How to View the World on a Continuous Spectrum
I’ve already solved consciousness. It has an exact answer.
In this tutorial, I’m going to explain a different way to look at the world. This has nothing to do with solving consciousness—but it's fun.
Your Body Is on a Continuous Spectrum
This means your bladder is filling up right now, drip by drip. But when you notice it, the experience is binary—yes or no. And when you do notice it, you feel it with a certain intensity.
The point is: you don’t feel every single drip in your bladder as it happens. But it's still happening, every second. And that’s the point.
It Happens on a Continuous Spectrum
Noticing it, though, is binary (yes or no).
This is level one of thousands of levels of consciousness. These levels also exist vertically, diagonally, in sound, light, taste—even interdimensionally. I wouldn’t be able to explain how bizarre this is unless you’ve experienced it.
There’s a group of people always on the quest—
"What are we doing here?"
"Is it safe?"
"What are the fundamentals of reality?"
And then… there are others.
Double Imprisonment
The problem with explaining consciousness is this:
You are reading letters right now. I am typing. I am already bound to the shape of the letter.
Take the letter A, for example.
I am already forced into the shape of the letter A. On top of that, I am bound to the language in which we happen to describe reality here.
I have to squeeze reality—which is infinitely vast—into a tiny prison of 26 letters.
It’s like trying to push something enormous through a tiny pipe: it just doesn’t work.
Luckily, I’m stubborn enough to try anyway—but man, oh man.
Therefore, drawing with a pencil is already easier, because your hand can go in every direction. It's not bound to the shape of letters.
Within these sets of rules, we have to explain what consciousness is.
Wat vrijheid betekent
Ik heb sinds de basisschool al problemen met getallen. Ik geloof helemaal niet dat getallen bestaan. Ik heb nog nooit een getal in het echt gezien.
En om de werkelijkheid nou met getallen te labelen, tja... Ik doe het persoonlijk liever niet. Er gaat te veel waardevolle informatie over het object verloren.
Ik ben gek op taal, maar letters hebben hetzelfde probleem.
Je wordt gedwongen om met een vorm van een letter, bijvoorbeeld een A, te werken. En dan in een setje van 26 letters. Voor mij zijn dat al twee gevangenissen in elkaar.
What Freedom Means
I’ve had issues with numbers since primary school. I don’t really believe numbers exist. I’ve never seen a number in real life.
And to label reality with numbers… well. Personally, I’d rather not. Too much valuable information about the object gets lost.
I love language, but letters have the same problem.
You’re forced to work with the shape of a letter, like an A, for example. And then in a set of just 26 letters. To me, that’s two prisons inside each other.