because there is nothing special about any particular point in that space, except the one where you are . when two energy points stuck together in an otherwise empty void, suddenly there becomes a special direction, a point on the inside shell of an invisible sphere. go head to that point and there is another particle . of course these are really just waves, where every combination of every location ripples outwards along the brane in beautiful recursive patterns, an infinite-dimensional ink dropped into water, watching the ripples spread itself below its wake yadda yadda evolutionary pressures (or just the initial concentration of energy) cause bigger and bigger blobs to grow, being molded over time with the others, until maybe one day two fit together really well, and just tend to stick! suddenly there are many of these bigger blobs of matter (energy point balls) and they, perhaps, just so happen to fit together and form some much larger structure . this process repeats from amino acids to so on and so forth
- each of these building blocks combines with others to create ever more complex structures, which, because by definition are larger, and it takes longer for lower blocks to navigate or interact with one another (check this idea) the strucures get more complicated, but the rate at which things happen (mixing chemicals -> separating dna -> making a baby or doing the dishes) takes longer and longer
- (DUPE AT HUMANITY TO EARTH) the pattern of rhodes with different turns and branches and lights and traffic flows are repeated patterns and those patterns might not be exact they might be statistical patterns in nature but lots of patterns are statistical for incense in a cell the different proteins giggling around in water are much like a snow globe being shaken filled with a wide variety of proteins and other molecules and the system operates probabilistically or statistically in how not in how 1 ATP molecule loaded spring it's not about that HP molecule tripper scene from one organelle to another but rather getting enough of those molecules from one organelle to another just like the flow of cars on roads stretching and creeping and growing at a fractal pattern
- you are a fractal . it doesn't feel like it, but over time and across humanity, you are a point in a ever-blossoming forth of endless blossoming of a single pattern . remember that our sense of time is not priviledged . a tree lives much longer than a human, and of course there are differences in experience, but we are not special . rather, we are just as special as that tree . the shortest possible time is minutely small, and the duration of The Universe is monsterously large . probably need to elaborate and or clean up this idea . but over long enough timescales, and over all of Terra, you are a tiny meandering blip of energy, unique among all but so similar all the same . time sped up would show blips sticking to and bouncing off the other blips in its vicinity . two blips that look like you embrace, and a third blip pops out that looks even more like the blips that made the blips that made you . this unique self-similarity permeates out to extended family, people in the community that look like you, strangers who look different, yet are still so much the same . variations on a patter, meditations on a piano piece where each key makes a different sound, and played together makes the most beautiful music that has ever existed . [meta]should scales be merged into what we are? or scales sorted through for relevant material? where do we put fractals?[/]
- it's all just patterns , whether it's the scale-like patterns composing a strand of hair, or bricks laid staggard in a wall , or the patterns that just so happen to be bigger than us , such as the number of people currently folding their arms in the shower , or carrying out some similar motion at approximately the same moment of time. how many people carry out this action in some region? hundreds of times ? thousands ? as the earth spins around its axis, a wave of people folding their arms in the shower is carried forward as people are awoken by the light and warmth of our star . the movement and motions of a particular make and model of car ( or even color ! ) also follows similar patterns, distributed across the surface of The Earth . Twirling in tiny eddies coming together with others into major arteries, only to pull away again driving back into the nooks and crannies of our pavement maze .
- All of these patterns are just locations or scales in a fractal just like a fractal you can pick and choose different locations blown up to different scales and you will observe different patterns but when you pull away you see that the patterns are continuously tumbling into larger ones or disintegrating into smaller
- That is how you lead into fractals from patterns or combine patterns fractals and scales patterns scales and fractals
- russian doll patterns
- very very early on, reality split into different forms of energy, and everything after has been the result of those energies forming spacial configurations of increasing size and complexity, taking longer for more complex patterns to play out
- An orbiting electron, a captured electric field energy, has a charge when it is captured. The reason electrons can pair up down is because the second one cancels out the first, it interacts, rotating, orbiting, vibrating in the same way except to cancel, but I guess the mass creates the necessity of further orbital levels?
- Atom ->Star ->More atoms -> Molecules/compounds -> Planets -> Life -> Replicators -> Genes -> Survival shells (bodies) -> (social) Conscousness
- compare and island City State to a cell where organelles represent perhaps different important buildings or locations on the island
- photosynthesis can be thought of the process of converting photons into little compressed chemical springs each holding a potential force waiting to be unlocked
- these tiny springs with small amounts of energy combined to form maybe some sort of scalene factor as energy is combined at sea so the more ATP you put into something the more energy it has and the more super structure is able to form
- patterns built out of patterns over and over again patterns build up patterns bit out of okay patterns built out of patterns built out of patterns building over and over again or whatever
- the larger a pattern, the longer it takes for the pattern to repeat or self-reference. this is because it takes a certain amount of time for energy (or information) to travel from one location to another. take for example the blob of matter that unzips DNA[1]technically called a "protein complex" looks like a donut , and spins around the strand of DNA at about the speed of a turbine engine. nearly all things taking place at the scale of DNA unzippers occur at a much greater pace than our day-to-day (1)experience of the passage of time. (2)lives. (develop syntax for, experiment with syntax for writer) this is the same case for scales greater than our selves. They occur much slower. our microscopic turbine spins faster than a ballerina spins faster than The Earth around The Sun(? is the sun also ourselves? no, the earth is much closer to who we are, but the stuff of not just life, but the fine molecular blobs(?) out of which the entire planet is built. but that is at a different scale) it takes dozens of hours for the moon to spin around The Earth. Terra. Tero. One way to explain this is to say things are simply farther away from each other. tiny things can move very quick, both because of their mass, but also the scale at which they operate. things simply happen faster. one elbow of a spinning ballerina is much closer to the other elbow than where Terra will be in 6 months. (good kid name) look into distances over which things occur. see if they scale exponentially
- oh, but yes, somewhere between the spin of a ballerina and the spin of The Earth, there is the spin of The Earth around Its axis, and the patterns that we make at this scale . we simply look like different things at different scales . take the space of a 1 millimeter cube, and take an average of what is at that scale of an entire human being, you will probably get some cube of tissue . it might be muscle or bone or blood vessels, but regardless it looks more or less like a repeating pattern of some kind of matter . at this scale we call it "tissue", but if you were to scale that 1mm cube up to a meter, you would see a 1mm pattern with the name "cells" (look into that scale) . repeat again and you see the same thing . matter organized into a pattern . this time with the name "protein" a series of sounds we make with the cavity named "mouth" ( blobs of matter shooting noises at each other ) scale again and it is atoms ( again, nail down these numbers ) organized into a pattern . at the atomic scale, the pattern is made of angles and distances between energy points, and how many little points can fit around the bigger points(little points have the assigned sound of "electron", and big points "nucleus") scale down even farther, and the patterns turn into those of waves . literal waves of energy .
- physics
- there is a long pattern in science, of finding out there is a lot more stuff than we thought. land then planets then stars, one galaxy, many galaxies. go into the cosmic landscape. now go meditate.
- is it accurate to say instead of many worlds, it's just one world (1, 100%) and we spread out in different ways
- the math ends up correct. this is survival bias, it is incorrect much more, but when it's correct it describes the world in ways that are initially strange, and then end up being correct. the equation describing how an electron behaves when it is alone (and not rippling around a nucleus) called the dirac equation, had two solutions, one for particles with -1 charge, and others for +1 charge--they were both solutions to the equation, numbers that fit the pattern, but we had only ever seen electrons, not positively charged "positrons". now we use positrons in PET scan machines. it predicted anti-matter and then we found it. the same story goes for black holes. the speed of light. spacetime. there is a conjecture in modern physics called ER = EPR, meaning these two papers about qm and gravity are deeply related. basically that spacetime is stiched together via microscopic wormholes. right now we know that we are a wave, describe classical state vs like drops of rain on the surface of a pond ripples and waves on something. not the water, the height of a wave is the field.
- there is one event in the wave in which I am typing a bit more slowly, or make a typo. there are events where i am getting up, or looking at my phone. if you superimpose all these actions onto one another, and all the wide variations you can literally think of, will be placed on top of one another, myself occupying a single entity, and yet trillions of versions of me, it will look like i am spreading out, almost like a drop of water spreading out after hitting the surface of water. but it's not just you spreading out, it's everyone else, the planet and the stars, all the way back to the ends of the universe, where those located events are from a long time ago. we can say this confidently, because we have discovered quantum mechanics. what is so amazing about physics, is that things that happen in our world, the reality we experience (or rather the shared experience we all agree upon) have relatively simple math equations to explain them, and over and over again, equations are found that can be transformed into two other equations, combining phenomena, things that happen, events, and remain a relatively simple equation! what isaac newton is big because he unified the equations of our world, and the whole world, the moon, planets and stars, he united us with what is huge. quantum mechanics, the work of many physicist, has united us with what is fundamental--the smallest, simplest building blocks that make up the entire world. most of classical mechanics (excluding general relativity) can be derived from equations of quantum mechanics. and quantum mechanics tells us that, while what we see are itty bitty specs/particles, what there really is, is a wave, where we are at a particular spot on that wave. we can know things about this wave, but we are limited in our knowledge. we can know how fast the wave if moving, rippling outwards, but not where we are on that wave. we can know how much energy this wave is carrying (drip or tsunami?), or we can know when exactly something happens, but not both. (check this). what we see is where we are in the wave, but what we see is not all that is there. what is there is a wave. talk about how replacing particles themselves with waves unites even more phenomena, separately having their own equations. then how gr doesn't fit in because, while quantum fields take place on the backdrop of relative spacetime, where everything is nice and straight, gr tells us that spacetime bends, stretches, smooshes, and this is currently where We are searching for an equation that can be turned into both those of qft and gr.
- we haven't seen the graviton because it might just be too heavy. heavy meaning the amount of "stuff" it has, not its density or gravitational force, though the graviton does feel a force to other 'massive' (mass-having) objects, like planets or particles or people, and the graviton does have a density. an electron has an amount of mass, and so does a graviton. but the graviton weighs much than the electron, and, because we have discovered that energy in its most general sense, and mass or "stuff" are the same thing. so to make a graviton, we have to put in a lot of energy. so we take a large amount of other massive particles, and throw them together as fast as we can. scratch graviton, start with massive particle, then use e=mcc to e/cc=m to explain photon and graviton (energy not mass?) check all this.
