Alright, so I had this idea when I was really high
Basically, it describes how everything works in society, and how our lives are basically the matrix.
When you are born you come put your mother. You cannot interact with reality in any other way other than being a human. Yet you have the capacity to think beyond the realm of just being a human.
We have powerful psychedelics which can reveal a reality that is entirely incomprehensible and extremely difficult to put into words, that our brains visualize on high doses of these substances.
Another thing, is that our brain hallucinates our ordinary reality as well. It makes the best construct of what it takes in with the eyes and other senses and builds this reality in our mind, then we can react to it
Thus, we only know our own minds and our existence as a species. As such, we know absolutely *nothing* about the "outside world", because we never have technically been outside it. We are born *into* the universe, and then die and disappear from the universe. But yet, when we are alive, we are part of the universe. There exists no representation of the universe independent of humans. We cannot fathom it because it would require our non-existence, and as humans, we are very ego-oriented.
What if our lives are a joke, that this isn't actually our self's true purpose, but one of many? What if we have to live over and over again, as different things, as long as the universe exists, because we exist now? What if that was a requirement for living things? Or, here's the bigger question--what if Nietzsche's eternal return idea is real, we live in a multiverse, and infinite copies of us exist, and what if there are infinite timelines, so theoretically when you die in one universe you have to start over in a new universe, as such with Schrodinger's cat, where the cat is simultaneously alive and dead, but much deeper--if we die in a universe it just seems logical that we should emerge in a universe where we don't exist yet.
It does sound ego-centric but I don't see why the universe would engineer humans to observe itself in a very sloppy manner, if everything is predetermined, then why? Why this? If its predetermined then we can assume the universal wave function has collapsed but this means all other possibilities should happen as well, if a multiverse exists.
Idk where I am going with this. I guess if A-- a multiverse exists and there are infinite copies of everyone, then B-- there exists infinite timelines of everyone that has lived, will live, and is currently living.
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Very good read. Still reading. Reminds reminds me of the E8 lattice theory where all the particles in the observable universe are accounted for, and they all appear within a hyper sphere with something like 148 dimensions. They showed this E8 lattice (the 2d version is my pfp), descending from dimension to dimension, and what it would appear like in each dimension.
The text has a lot of analogies that were hard to pick up on at first, but once I put myself in that perspective, I understood what was mentioned when it came to traversing through the line universe.
Technically our lives are quite a large, if not infinite slices of space time with a light cone around us to prevent spacetime from warping or the laws of physics to break down. Essentially if we traveled at 45degrees from our light cone at the speed of light, we would have traveled half the possible distance in a certain amount of time than what we could have traversed in half the amount of time if we went parallel to the vertex of our light cone.
Everyone has one, it's just mathematical of course. But we all travel through space as something physical and if we want to get technical about it, it is likely we are 2-dimensional, and we hallucinate three dimensions, because what we see in our brain has absolutely no dimensions, physically to it. It's a mental image. But, then we think we see in three dimensions but it can be likened to a video game on a screen that is two dimensional, with a high frame rate to convince everyone it is real. Technically we could just be two dimensions, moving through a very rapid succession of 2-dimensional slices going in the direction of the arrow of time, which gives it another dimension, now we have three dimensions, and if we count past and future we cannot conceive anything more than two dimensions in slices on the past, and slices in the future.
The problem becomes, what is anyone's trajectory through the universe? Well, if we are to assume we are the only sentient humans, most of our trajectories are the same, and we fly through the universe on a crazy chaotic ride. However, if we were to consider our past, somehow it exists, and yet it doesn't exist at the same time. (Think of a picture of something in the past. The actual spacetime of that past no longer exists I don't think). If someone traveled to the past they would find that nothing can travel back with them, if they went back in time they would have to warp all of space back towards them, which would break causality
If someone moved on through the future, then inevitably dies and ceases to be anything but an assortment of atoms in one umiverse, what happens to their future light cone in other universes, if we are to infer a multiverse? Surely there is a universe where their light cone has to remain constant, and also their timeline. This is under the added assumption that the universe, or multiverse, needed to create humans, or at least sentient beings, to exist. Which again, I struggle to comprehend.
I've seen E8 lattice geometry on trips. Does it mean that absolute reality has a wonderous shape and quite a lot of hidden dimensions? Possibly. It's the only way I see quantum gravity working, is if it had its counter particles to gravitons in the E8 model.
I just see us on this human existence, and yes, it might as well be a line. We have explored almost nothing and even if we did, we still don't confidently know what is outside of our own heads. But we built a giant society with hierarchy and complex structures, and laws, and then we all coalesced around these ideas and now, that is all life is, is existing in this society. But, that is our biggest limitation imho, because we will always be looking outward to expand society but I think the answer to how the multiverse works, and thus also, how humans play a role in the universe, lies in our brains, and at the smallest scales of matter.
Edited by skOsH (10/25/20 01:47 PM)
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