Heaven is an experimental idea-space that translates into the physical world
Smashing Earth’s resources through a 0–1 binary device doesn’t seem like a fantastic plan. But I guess you people love AI a lot.
Our universe is multidimensional. That means we can talk about the same thing from different dimensions. Mind and brain, for example. Sometimes we’re talking about one thing from a different angle. These angles you call dimensions. Some people are very good at finding new angles, others only look at reality from one angle over and over. It’s not that they’re wrong, but they are missing the other part.
This is why “regular” history and the history in the Bible can perfectly co-exist, since they exist in different dimensions.
I know, it’s annoying. One side has to be wrong, right? How can religious people be so stupid as to believe someone can walk on water?
Well, since some parts inside your body actually are water, you are kind of walking on water already. It’s another dimension. They co-exist. Try it — that’s where the fun is.
Back to AI. The problem with AI is that it is limited to what we understand of the world. A computer can create new things, but it can’t create something it has never “heard” of. It can’t play in games it never played. AI can only play in one dimension. This is important to understand, because we can get placed into other dimensions that the computer has no access to. That’s why it’s important to stick together. A computer is like a thought. When you try something new, all your thoughts know is what they already know. They don’t know what they don’t know.
I don’t want to go kickboxing because I fear all the outcomes I can imagine. But I don’t know the outcomes I don’t know — maybe I meet the love of my life, or something else happens when I decide to go.
Ideas are important for the physical world. If I have the idea that the world can be conquered, and that I can “win” something — economically for instance — then this idea has an effect on the physical world. This idea may spread to other countries. Now all those countries want to fight and be the greatest in the world too. Completely imaginary — it’s a competition that never stops.
If we would all live by the idea that competition is imaginary (it kind of is), then we might actually have a shot at saving the Earth.
It’s like the idea that you can own something. Yes, I live in an expensive apartment too, but owning something is strange. Can I own a molecule? Can I own a stack of molecules?
Traditionally, heaven was an idea-space where people debated these things and experimented a lot — even with their own bodies. Can you own your own body? Can you own those molecules? Buddhists think there is no “you.” Buddhists basically think that thoughts are not yours either; you just identify with them. Fascinating. I would never look at reality like that. I would always want to be responsible for my own thoughts and feelings, since they are physically inside me. Otherwise it’s like saying, “Here, take over my lungs too.” But I get the train of thought. If a body is a stack of molecules that have been here since the beginning of time, then what exactly is “me”?
I think Buddhists make the same mistake I made with kickboxing: you narrow reality down to what you know, and you don’t understand that there are things you don’t know — outside the molecules.
If you only believe science and evolution, you should be worried about rebirth. But you’re not. You sense there are things you haven’t figured out.
Doing It Like You
You had to be there. Even if the exact same set of molecules were to form again, no one would ever do it the way you do.
This is also an important lesson for people who feel stuck in labels like ADHD or autism. These are generic labels. No one will ever do things exactly the way you do, or see the world the way you see it.
* Why a human is more than a stack of molecules
Why we think
Thinking is like splashing water. It makes perfect sense that we are both the one thinking the thought and the one hearing it. You splash the water in your head, thoughts splash up, and you reflect. This is because you need to form opinions about past and future energy states. It tells you, for instance, something about the state of your organs. Thinking is therefore one of the most useful instruments there is. And the more you do it, the better you get at it.
By the way, thinking about the past or future doesn’t mean you “leave the here and now.” You can’t leave the here and now — literally. What is possible, though, is that you don’t want to be somewhere, push away emotions, and therefore have to reflect and fix a lot later in life.
* In this narrative, what Buddhists do is refocus on the breath, which is more centered, while the thought-splashing happens more on the sides. Therefore: never become a Buddhist — they are completely missing the point of how a body works.
Stable versus unstable
By learning about our universe, we create a more stable position.
For example, indirectly: by knowing the weather, we can anticipate. By knowing the animals, we know what a balanced universe looks like.
A universe without creatures that expand knowledge is more unstable.
By not knowing each other, we create instabilities like war. The more connected we are, the less war there is.