- it's all just a projection. what you are experiencing right now is the synthesis of two projections of light, hitting the 2d surface of the lens of your eye, focused onto a 2d array of photosensors. light blippers. blinking little eyes only seeing a certain wavelength or intensity. always a projection. we can only look at things in a smaller and smaller spherical shell surrounding a volume. the smaller you look, the less particles you look at, until eventually seeing only a few blips of energy enter or exit the sphere. we don't know what happens inside the sphere on which the blips were detected. (physicists pretend that everything happens and choose the most probable one) push enough particles into a space, and sometimes you can get one big heavy one out. the more we push in, the more particles we find. instead of particles on the surface of a sphere, they are ripples of energy, and our world can see where we are in the ripple, and it will look like a point. we are 4d beings. the flow of reality and where we are in it are different for you and me, but our spacetime is the same, everywhere. spacetime, ourself, itself is stretched by mass like stars and planets and you and me and a grain of sand and dust. like heavy balls on a rubber sheet, when close enough rolling into one another, or more likely, rolling around it in one big loop. we are twirling around the sun. but the sun is twirling around our galaxy. which itself is being whisked about by ever greater twirls! eventually, if you look far back enough to when we were but just an endless sea of itty bitty specks, forged in the fires of the beginning. their position, while random, begins to pull the closer specks to one another, and farther specks less so. these condensing pools, exactly because it's usually a loop rather than a collision, these condensing pools of bits begin to twirl. at some point, there began a twirl. zoom all the way back in to where you are sitting now, and it seems like a dizzying sequence of spinning into oblivion. go into the full sequence of spinnings, stars into clusters into galaxies into clusters etc.
- we emphasize to yourself that you're splitting through space-time as the little tiny molecules in your brain create different paths or different worlds that is a as far as we can tell a literal real thing and me and besides that to yourself. use that as a motivation to control that path
- as Sean Carroll says it we are not so much splitting or our universe our experience is just getting thinner the whole universe but your branch is getting thinner this thinning branch is the braid through space time would virtual particles then possibly be real particles in other branches of the universe
- one may think that qm, gr, none of this affects me, but they do! you are likely reading this on a giant array of very tiny spotlights, each showing different colors to assemble the words that you see. gps, unaccounting gr, would grow inaccurate at a rate of X meters/hr/min. these are newer technologies, but the same could be said of future tech. cern second order effects, besides finding the higgs. all the other discoveries and cutting edge tech left in its wake. webb tele!
- momentum and position are mutually uncertain for proportionally uncertain is because something with greater velocity is able to travel farther if you survey a tiny spot and spot the particle the less you know how fast it's going or where it's going where is if you survey the whole area and not know where the parking is at all maybe particle is at all maybe it's like spherical wave fronts originating from the point where you might have seen it first you'll know how fast away front is going the probability wavefront they have no idea where it is you could also construct a measurement area somewhere in between I know approximately where it is and likewise you will have more information about where it is going from our perspective padron's climbing into one another looks less like globs of particles but pancakes because they are traveling so close to the speed of light their link contracts in the direction of motion flattening them out and their experience of time is incredibly slow if they had wrist watches likewise in a two dimensional world with light cones ever expanding light cones which from there are perspective look like circles growing in area I guess and if one little blob and the center for seeing another little blob accelerating close to that boundary of that cone it would look and flattened a slim ellipsoid flattened in the direction of its motion and if it were a rocket ship and you could see a clock on board it would be moving very slowly but from out perspective this rocket ship would traveling near the speed of light and might be hard to track with a pair of binoculars going up to mentions from a one dimensional world with 45 angle lines indicating the speed of light with yourself traveling straight words through time at the very center add a dimension to yourself You're now not a link you do not have a link you're not an object with a link rather an object with an area and the light speed boundary has turned into a cone p foundry has gone up a dimension so in freedom space space time instead of two dimensional space time that would look like a spherical boundary The more you speed up the world around you moves slower and slower in time and becomes ever more ever closer to you from either direction as the world is flattened around you in the direction of travel time become slower until when you reach the sweet of light the upper limit time stops completely would that be the five dimensional steer on which we are embedded timelessly the ADSCFT correspondence
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- the human experience
- what is reality ? it is you and I, the colors that emerge from the other side of a prism when white light is incident upon it . it feels like the fur of an animal, or the unique sensation of sunshine on wind-chilled skin . reality is taste, smell, touch, sight, and sound, among a handful of other more subtle sensations(internal bodily, those two other ones) . but before synthesized into a singular, cohesive whole named consciousness, all of these sensations begin as energy, either with globs of matter which take up space, or the sea of energy points which merge, stack, sum, add together .
- what you experience as "real" is always 10-100 ms in the past, depending on the senses used to build that experience. your subjective experience of objective reality is always 10-100 ms in the past , depending upon what experience becomes your subjective reality . a video playing at 100 fps would flash one time over the duration of 10 ms, and flash 10 times over 100 ms. a 28 fps film would flash less than 3 times over 100 ms. so if you were bitten by a mosquito, or absorbing photons from mars, it will be a bit before you noticed.
- soundwaves are just billiard balls quiet noises are vibrations loud noises are billiard balls constantly hitting your eardrum pressing it in loud enough and given periods of time instances of time where there is a wavefront of particles away front of kinetic energy than your eardrum could be damaged use that as an example of one of the census or explain all the senses where seeing is the only one that uses electromagnetic magnetic radiation as far as I know taste and smell are little itty bitty molecules touch of touches electric energy and electric field site electromagnetic field ripples electromagnetic ripples and the rest are complex interactions of molecules or simple st taste smell and hearing
- A cavewoman transported to present-day Manhattan would not be able to comprehend what is around them, other than big, small, fast, complex objects, and other humans. When transported back, this may be all they would be able to describe. But if she and her prehistoric tribe had the language if she were able to somehow bring them with her, and if equiped with the necessary technologies of language and perhaps mathematics, they would be able to learn about everything as well as we can
- Perhaps the tribe all decide they want to learn what a car is. They will, in effect be chizzelling away at an idea, in this case a prototype representation of a car in their heads. Words are created when they are needed, and eventually, after a sufficient amount of concepts have been chipped away, large form and small details, you are are left with an image of a car in your head that more or less represents what is really there, except in an abstract form stored in the individual and collective minds
- The experience of reality that other people have is just as real, just as deep and complex and salient as mine. But how the view another person is such a small window into their experience . The inner and outer worlds are quite different, with one composed of thoughts and feelings and sensations, and the other traits we hardly notice like gesturing, speaking itonation, mannerisms, emoting ones face . but the longer you spend with someone, the greater that window grows, and the closer to someone's real experience you can get . of course they will always be different, but the outer expressions can be accurately interpreted as to how they reflect the inner experience .
- what We are
- human to humanity
- objects and signals
- vocal sounds to meaning
- analigy to fermions+bosons, organelles to proteins, etc.
- one of these patterns is particularly important to humans, and we call that pattern ‘love’. it’s a messy pattern, for sure. the pattern of love is an intricate dance between billions of objects taking place over millions of years. These objects, projecting and bouncing off of one another in a myriad of brief intricate interactions, are only present again in a short moment in time, emerging from nothing and eventually disappearing again, spreading out among the others until all these things scattering about all look like just one big messy ball of frothing matter moving through spacetime, each instance an intricate braid of that one energy, god rippling about, forming ever smaller dances among itself. We are the objects, the one mass is earth, and the brief interactions, fancy vibrations bouncing against one another, is love. One of the patterns seen among all of these sacks of dirty water is holding hands. It is an expression of love among one or more people, and everyone does it because it is (more or less) universally agreed upon that it “feels good”. There are a lot, not nearly as many, but a lot of people who do not think holding hands feels good, and indeed there are much more between the two, if you look close enough an entire spectrum of people who would say that they believe holding hands with someone you want to hold hands with, and who also wants to hold hands with you, feels good. Spanning from the first to the last person, the just born, who while are not yet able to articulate it, clearly show content being held in their mother’s arms, to the hundred or so people who are dying this very minute, either holding the hand of loved ones, or wishes they were doing so.
- collective mind body and soul
-The mind is not one mind, thank god, because diversity of thought is our greatest strength .
-We are not one body, thank god, because redundancy greatly benefits our physical surivival ,
- and we are not one soul, because I’m likely to not have any social interaction with someone on the other side of the planet.
- But we’re not exactly different souls, I don’t think.
Because the tendrils of causality expanding out of me, or the atoms that represent me at this event, may very well effect someone on the other side of the planet. I could join a growing company that eventually impoverishes a village. Compounding social interaction, even miniscule or minor, can ripple through the connections we all have to one another.
- although We are one thing , we are not one mind, thankfully , because diversity of thought is among our greatest strengths . and we are not one body , thankfully , because genetic redundancy greatly benefits our physical survival as a species . and we are not one soul, for one can fit only so many family, friends, and acquaintances into a single social life .
- but we are not separate , either . When a couple grows old together , they can in many was represent one person -- completing each others sentences , knowing what the other is thinking , and so on . this is a highly cohesive soul . the thoughts and actions of one another have shaped who they are as people , a feedback loop of ideas and beliefs, habits and gestures, over the course of decades . yes, they each have individual minds , but how much has the other molded what they are today ? in this sense, it is not just two discrete minds, but two continuously overlapping minds woven together as a braid through spacetime .
- [insert paragraph on why bodies are not separate]
- Again, our souls are can be viewed as a singular entity (in 4D because it takes time for my actions to reach the other side of the world) the tendrils of causality reach out through exponentially growing degrees of freedom .
- our minds bodies and souls look separate when one dimension is taken away : from our perspective, the time dimension . but this is a consequence of our form of life, existing as the crest of an ever-crashing wave twirling in upon itself innumerable times forming the spacetime braid of a "single" thing .
- humanity to planet
- in the book describe not just humans but other animals animals like dolphins that are highly evolved and display soul in the abstract terms that are developed. Dolphins as a species have greater Souls than those of humans
- forms of beauty only a cat can see: they don't have poetry, but their feelings are just as deep
- according to general relativity in the frame of reference foreign object makes most sense to be that of the object of cell of that itself for example and apple traveling in a parabola through the air because we choose to Define our frame of reference the ground below us we can use that as some sort of metaphor for all being a part of one Earth and that's what we actually are I'm not sure and see if you are that end somewhere
- classical vs quantum. the moon has entered our lives, we went there as human. soon mars will enter our world in a much more meaningful way, and that's a long ways away. and there's the mother sun, the source which lets us keep going for as long as we need it. but the earth is us. we have decohered as more or less this big ol' ship called planet earth. i spread, but it is always with you as well.
- (DUPE AT SCALES) the pattern of rhodes with different turns and branches and lights and traffic flows are repeated patterns and those patterns might not be exact they might be statistical patterns in nature but lots of patterns are statistical for incense in a cell the different proteins giggling around in water are much like a snow globe being shaken filled with a wide variety of proteins and other molecules and the system operates probabilistically or statistically in how not in how 1 ATP molecule loaded spring it's not about that HP molecule tripper scene from one organelle to another but rather getting enough of those molecules from one organelle to another just like the flow of cars on roads stretching and creeping and growing at a fractal pattern
- why i will never eat meat again: as we learn more and more, ad
- The experience of a cat must be a beautiful thing. clearly they are not as intelligent as humans but that is comparing them to another species but that does not need to happen to see the worth and complexity and beauty of other experiences like those of cats they do not see as well as we do but they see better much better at in low light. there all factory factory olfactory sensation is much stronger much more vivid 10 hours then hours. their world is very much defined by their sense of smell, hints their sensitivity to strange animals having been present or reacting negatively when you have a an odor on your hands and you want to pet them or why they may want you want to smell your hands before you pet them in the first place this is a beautiful thing and it doesn't really make sense to ask whether or not it is on par better or worse smarter or dumber more or less smart an hour experience then our experience we have the experience of being human the human condition and cats have the experience of being a cat, the feline condition and it is different and somewhere in some areas less attune and some areas greater sensation but no better or worse than an hour experience of life of reality the cats experience of reality is valid for its own worth
- god is the way the sun shines off a black cat's coat
- planet to universe
- argue the case that there is only one thing and that thing is you and me and the animals and the earth and the sun and the moon and all the stars and indeed everything there is in the universe and we can call that one thing god. then, we can use this knowledge to figure out what to do. how to behave. what's the goal. one such goal is the possibility of forward time travel, and when we get our shit together then we'll join a larger timeline. causal timeline. but also if you and me and the trees and the ocean are expressions of god, then we will want to treat ourselves as well as we can. a myriad of reasons.
- insert talk about extending to the sun, moon, system, galaxy, and ultimately the whole universe, mostly the cosmic microwave background, but a little bit before that as well, back when perhaps there were only a trillion things, or a billion, maybe even just a few. That far distant galaxy is not a part of you, but the photons and gravity being emitted from them are hitting us this very moment. It is both far away and a long time ago, but it is fully a part of your experience, whether you are looking through a telescope or not. You personally may not be effected that very moment, the galaxy may not even be facing you, visible in the sky. Maybe at the other end of the earth, but it does hit the earth, and on a long enough timescale, you and me and we and the earth are all the same thing.
- trinities
- mind-body-soul
- The mind is not one mind, thank god, because diversity of thought is our greatest strength. We are not one body, thank god, because redundancy greatly benefits our physical surivival, and we are not one soul, because I’m likely to not have any social interaction with someone on the other side of the planet. But we’re not exactly different souls, I don’t think. Because the tendrils of causality expanding out of me, or the atoms that represent me at this event, may very well effect someone on the other side of the planet. I could join a growing company that eventually impoverishes a village. Compounding social interaction, even miniscule or minor, can ripple through the connections we all have to one another.
- Maybe thinking of one mind is just as extreme as thinking of many individual minds, because we are not individual minds, we become entangled as we braid ourselves through the universe together. It just looks very individualistic from our vantage points, and such is our soul, through those tiny tendrils we each thrust into the future.
- The atoms of our collective Self are the individuals each one of us while the connections are information and naimation is what brings the collective self to life a structre or system needs to have procedures and when you vote and when the president makes a speech that communication from him those words and those letters and those ideas expressed while it may contain very little information it causes quite a lot ot o say for example a declaration of war relate that sort of information back to entropy and how it rlates to thermal entropy and uantum entropy and theoretical shannon entropy.
- The self, like religion, currency, and borders, is a fiction. It is something that makes our lives easier, a tool out of which we construct meaning in our lives. Unlike religion, currency, and borders, the self is an individual fiction, something one cannot help but develop to make sense of, well, the senses arriving at our mind's door, barging in whether we want them to or not. The others are fictions at the scale of continents and civilizations. It seems we don't appear to have much of a choice as to whether we use these tools or not. You could choose not to recognize borders, religion, or currency--but depending on when and where you are, you probably won't last very long. However, the self can be ignored with relatively little harm done to one's life. In fact entire religions seek the surrender of the self as the object of its practice.
- Earth can be Heaven. Earth is Hell for many people, but it doesn't have to be. Human civilization can be seen as the millennia-long, ever continuing march towards a world where every human is without want nor need nor fear nor hate. Like Heaven, this state probably cannot exist.
- Love is the vehicle, faith shows us the way
- per-phy-con
- explore the idea of the three kinds of realities individual reality consensus reality and actual reality objective reality and if it can be seen that they are all the same thing where the individual is just a loop of input and output put the output mean the cross thought the experiences real it's a part of ejector reality consensus more or less and then consensus is just hey explore that and then right now there is not a consensus reality
- mind is the reality one personally experiences, the blinds through which existence is experienced. i think therefore i am, which means roughly in order to question the existence of myself, there must be something to do the questioning. your body, including your brain and the electrical signals therein, are physical reality, the building blocks that are there regardless of whether an i is around to experience it. the personal emerges from the physical, and the physical is known from sentient concousness. the soul is that which spreads out among humans, permiating through our social networks and communities and eventually the whole world. this is why the sky is blue, because we have a broad consensus that the sound/word 'sky' is *that*, and the color of that is a 'shade of blue'. the closer we come to a single consensus reality, the closer we will be to who We truly are.
- isomorphism of mind-body-soul and personal-physical-consensus realities. their duality?
- mind-body: that point where the electro-chemical sensory inputs are transformed into a coherent whole, i.e. your conscious experience. delay of 10-100ms
- mind-soul: mirror neurons, your thoughts, memories, and feelings about other living beings, or Our world as a whole, and the tmf of you within the brains and minds of others
- body-soul: a rock does not have a soul, because no reciprical connection? explore idea. the body is the means by which the soul flows, grows, and explores. fermions and bosons. just mind-body but where the body is the earth, system, universe
- per-phy: personal emerges from physical patterns. spacetime braids, but replace with waves and call it spacetime blooms, a perpectual unfolding of what mostly is, as well as what could have been.
- per-con: the necessary ingredient for a consensus to form. when a soul emerges. two people needed to form a consensus, strongest when the consensus is mutual love for each person.
- phy-con: to varying degrees within the body politic, the ingredients of the consensus, Us, we will under stand better and better what the physical is. that is, what We are. physics as the study of god. per-phy may have beliefs of what We are, but there are much better reasons to believe the consensus of the physical community, because it is much closer to the truth. god.
- implications/how to live
- make a sermon. make the wave the church. teach multicultural loving-kindness to adults, teach kids about the wave. there is a lot of me sitting here typing, there's also a good amount of me getting up and petting my cat. there's not a lot of me running down the street and screaming like a maniac at this moment, but there's some. there's a little bit of me exploding, but my smoldering remains are impossibly small to see compared to the rest. and it just so happens that it is quite convenient in math to call it "one" teach one, then halves, and so on, and that the better you are to one another, there is a *ton* more good version of you.
- okay here's how it works. someone cool succumbs to shitty behavior? it's because of the shift of what is considered okay to say, which itself shifts what it's okay to believe. barr is trying to remove transfolk from the FBI because the culture is more accepting of it. at least the other bubble [1] . he wouldn't dare try removing gayfolk, but in another time you bet he would. because he is an opus dei catholic. and it is against the bible. the right is sustaining an overton window that is far from where society actually is. the last spasms of a dying social system. good or bad, people are leaving churches. i think it's good and bad.
- replace/subsume the ideal of rational humanity for a holistic embrace of thought+emotion
- the earth, Us, is our garden of eden. heaven and hell already exist on earth, the goal is to replace all hell with heaven

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Scales bioengineering/ai Reason Purpose of reason section is to build up justification for spirit section (mainly that spirit corresponds to other interconnections at lower scales The patterns become more complicated (from simple symmetries to spacial (3d eg electron orbits) symmetries to further complex structures and further and further until you reach humans and then you add one more level which is interpersonal relationships inevitability of global unification “Our goal” is to create heaven on earth for all who are born, ideally all who are conceived, world peace What is our current status on the path to our goal? Arguing over what constitutes a better basis for cooperation (capitalism, communism), bringing the entire world up to a tolerable base level basic level (eratication of disease, poverty, famine), and getting global organs to fully cooperate (globalization, war, developing countries) ^ our current status from the perspective of a single entity, humanity/universe Knowledge (?) The elegant universe Eventually it will be humans and computers helping break down math problems, asking one another questions 316 M-theory allows up to 9-branes oxygen molecule, two blobs of quarks with a certain number of electrons around each to allow them to stick to one another, build up new def for quarks earlier in book, exits julius cesear lungs and enters yours, find that, find better idea. talk about how an artery or vein is within x mm (find length of bateria or something) of tissue or whatever factoid. x number of cells! feeds each cell, each cell morphed from a single kind of cell, the instantiation of a human being, see certain section with regard to abortion, was going somewhere else as well... i forget. oh, we are fully replaced every 7 year, that factoid, see if exceptions like teeth or whatnot. just continuous waves of patterns, the faster and wavier the smaller you look. dancing tangles of energy building ever more complex braids. this will go after building up from cosmic egg, particles breaking apart, glow transition, use a bright light, farther away the less bright, then with fog at night or a heavy snowstorm with sun (sol, soul) overhead use Our Body once for earth then just use 'our body' our world is the planet, and the planet's world is the entire universe, or 'the world', so earth is 'our world', universe 'the world' if you were a [species] frog, you would be able to see or detect individual photons. a source of light from far away may dim to nothing for us, but the [species] frog would see a source of light flickering off and on very very quickly, mostly on, eventually just flashing a few seconds in-between those few photons probably won't cause the frog to do much anything different, but it might it may spot a cascading sensation of light from a coming fire-bearer, and jump away to safety the same can be said for humans, but the light will simply be faint and grow brighter that briefest of sensation could have wildly changed how you behaved that light could be people coming to your rescue, or dreaded enemies on the prowl this goes for the light from mars as well if you have ever gazed up at that tiny red dot, it has had an effect on you for most it may cause you to look up and nothing more for some they gazed up right before kissing their partner for the first time perhaps she got a tattoo of mars along with her partner, and it played as a beautiful motif for the rest of their lives these small influences growing to huge changes are coming from everywhere, even as far away as mars but mars is 100 million thousand meters away, 300,000,000 meters/s -> nearly an hour ago even the sun is a few minutes in the past, were it to disappear we wouldn't immediately know what we are, if we were to section off our body all we would be is a surface absorbing light and repelling electrons our experience would simply be the fluctuations of energy or signals over this 2d boundary instead, who and what we are extends out from your head, absorbing the past as it was 10 ms ago, then 1 second ago, then an hour ago, all the way out to the entire cosmos, as best as we can see it we now know that who we are extends out until gravity was created because we experience the ripples of spacetime from objects like black holes from very far away, beyond where the light goes out particles, little 0d points in space, are better described as one giant wave, spreading out as we move forward in time we are learning that we are connected all together as one planet, one system, one galaxy, one universe right now our capabilities are just barely reaching out beyond our planet humans right now are committing perhaps the first global sin we are not empowering those who understand the gravity of the situation scores of beautiful species, expressions of god, will go extinct, and will only exist in recordings or fading memories mass migration from places less habitable will grow in numbers millions will be casualties humanity will survive, we are a proud, hardy ape, but it will be shrouded in sadness let's name a continual explosion . it doesn't matter what, so long as everyone understands what the word means, and is preferably easier to say than " kontinyooalexplowshon " . for the purposes of this text, let's just call them " stelos " as best as we can tell, the stuff from which we are made originated from the death of stelos . when a stelo, which is already a giant explosion, reaches the end of its life, it creates an even greater explosion which can match the brightness of 100 billion stelos . this explosion simultaneously fuses its composite energy points into more massive energy points, and throws these new heavier orbs of matter out into empty space . other stelos begin to attract this matter, coalescing first into a disk circling a stelo, then the disk becomes attracted to itself, coalescing into massive clumps of space dust . the exploding death of a stelo also creates combinations of composite energy points . one of these composite matter blobs, consisting of two smaller points and one larger point, is given the name " water " there happens to be a good amount of water in The Universe(also because of the big bang?), and so these giant clumps of matter circling stelos are more akin to mud . because the mudball is so large, its center is under enormous pressure , which creates heat . this heat radiates outwards, to the surface of the mudball . this heat combines with the mud, and causes heavy composite energy points to further combine , just like how the two smaller blobs in water attach to the larger one . at some point, these big blobs combine in four ways that give rise to the concept named " life " 1 the blobs create a boundary , where there is a reasonable feeling of an " inside " and an "outside " . for instance, the boundary could be stretched around a tiny hole in a rock 2 inside the boundary , the blobs form an even more complex pattern which changes in time before there were stars, there was a lot of hydrogen, which again pooled together into globs of matter, perpetually exploding from its immense energy the hydrogen (and the rest of the gas atoms) was more energetic the farther you look back eventually they are heated to the point where they fly apart, electrons bouncing against nucleons and light bouncing around both suddenly there is bright orange light coming from every direction in space, as photons scatter about traveling millions of miles before entering your eye you can see your hand, your body, and anything else around you, but distant objects fade into the blinding orange fog as everything gets more crowded, bouncing against one another with ever-greater speed, the nucleons fly apart, releasing quarks and gluons to ricochet off electrons and photons soon the light surrounding you grows dim, as all the photons grow to ever higher frequency the world grows blue and then black as the light receeds from our color spectrum forces begin merging together, combining particles together into things we have never witnessed eventually you are left with simply one force, a smooth energy spread throughout an increasingly shrinking space at some point time stops, and we are left with a single thing moving forward in time tells about the same story a simple pervasive energy split apart, into things that could then be put back together in interesting patterns quarks begin sticking together, forming charges which interact with electrons light appears, creeping from dark blue to white, which then fades to orange as the quarks and electrons lost their energy, stable nucleon-electron waves began to form, spreading out into an expanding space as locations became vacant of charge, being constrained to stable neutral regions separated by small distances of space, photons were able to travel among the atoms unimpeded, traveling billions of years until hitting your eye or another atom. this moment of time, when light became unimpeded can be seen when plotting the cosmic microwave background a photon was allowed to travel in a straight line, losing energy as it is stretched through space, then hit the lens of a satellite the atoms formed stars, and those stars formed bigger atoms, and those bigger atoms form you first they group into simple patterns, different configurations of atoms stuck together from their electrons these tiny groups grow into more complex patterns, large spacial configurations of dozens of different atoms the bigger pieces begin to clump together those bigger pieces grow into a living organism, with a variety of complex systems maintaining a process inside a tiny bag of water those tiny bags clump together, creating more clumps similar to it, and given enough time these clumps will turn into a human just look at the other, what you want, and aim towards that, perf and all i perform civil-social maintenance - Stars are not how far away but rather how long ago - The longer I go the less it affects you or rather a sphere around you a star it's light it's gravity it's affect on me could be described not could can be described with very little information very little very high entropy - The information the entry crosses the spherical boundary this circle boundary the entropy crosses - connect back to Mars and the proposal - consider Vega for most people they will never know what Vega is and that's okay most people will gaze up not knowing what they're looking at but noticing the brightness of one particular one particular star this will affect some subset of the human population or rather all living things like the Earth itself the Earth is one living thing the moon the moon has tons of entropy it affects everyone vega may not affect someone who doesn't know what they're looking at but it plays a small small part in their lives an astronomer dedicates their life to stars like viga and this greatly influences their life The information stored in the brain encoded in the electrochemical loops Is highly entangled with all of us but more so with the astronomer because there is more information being held inside your sphere The information crossing your sphere The Earth is one living thing and that is what makes it so precious that is the blue marble - the moon influences as greatly but it is not a living thing The sun gives us life but it is not life itself itself is not living it itself is not living - that is what makes us special that is what makes us one thing - The center of the Earth is not living we are simply a moss grown around a massive clump of dirt but the dirt also gives us energy the dirt and the sun are stores of energy that give birth the father is the son the Earth is the mother and we are the moss that has grown around it - we are highly intangled with the other side of the Earth both with scar with regards to space time as well as the information as it travels from one sphere when subset of the big sphere this big information sphere that is the Earth what the crosses from one subset of the Earth IE a liter of a deleter Japan the liter of Japan deleter of Japan wow extra information such as what new policy is inacted and how it affects your site of the Earth that is extra information on top of the physical information which makes up the physical emperor there's information and tangled in his brain most of it unless he dies or something else happens to his whole body mind is subset of body or maybe solid subset of mind because that is the glue it's social like a pack of dogs um yes so the necessary ingredient for the connection between humans it a substance of the mind or maybe more fundamental of and the mind is a subset of the body so maybe the mind is more fundamental than the body that does make sense oh no um mine does built up from the body The body has built up from the earth the soul is built up from the mind it is a pinnacle it is perhaps more beautiful - what we are like is a video game we have a state a position on the map a certain number of health points and so on we also have rules by which the state changes in time for an AI enemy there are rules steps discreet steps by which it changes with time such as approaching or firing at you there are exact rules Andy you follow these rules yourself but that let's not think about that right now likewise we have a state a position for instance where you are or where every particle in your body is the fuzzing the fuzzing between the particles as information travels from point to point there's a constant jiggling because things are constantly moving because they don't have an entirely definite position look into that this fuzzing is what allows you to travel through the world's or navigate your branch in your brain your space time braid - elaborate on this braid it is a braid because unlike the game which ticks in very tiny discreet steps our time is continuous space time is continuous and because we are fortunational beans not three dimensional plus time we are four dimensional what seems like a point is actually traced a line of energy through a braid these different braids as they constantly split apart Is that entropy when there's more splitting apart the more you have to know how things change as they ever they branch out they they constantly bloom out a perpetually blooming flower with ever more petals behind the last the next - this braid the more complex the braid the more entropy the more information it requires and that is why a random star in the sky does not add as much information because it's only sending a fuzzy wave of electrons - and then go into how we discovered that the rule the rules by which our game state changes describes a wave a particle is a ripple we are just one point along this ripple but like a drop of water like a drop of water hitting a pond spreads out in all directions this spreading is the infinite regress of petals like any model every word in this text is false, but it might be useful when time first began there was only energy. no particular time pure in its form. there was also bass space, rapidly inflating outwards due to this presence of energy. it all pushed away from itself at some point, the singular energy split apart into two different kinds, one which pushes and pulls, and one that only pulls[1.1 knowing a position between the moon and the earth to within the breadth of a human hair (12 decimal points) is the precision of qft (before qft?) a particle is the cross-section of a braid an energy braid a braid of energy wheeler back and forth strand of electron (electron strand) looks, in slices, like many electron particles from which grew feynman diagrams anything can happen as long as it happens fast enough to detect dedt > h field sits at zero, but if you look, its fluctuating around zero. look closer, bigger flucs, more energetic particles? knot is quarks, gluons jump gap it is only on rare occasions that you do not feel the ground beneath your feet it is not that we are simply tethered to the Earth we are extensions of it The branching that Sean Carroll talks about the gradually getting thinner of a particular world can be thought of as a hardening. when we think of ourselves as spreading out Is not just us that spreads out it is the whole earth it is every object in the universe every interaction the reason that solid objects do not behave quantum mechanically Is this hardening this crystallization of interactions a single particle two single particles pretty out somewhere in the wave function of the universe this spherical body of water with different kinds of waves overlapping one another locations particular spots where two waves meet have a tendency or can stick together like protons and neutrons nucleons and electrons a nucleon is not little ball stuck together it is one big sphere that spreads out that has an extent in space due to the uncertainty principle the same reason that degenerate matter is I guess so hot um so I am branching out I'm spreading out I'm walking around in different patterns in different worlds oh but as the special extensives begin gluing together over larger distances it's not able to spread out as much because information has to travel between those distances this is also where MC squared comes into play the c squared it is I guess how much to say photos able to spread out over a period of time which is some sort of area some sort of velocity squared area film soundtrack that is composed only of heartbeat rhythms where the number of rhythms allowed is equal to the number of characters being portrayed on screen picture 2 points on our circle pond spherical hollow shell pond with different kinds of waves Ripley together and two particles of two different fields meet this moment of the two particles meeting two dots being carried out from two spherical wave fronts they meet and that meeting point itself begins to spread out and say a spherical wavefront or perhaps directed but because these two particles might stick together and because momentum must be conserved these two faster particles maze slow down and therefore not able to spread out as much spread out at the circular cross sections of the light cone I guess so maybe the stitching together of space time are these little areas spreading out spreading out of possibility proportional to the area of c squared picture yourself driving in your car with a falcon with a bird watching over head or better yet a time lapse from a spy satellite you will appear to circle around or hover around particular spots maybe there are different spots within a larger spot with sudden jumps to another spot corresponding to wind you were driving your car from spot-to-spot these themselves will form loops larger connections most people make the same commute every day following the same loop but they also go other places perhaps less frequently and perhaps they travel far very rarely looked at fast enough you will look like a particle moving around in a larger emergent pattern these patterns spread out along with the entire Earth and every particle in the universe the observable universe but much more slowly than a particle or an atom or a molecule all structures spread out as waves, but when we go to look, we see where we are in the wave represented by some structure : at the bottom, just particles, points of energy . particles combine, creating combinations of two or three or four . some of these combinations last longer than others . but these new structures, multi-particle blobs spreading out in The Wave, now have relations to one another, are influenced by one another, and occupy positions not just within The Wave, but among themselves . this pattern repeats . particles or instances in the wave or locations in the wave, combine into larger structures, occupying a greater amount of space in which to place these bag of point energies . when two or more point energies combine (locations in space combine) and become a single structure, they must remain in the same proximity of one another . they may jiggle and vibrate, but to unfasten from one another takes more effort than to simply stay connected . the greater the distance in space, the farther light/info has to travel, and the longer it takes for the continual update of eachothers location, this constricting prevents one from wandering off too far from the other, whereas single particles can travel as fast as they want, having no baggage this constricts not just their motion, but also the amount that they can spread in the wave . a molecule can still spread out far, but we are less likely to observe it from where we are in the wave . point energies to 1-structs to 2-structs (atoms) to 3-structs (molecules) as we go further up levels, relationships between particles become less abstract, and more similar to our everyday experiences. the stability of 1-structs relies on triplet relationships and strangely behaving waveforms (kinds of energies which split apart (energyforms?), 2-structs show spherical patterns of energy and a basic spacial structure (center point + cloud), 3-structs begin to enter the realm where more sense can be made. 2nd structs combine together with much more definite spacial locations relative to one another. how they fit together relies on the more-abstract spherical shapes of 2nd structs, but how 3rd structs fit together depends just on where everyone is relative to one another . you can't take up someone else's space, and you stick to your position relative to your neighbors (thinking of an organic molecule or something) 3rd structs then begin able to interact with other 3rd structs, bags of blobs of points, to create larger bags of blobs of points of waveforms, but at larger and larger sizes of bags, the push-pull of em becomes less important, and the spacial location or extent or structure or shape that the 3struc has. more and more like blobby building blocks, gooey shapes which combine together into ever larger blobs, forming new relationships between the larger structs, as well as the smaller structs holding up those relationships. a blob learns to move a smaller blob to a much bigger blob to keep it making a different kind of blob. this relationship could directly involve 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or maybe 5th structs? 3rd -> molecules -> 4th compounds -> 5th going into in/org stuff this can lead to rocks, where 2nd and 3rd level structures dominate on a large scale (large being, a whole rock!) to humans, where 4th compounds/amino-acids -> 5th proteins -> 6th complexes -> 7th organelles -> 8th cells -> 9th organs -> 10th consciousness? -> 11th terra -> 12th god ? this is where we need to fit in replicators and re-read selfish gene 'recombination epoch' are the assigned symbols to refer to this moment when the 1strucA[1:electrons] and 2strucA[2:protons] grew cold enough to stick together, separated by space between, much larger than the space between 1strucBs[3:quarks] inside the 2strucAs . with more noticable patterns created by the spread of those distances (the spherical harmonic orbitals) . the wild mess of positive and negative point charges evenly mixed throughout space, which had caused the foggy diffuse light, photons jostled every which direction . now positive and negative points are constrained to vibrate near one another in specific locations. the overlap causes charge outside their spacial extent to quickly approach zero, allowing photons to travel more or less straight through, be that between two atoms, or one atom itself . when we look out at the sky at night, there is a photon travelling from one particular spot, or rather many from a spot, but make that spot smaller and smaller, you will get to the point where that circle area contains only one photon (make it smaller and there's likely to be none?) that single photon was released from the fog when a 2 and 1 struct combine, and has been travelling straight from that instant to now, hitting your eye (or super frog eye so we can see it) or hitting your spherical shell, perhaps constructing you from every other particle in the universe from the information sitting on the surface of the shell . 1d wave to 2d speckle pattern to 3d particle pattern a solar sail works by absorbing the momentum of photons hitting the mirror-like foil wings . but photons don't have a mass, so how can they transfer momentum ? what they don't have is rest mass . in the frame of reference of an electron, zipping around with it, the electron has some mass . in the frame of reference of a photon, length contraction and time dilation has squashed the entire universe, or all space around it, into a flat disk, perpendicular to the direction of travel . likewise, time has completely stopped . a photon seen from our perspective ('seen') moves location with time, but it sees us down somewhere on a flat disk . does this 2d and 1t compactification translate to a part of the braid, not the braid, the string, moving into a third dimension we cannot see? or its universe changing with time? or maybe this flat universe with a photon in its center is just some spread out location in the wave ? when the solar sail speeds up, the light in front of it will be blueshifted slightly, hitting the front with greater energy (smaller wavelength), and at some point would require more and more energy to push against this greater pressure of energy . picture the rest of the em spectrum as just more colors maybe the eye the size of a world could see the color of radio waves . we already look at color corrected ones find object with most pictures in different wavelengths, or picture taken with widest wavelength diff, color correct all to the same color, sin fade between lowest and highest wavelength, see how it changes ? if you were a massive particle, perhaps one that can see all the colors of the spectrum, and you continued to accelerate, your universe would become more squat in the direction of travel . and everything happening in your universe would slow down . keep going, and your perspective approaches that of a photon, pushing up against this universe-wide boundary, everything inside slowing to a snail's pace . is it a position in the wave ? embedded cognition, body influences actions *and* thoughts emotions involve emotion ? before feeling, there are emotions. nervousness is both? in the beginning was emotion before a felt feeling in a nervous system The soul is what appears when a one-person universe is turned into a two-person universe The change is not just the addition of one person it is the connection between the two that would be different if they were a different person and would not be there at all in a one person universe there's something that appears in groups that is not there before this is usually where liberals and conservatives talk past one another because one is talking about the individual and the other is talking about the group for instance right now the police The police force is a hole is a somewhat contentious issue one side Is talking about the group and the issues at a system level a social structure The other is talking about the individual and the risks and dangers and of the job and the honor in that this can be scaled up from one to two to ten to a hundred to the Earth as an argument for their being a global soul one giant spherical shell of carbon arranged in complex intricate patterns arising from the individual knowing themselves knowing themself to the earth knowing herself and just like how the soul between three people is different than two people because there are more connections more more interaction between person a and b and person a and c and person b and c and how they see themselves such as c to c that isn't there that change requires other people so even well that makes sense your self is not some immutable thing it is is a perception a self-perception that can change over time and if you are around people that look you up you will have a self that you like and if you have people that bring you down you'll have someone you may not like as much so is more and more people are added you get diminishing returns because there's only so much time to socialize which is to spread out your soul and as you get from person to person a person to person your soul is less and less there soon it becomes only knowledge of your existence of your name to maybe a name that has been forgotten but can still be found in one's head if reminded for example so but still the dynamic changes because you're interacting with someone who is also spread out as much as you are or hopefully as much as they prefer and that changes the connection between that you and that other person but once the connection has reached the scale of the entire Earth as well as the humans orbiting around her your soul your connection to everyone as well as your notion of self are different than if it were say such as we are now where nations have sold have strong self-souls but their connection to other massive reservoirs of souls IE other nations are less strong Americans care more about Americans than are minions are minions Armenian there we go Americans care more about Americans than Armenians when it's global the the strongest connection possible each individual knowing that they are that they are of the earth below them as well as every living thing on earth that is when be our highest form of life and our greatest potential as a living thing go after the argument that if the soul wasn't there then it would be two individuals both acting as if they are alone both thinking that they are alone even though they see another person that is the absence of soul I share a soul with Donald Trump and it is not a good one oh heaven is good soul and hell is bad soul so hell like you know being a parent of an adolescent in modern day Syria say when bombs are raining down if we are simply some order arising from a larger resevoir of disorder, just by chance and the nature of energy at a location wanting to change (the wave has to keep rippling!) then the most common blips of "simpleness", closer to unity, closer to God, reaching closer, then we would probably be in those less ambitious, easier to make universes . all you need is one galaxy, right? or just one star? that's a lot easier to make than what we see . what we are . "observer selection bias" . if entropy must always increase, if things get less simple . again visit the videogame analogy . there is a world, and it changes in time . a goomba does not stay still . a goomba has places to go, and has to know what happens when they hit a wall . yadda yadda yadda so your game state is a chair in a room . it does nothing, so you just put one thing in one position . but the way the game changes, is after some amount of time the chair will break into two . every time that happens you double the number of things and locations of those things . a chair breaks in two, you have part 1 here and part 2 there . those break, four parts, 16, 32 and each time, the amount of information you have to keep track of keeps taking up more and more space . you have to keep track of more, and it never becomes less . that is a hard-coded rule of our universe. our start kept track of maybe a few hundred things (look into this . planck volumes after planck time) and will eventually have to keep track of over 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 things (10^88 particles ? when everything ultimately dissolves?) capernican : this is probably typical by definition anthropic : we must find ourselves somewhere capable of creating ourselves caperopic or anthrnican : find ourselves in the most typical of places that can create observers, even if those places are rare among all the places possible . this says something interesting about alien life . in most observer friendly locations, we will find aliens that are more or less like us . maybe looking different, but probably mammalian ? twist those knobs a bit and you may find rarer forms of life , forms that may achieve high speed space travel, live forever, and are very patient . maybe they experience time much quicker than we do . or more slowly . but in most regions of God, we will find creatures that more or less operate the same way we do . but because we find ourselves in such a large universe, and not one with just one galaxy or one star, we are probably not a random fluctuation . lol we are therefore probably close to the end of the universe . we are much more likely to be in a region that is about to end than one that just began, i guess ? no physics equation is exact, no model describes a system perfectly . but sometimes a simple model can approach the system, or reality, so closely that there appears to be something special about that model, those equations, that math, those symbols on the page. The World, Our World, is a sphere, which, when described with symbols, is very simple , which some would say makes it ' beautiful ' . even more so, the planets move in circles around the sun . a sphere is a three-dimensional circle, and a circle is a two-dimensional sphere . they are written as x^2+y^2=c, having 9 symbols, or even more simply: ce^ix, having bleh symbols. except The Earth is not a sphere, and the planets do not circle around the sun . because the earth rotates , it tends to bulge around the middle . this is closer to the shape called an ' oblate spheroid ' . and the planets travel in ellipses around the sun, not circles . but again these particular shapes, while not as simple as circles and spheres , can be described with relatively few symbols . and the model that we create, the model of math, the math model, is incredibly close to reality. so close that you wouldn't think you could get any closer . except again these are not an exact mapping of what happens . in reality , the planets throw each other slightly off course when near one another , and the earth is obviously not an oblate spheroid, because there are mountains and valleys . as it turns out, there are very short lists of symbols describing both of these so close to perfect , that you would be forgiven for thinking the equations describe reality perfectly . then go on to talk about qm no physics equation is exact, no model describes a system perfectly . but sometimes a simple model can approach the system, or reality, so closely that there appears to be something special about that model, those equations, that math, those symbols on the page. The World, Our World, is a sphere, which, when described with symbols, is very simple , which some would say makes it ' beautiful ' . even more so, the planets move in circles around the sun . a sphere is a three-dimensional circle, and a circle is a two-dimensional sphere . they are written as x^2+y^2=c, having 9 symbols, or even more simply: ce^ix, having bleh symbols. except The Earth is not a sphere, and the planets do not circle around the sun . because the earth rotates , it tends to bulge around the middle . this is closer to the shape called an ' oblate spheroid ' . and the planets travel in ellipses around the sun, not circles . but again these particular shapes, while not as simple as circles and spheres , can be described with relatively few symbols . and the model that we create, the model of math, the math model, is incredibly close to reality. so close that you wouldn't think you could get any closer . except again these are not an exact mapping of what happens . in reality , the planets throw each other slightly off course when near one another , and the earth is obviously not an oblate spheroid, because there are mountains and valleys . as it turns out, there are very short lists of symbols describing both of these so close to perfect , that you would be forgiven for thinking the equations describe reality perfectly . then go on to talk about qm it may not feel like it, but at this moment you are spreading out like a wave . the spinning is the spreading . you are just at one spot in this wave . but if we were to look at all the spots at once, overlaying every copy of you into one of them, say the one you're in right now . actually first let's describe how a particle spreads out . if you were to take a particle, a dot of energy a point , a point energy , put it in a box all by itself, and then leave it be , the energy will spread out spherically in all three directions, becoming more diffuse as it does . one can roughly imagine taking a shower, afterwards taking all the water vapor particulates ( you can see them , but they're small ) and ball all them up into a small sphere in the center of the bathroom , and assuming none of the particles stick together , letting go and watching the sphere of water balls spread out , oh and quiet air . you can also think of smoke particulate , or anything small and or point like . we don't see that, because we are spreading out in all three directions as well, moving along with the diffusing of the point energy . whenever we looks, we only see a point energy and not something diffuse and spread out , but that is simply because we have no choice but to spread out with the particle , and so knowing our location means the point energy also has a location . imagine being a tiny water skater on a pond , you are unable to see far in front of yourself because you're so small, but it looks mostly flat . finish analogy later . so yeah, here, restricting yourself to a single particle spreads you , and everything, the universe as you experience it , does so as well . now reality as we experience it means that there is no wave inside the box, always a point , but if we were to stack the spread to a single point , we would see something spreading out like a wave . it doesn't lose density , but it is just something to picture . a trillion points spreading out in every direction from a single spot . you have many more particles in yourself, approximately 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 particles . so see yourself spreading out if we were to stack all the yous into one space . there is you, very clearly reading right now , but you become spread out and blurry . you start turning your head to look at something . you get up and get a drink . all these yous and all variations are continually spreading out everywhere . very dimmly you may see a ghostly image of yourself getting up and jumping as high as you can . it is incredibly unlikely to happen, but it is possible , and so it happens . something about how a better version of yourself is closer than you think , and that person will exist no matter what , so why not have it be you ? or rather that spread of many yous , be a part of that part of the wave the electron cloud sitting around an atom, when not observed, is just sitting there . there is nothing whizzing around, there is not any noticeable change of any kind . when we look it is at a spot . or rather, when we measure between here and there, making here and there really close together, and then slicing the world away into what looks like a small dot . 1d left and right of the measured interval are sliced away, 2d forward and back, and 3d up and down . you will find a slice of "the electron" or the slice is what we call an electron, but it is sliced away, and the rest is still there, just somewhere else . the electron spin, isn't 50% likely to be here and 50% likely to be there : it is 100% likely to be here and there , but there happens to be somewhere else. a spot in a wave bobbing why not just have three rotating vectors at each point? for each complex number in 3d space? the energy is how fast the wave is wiggling in time, and the momentum is how steep the slopes are in space . faster wiggles and steeper slopes mean more energy and momentum . why momentum ? because the total momentum of the universe is zero . a car is flying down the highway, but that highway is on the earth, which is flying around the sun . but the sun is whipping around the center of our galaxy in one of it's tendril-like arms , and our galaxy is flying towards another galaxy . or is that galaxy flying towards us ? the point is the momentum depends on what you're looking at and from where you are asking "what's the momentum?" why not velocity ? take an electron, place it in an empty universe, and observe which way it's spinning . if you observe it again, it will be the same . if you rotate the universe about that electron 180 degrees in any direction, you will observe the same direction of spin ( you can go into why 1 and -1 are useful, because if it's spinning in one direction represented by the unit vector, if you're upside down you'll measure the same spin direction, but that unit vector is just pointing the other way ) if you rotate just a slight amount, you will most likely measure the same spin direction picture a little planet(s)/mass(es) orbit around a big/heavy planet/mass . measure an electron, and it will be spinning . spinning in a direction . if you measure it again, but completely flipped over, you'll measure the same spin . you know which way the electron is spinning along that direction . if you measure the electron along a different axis, there's a 50-50 chance it is spinning up or down . if you move an angle near the perspective of the electron we've measured from , it will most likely be the same direction of spin ( just with a slightly different angle from the previous measurement ) from every direction, that spot of energy is spinning outward, with the spin arrow either pointing directly at you or away from you . the amount you don't know, the probability of spinning direction ( cw or ccw ) when measuring from a right angle to the previous measurement ( in a sense ' looking ' at the electron a certain way ) that just means that it is spinning both directions simultaneously, but you don't know which way . that spot ( and by extension the universe contained in a spherical shell centered at the spot of measurement, radiating outward at the speed of causality ( light) causality change-rate . this sphere engulfs the earth in a millisecond ? the moon in 8 seconds ? and then the sun in 8 minutes . ( we see the moon as it was 8 seconds ago, and the sun as it was 8 minutes ago . if the sun were to explode, we wouldn't know for 8 minutes ) this is how fast the fast ripples travel on the 4-sphere . the slow ripples have mass, or rather are slowed down for a few reasons 1 the the simple points of energy simply have a mass . different kinds with different amounts . electrons have a little . 2 composite particles slow each other down . the three quarks in a proton have to stick together , like three people running, each holding ( tied around foot?) short ropes between themselves . if you get three people good enough, they could probably run pretty fast, but not as fast as one person alone, because there is still some hinderence from the rope 3 the kind from simply containing thermal/kinetic energy ? like a wound spring . anyway, when you measure the electron field at a point, it is spinning outward in every direction, both ways, ... but it is more like an event than an object! there is magic in (the written word) (words), it allows the same thing to be seen in different ways . axis and allied propaganda are discussing the same event, but make a very different case for it . some other example, and then get on to physics, or maybe something about beast machines as a way to describe animals . domestic machines . but physics concepts can be described in many different ways, and words can lend themselves to different perspectives or analogies, and perhaps there is a best way to describe what all of physics really is . or at least a better way than what we have right now . e.g. ' atom ' if a cat, when sitting still, is not thinking about something, or feeling something, then it is meditating, by definition . in any case, the inner life of a cat is either similar to ours, or how we should strive to live . living in the moment (in the moment) . think of a bird speaking to you, or a monkey signing to you . one may think this is simply an elaborate trick, so let's start with that assumption . there is probably a better monkey or bird out there somewhere, and those best animals could get better . maybe the species as a whole is getting better at communication ( evolutionary pressure is probably just making them better at being birds/monkeys, but maybe communication is beneficial regardless? ) at what point is it no longer a trick ? or is our consciousness, our sentience, not simply an elaborate trick ? thinking, feeling, communicating are not something an animal either does or doesn't do . it is a smooth gradient, a spectrum, a continuous change in and among species . a cat thinks, a cat feels, and a cat communicates . and if it is doing none of those things, it is simply experiencing the world, not shut off because they still react to sound, but if not reacting to stimuli, then they are very likely in a state of bliss . try as we might, we are never able to experience someone else's life . we make glossy, big production biography films , and in the future we will probably use VR to experience the life of someone else . but these experiences are just peering into a dark room . our imagination fills in most of the details . when we fill in someone else's experience, we are practicing empathy . we strenghten our ability to empathise when we receive feedback on how well we've done . 'thank you' or 'you made me feel better' don't get lost this is how we love animals . one sees their cat need to sneeze but unable to do so, and because we know what that's like, we empathize, and we love. why in Gods name do we ever have to accept the world for what it is ? growing up . becoming an adult . we see and experience the world in good and bad ways both as children and adults . we should take the good and reject the bad from both . the idealism of youth can be used in very good ways . the idealism of youth ... is that maga? what you experienced when young vs what you experience now ? as a youngin you see the wrong in the world . no it's different . as you grow older you simply become numb to it . time speeds up for three reasons new experiences relative change never feel old no physics equation is exact, no model describes a system perfectly . but sometimes a simple model can approach the system, or reality, so closely that there appears to be something special about that model, those equations, that math, those symbols on the page. The World, Our World, is a sphere, which, when described with symbols, is very simple , which some would say makes it ' beautiful ' . even more so, the planets move in circles around the sun . a sphere is a three-dimensional circle, and a circle is a two-dimensional sphere . they are written as x^2+y^2=c, having 9 symbols, or even more simply: ce^ix, having bleh symbols. except The Earth is not a sphere, and the planets do not circle around the sun . because the earth rotates , it tends to bulge around the middle . this is closer to the shape called an ' oblate spheroid ' . and the planets travel in ellipses around the sun, not circles . but again these particular shapes, while not as simple as circles and spheres , can be described with relatively few symbols . and the model that we create, the model of math, the math model, is incredibly close to reality. so close that you wouldn't think you could get any closer . except again these are not an exact mapping of what happens . in reality , the planets throw each other slightly off course when near one another , and the earth is obviously not an oblate spheroid, because there are mountains and valleys . as it turns out, there are very short lists of symbols describing both of these so close to perfect , that you would be forgiven for thinking the equations describe reality perfectly . then go on to talk about qm it may not feel like it, but at this moment you are spreading out like a wave . the spinning is the spreading . you are just at one spot in this wave . but if we were to look at all the spots at once, overlaying every copy of you into one of them, say the one you're in right now . actually first let's describe how a particle spreads out . if you were to take a particle, a dot of energy a point , a point energy , put it in a box all by itself, and then leave it be , the energy will spread out spherically in all three directions, becoming more diffuse as it does . one can roughly imagine taking a shower, afterwards taking all the water vapor particulates ( you can see them , but they're small ) and ball all them up into a small sphere in the center of the bathroom , and assuming none of the particles stick together , letting go and watching the sphere of water balls spread out , oh and quiet air . you can also think of smoke particulate , or anything small and or point like . we don't see that, because we are spreading out in all three directions as well, moving along with the diffusing of the point energy . whenever we looks, we only see a point energy and not something diffuse and spread out , but that is simply because we have no choice but to spread out with the particle , and so knowing our location means the point energy also has a location . imagine being a tiny water skater on a pond , you are unable to see far in front of yourself because you're so small, but it looks mostly flat . finish analogy later . so yeah, here, restricting yourself to a single particle spreads you , and everything, the universe as you experience it , does so as well . now reality as we experience it means that there is no wave inside the box, always a point , but if we were to stack the spread to a single point , we would see something spreading out like a wave . it doesn't lose density , but it is just something to picture . a trillion points spreading out in every direction from a single spot . you have many more particles in yourself, approximately 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 particles . so see yourself spreading out if we were to stack all the yous into one space . there is you, very clearly reading right now , but you become spread out and blurry . you start turning your head to look at something . you get up and get a drink . all these yous and all variations are continually spreading out everywhere . very dimmly you may see a ghostly image of yourself getting up and jumping as high as you can . it is incredibly unlikely to happen, but it is possible , and so it happens . something about how a better version of yourself is closer than you think , and that person will exist no matter what , so why not have it be you ? or rather that spread of many yous , be a part of that part of the wave Because we are already living a temporary personal heaven or hell, depending on when and where one is born. but because We as individuals are able to change our environment, and because there is a clear direction in which ones hell can be alleviated, or heaven improved, there is a clear goal, as individuals to families to communities to nations to the Earth to extend our individual and collective heavens as much as possible . there is no end point where perhaps 'history ends' as Marx put it. Where bliss is achieved for everyone . and the direction that the inevitable global consciousness probably is always changing, always a moving target. but there is and always will be that striving, an innate desire to build and improve and solve the next problem or just slight inconvenience. so We will wander about blindly searching for the perfect life for all whatever that happens to mean at the time. why the fiction is inevitable you wouldn't last very long without the fiction of the self. On its own accord, it will soon begin to construct it again, using whatever sensations happen to get inside. the reason a blind person experiences richer hearing is because the brain cannot help but to begin forming new mental models that make sense of the world. neurons are not suddenly dead--they adapt. and they adapt to their new stronger and/or weaker signals (more or less firings? action potential?) and make them as useful a model of the world as possible. they cannot see a child running in the distance, but they can hear the child running from around the corner. (regions of the brain? spacial modeling?) Their world is in some ways a less accurate model of reality, but there are other ways that are arguably more accurate, like 'seeing' around corners. Is their reality, their subjective reality, better or worse? what was the life of (blind and deaf communist) like? We cannot know, but it may not be worse than our experience. it might just be different, simply one experience among billions and trillions. cats and nirvana what is going through the mind of a cat? they clearly experience hunger, fear, and cats can solve problems, which means they think as well as feel. how much do they think and feel? well, they don't think as much as humans. but the world of a cat, the senses coming in, and reaction emerging from the body. do they feel as much as humans? we can't really say? (oh, go back and insert dolphin story) it is difficult to say. the inner workings of a cat's mind may be very different from ours. much better suited for the life of a cat. so what is a cat thinking or feeling when you see them sitting on the floor, not asleep, but eyes closed and motionless? it is tempting to say nothing at all. but eventually they feel thirst and get up and get some water. there is a moment, a gradient of the action potentials, where that cat made a decision, and engaged most of their muscles to move them up, stretch, claw at the carpet, then get a drink from the water bowl. what was happening at that moment? someone who has meditated (not attempted! every session is enlightenment! find that passage in MIPE) knows that the mind tends to wander. spend some time meditating, and you will soon find that these wanderings occur by jumping from one experience to another, where an 'experience' is the combination of the mental image and the bodily reaction to that image. it is then that, if we meditate without an ending time, set duration, yada yada yada, then there will be some experience (a sensation like imaging the taste of a particular sandwhich, or seeing a blurry image of a particular (or general) sandwich. or a blurry taste. not quite distinguishable, unless you give your mind time to construct details and store them in working memory. how much different is our getting up from sitting motionless on the floor with our eyes closed, and our cat getting up? they may very well be experiences of jumping from thought to thought, feeling to feeling, reaction to reaction. if this is not the case, and there truly isn't much going on inside that cat head, then are they not in a state of being closer to nirvana or bless than we most likely are? Just pure experience of the new, and all the sensations that come roaring in, and your mind and body's reaction to them, with ever more clarity, at smaller and smaller timescales, always approaching an instant, or maybe there's a hard cap at about a 10th of an second or 100th of a second to process larger thoughts? or allow the signals to propagate. how quickly is a cat processing (again, 'experiencing') all of this, and do they bring their attention back to an object of meditation? or maybe just perpectual distraction, getting lost in every thought that passes their head, or rather beings to jump from thought to thought? either way, a cat experience, like the blind person, experiences not a better or worse way, just different? no better or worse just different brain type of reptiles? What you are a seeing is not what's really there. It is an illusion, a mental construction of what is your brain's best guess at what is real. And it does a pretty good job. Accurately representing reality is what your brain is built for. It is hard to stay alive for very long if this were not the case. But there is still a difference between your subjective reality--the construction inside your head--and the objective reality in which we exist. What you see, a three-dimensional scene containing a variety of objects, is the result of many processing layers, starting at the light entering your pupils, morphed and woven into ever larger, more abstract representations. First the light--ripples of electromagnetic force-- hit the back of your eye, where a an array of many photosensitive receptors convert these ripples into color and brightness based on the frequency and intensity of the wavefront. This is not very different from the pixels of a computer screen. The colors and light are then grouped into simple shapes and patterns--stripes or curves or blotches, which are then further grouped into more complex shapes. This process repeats, requiring fewer and fewer neurons to represent what is constructed from the previous layer. These neurons encode ever more complex entities until only a handful can represent a single object located in the three-dimensional construction. Recent experiments [citation needed] have shown that single neurons will fire in response to various images of one particular celebrity, and nothing else. what we see is entirely an illusion . constructed from a very tiny and very sizable array of cells, detecting light of a certain wavelength (simply by getting in the way? probably, how else? the collision of a photon and an atom) two more capture light of three wavelengths, which is stitched together inside the brain via electrochemical ripples and echos and reflections through its constituent cells. two large stitchings, simply the photoarray absorbed by the rear wall of they eye . two are overlapped to create the illusion of depth, the orientation is flipped because the light inside our eye inverts at the whatever, the colors are summed together to create the spectrum . and so on and so forth . what is the point ? your subjective reality is an illusion . it is, most of the time, an incredibly good approximation of reality, but not quite reality itself . objective reality . and again, the point ? the point is to eventually lead to the argument, build up the argument, for Us and The Wave . so the point of pointing out the gap between our personal reality and objective reality is to argue that our everyday reality is not the full picture, simply because there are occurrences, processes of nature being carried out at scales (!) outside of ours -- the realm of meters and kilometers . the objects around us and as far as we can see . that is our world . but the cellular world is just as valid a part of reality . as is those monstrous scales of the earth or the distance to the moon or the sun . and what we are at the fundamental level is one giant wave . We must internalize the idea that all these are not only equally " real " but are far beyond our reality in terms of what is happening, how its happening, and these varied realities are not only beautiful, but fundamentally what we are . the whole spectrum of scales and their activities . oh but yes! we are all these things, but We stop at our bodies . everything else is not oneself . we are not two people, or a village, or all the animals, or the earth itself . we stop at our bodies . have to work on the way we bridge that . which is the soul . another aspect of reality outside the subjective, another pattern that is there but we cannot see, for example the vibrational waves permeating all the molecules in the air which we experience as sound . it is real . it is an " emergent " phenomenon . composed of many tiny parts ( individual atoms bumping into one another ) to create what looks like, at a much larger scale, ripples through the air ( again a wave ) the soul is just like that . it is a pattern that, when looked at just one tiny part (like a handful of atoms, or say just two atoms ! ) that is built up from other things . in our the thing is our spacetime braid, of which the present moment is a very tiny part of . this braid is the soul between two people . and of course there is the and of course there is the self-referential braid of owns own personal soul, a feedback loop of ones identity or soul for itself . and when a braid becomes entangled enough ( is the self braid already fully entangled simply by experiencing The World as they grow up ? ) but for two people , when those two braids weave themselves together over and over in repeating patterns through spacetime . you have your sections right there . or chapters I suppose scales -> other objective realities -> subjective ( three realities) -> true objective is wave ( via classical -> qm -> qft ) -> expand outwards with soul -> justify soul with spacetime braid 1 . scales 2 . realities 3 . The Wave 4 . our braids ( souls ) 5 . The Braid ( history and full size ) 6 . implications - both determined and free willed - how to treat others why the golden rule seems obvious use friend as an example of braid entanglement once removed . extension of the soul to other people a soul is a connection between two people, but those two people do not exist at the same time . likewise, the connection to yourself is between two different people: yourself, and yourself 10-100 ms in the past . the relationship between mind and body is less a connection between two things, but a singular whole that is in a continuous flow of constructing a reality, an outside world and reacting to that world . as an infant the action and reaction of moving a muscle, and your arm waving in front of you, is solidified until it appears as a single action instead of an action-reaction . you move your arm . you hardly have to think about it . what does moving your arm feel like ? there is no telling a muscle "to move" or do its thing . the same sensation can be experienced as an adult with a tool outside of ones body . craftspeople know well what it is like for a tool to feel like an extension of ones' body . like second nature . and everyone knows what its like to begin learning a tool ( " why won't my arm move that way!? " ) this feedback loop applies to the construction of a personal soul as well . you think of yourself slightly past self, form a connection to that person, taking them on as yourself, then acting on those thoughts / beliefs / feelings . those are then carried out , you react to them , and so on goes the loop . love patterns before this paragraph i will have attempted to explain highly emergent patterns the light waves are so much bigger than the atoms they interact with . that is why they pass right through the atom . a single electron or proton causes a dimple in the electromagnetic field, which causes the point-like ripple ( wavelet) to be slightly offset as it orbits around the indentation caused by the charged energy point ( or blob) . the closer to the charged center of the stretched attractive/repulsive fabric, causing an acceleration ( just change in speed ) when atoms are formed, the positive indentation and negative indentation, the push and the pull, the acceleration in the electromagnetic field . and these indentations are much closer together than the wiggles of a photon . the higher a wavelength, the more likely the photon is to approach close to the atom , where it would interact with the electron ( or wiggle in the electron field ) . if the wavelength is long, it gets closer and closer to passing near the atom in a straight line , therefore less likely to pass near the center of the dimple where the atom is at rest in its own reference frame . this is why , when(heat is just photons with a slow jiggle) the points and blobs of energy cooled down enough to combine into blobs ( indentations ) that cancelled each other out in the electromagnetic field . ripples on a pond that glue to one another, forming ever larger blobs of stuff interacting with an ever increasing number of signals (ripples in fields) ricocheting off its surface . the wavefunction for a single particle is a field with a complex number at every point in space . three values with three spins mass scales to the third power with change in volume (one time for each dimension) but the information required to describe that volume scales with the surface area (meters squared) decoherence and measurement of some quantum object are the same thing , said two different ways . the inside of a black hole is not an entire universe, at least the size of ours, it is a universe smaller than ours . the big bang is different from those smaller universes in that it was the first . but it was so big, the first universe , that it was, statistically, the most likely place you would find life ( including intelligent life like Us ) . it is still possible for life like our own to be encoded along that boundary on the surface of a black hole , but it's just much more probable that we are in the far and away biggest who you are, here and now, your Event in spacetime, was imprinted long ago when the first quantum fluctuations appeared at the event horizon , way back at the beginning . we are not a wave, first look at the quantum fluctuation wiki image, and instead of it being a 2 dimensional ripple on the surface of a pond, it is a 3 dimensional ripple changing in time . and when those first fluctuations appeared, which are encoded in small spread out waves coming into being . ( even across the entire width of the universe , spread out along Our expanse as space exponentially grew ) What you are, your body , is composed of all the information reaching the spherical shell , cosmic egg , surrounding your position in spacetime . and it is just the appearance of distance makes one think that a tiny random dot in the sky , can't possibly have any influence on you or your life . but that distant star _is_ you, just as much who you are as the tree next to you, the grass you're laying on , the apple you're holding , or the person laying next to you , whom you might deeply love . it seems so insignificant , it is , after all , one in a deep sea of billions and billions of stars if you travel out into the middle of space , where there is nothing close to you for billions of miles , where the only light is from the stars , and we were able to see ever dimmer light , we would begin to see further and further stars , what is the limit ? what is the furthest star we can see ? how dim can we get ? the limit is when the light from the distant stars , all the star closest to you outshine the light from those more distant ? (???) eventually what will you see ? nothing , then glowing gas , glowing gas to nothing to the birth of stars , the faster you get, the more energy you need to go even faster , there is a limit where things are most smooshed together , that you hit a wall (or all massive energy hits a wall) does this limit show up by containing the spread of information outwards , making a location on that boundary , a single position on the surface, the more energy you need to contain that information to that localized region . that region being the three-dimensional shell containing that object ( such as a very fast space ship ) . which can correspond to a localized circular region on the surface of a pond . you could perhaps build a spaceship (or microscopic machine ) out of the information spread out in the rest of the pond , all those ripples intermingling and mixing together , the representation of that machine encoded in the ups and downs of the surface . more and more contained to a small spot , which requires maintain a certain ' closeness ' on that surface that wants desperately to spread out , much in the same way a single drop in a pond spreads out in every direction as fast as it can . instead of a one dimensional front having a value at each point changing in time as the boundary of a two-dimensional surface like the surface of pond changing in time , it is a two-dimensional wavefront of a three-dimensional ripple changing in time . picture the spherical pond, not bound by a shore, but curled outward until it loops back upon itself forming a sphere . that's a long way of saying a spherical pond . rather than a circular pond . the spherical pond is a two-dimensional surface embedded in a three-dimensional space . and the sphere of rippling water is so large than you can't see the entire thing, there is a horizon , like there is at sea . another entity in that space could not see the entire spherical surface . anyway the sphere , move everything up one dimension, a three dimensional surface embedded in a four dimensional space ( i.e. spacetime ) a single particle spreads out in every direction . extending at the speed of light . but concentrated mostly where it is . it diffuses outward , but mostly staying in one place . it spins out into dimensions we cannot see . Most people are familiar with the frustration of learning a new mechanical task. Whether it is a construction tool, musical instrument, or an automobile, there is a period of time where there is a disparity between what you want to happen and does happen. Everybody goes through this experience with their own bodies as a baby. As an adult, you hardly have to think about the action of moving your arm, but an infant has to practice these motions . what feels like a single action, a single motion, as an adult, is really an action and a reaction that must be learned . the action is the brain telling certain muscle groups to constrict or release, and the reaction is the movement of one's arm . you can witness this process of learning in the flailing of an infants limbs . they are learning how to control their own body . learning body as baby -> learning tools as adult -> experience latency -> innate latency of reality -> extend to relationship/soul what is a soul ? it is a connection between two people , two spacetime events, existing at each instant as they were seen, all smeared into a memory of one another . a soul is sharing a connection with another human being , as fleeting as passing a stranger on the street, as strong as life-long relationship between parent and offspring . the other's mind and body is imprinted in one's mind , woven together from the microscopic gelatinous tendrils inside the volume deemed "hippocampus" , as well as those extending all throughout the brain . a soul exists in the space between two people , as ripples in the electromagnetic field traveling from one person to another, as ripples in the kinetic vibrations traveling through microscopic points of energy filling the space between one another , bouncing against their surroundings and back again . sometimes the second person is the same person at a later time . what you experience as ' real ' is always of an experience 10 to 100 milliseconds in the past , depending on the sensation being synthesized into the experience of consciousness . sensations from the eyes and ears is quickly processed ( cite 10 ms source? ) , so yeah, the soul is spread out, just like everything else, but instead of the medium being quantum fields, it is people. The soul is the space between two people, between them the electromagnetic energy of the light, and the kinetic energy of the air. Seeing and hearing other people (to say nothing of taste, touch and smell). It's a connection, less belonging to the individuals than something shared between them. The stronger the bonds you hold with other people, the greater the number of people you interact with, the stronger and larger the soul between an individual and their loved ones and well wishers. Of course a soul is not necessarily a good thing--an individual filled with hate has a soul, but it isn't strong, it isn't healthy. It isn't what a soul can and should be. You also share a soul with yourself, a life-long feedback loop between who you were then, and who you are now.

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