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Multiple Realities from a visual and philosophical theory of everything


21 May

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page 74-75 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Have we other realities in our link (gravity grouping) with every other bit of matter and in every possible combination of groupings of matter in our universe and possibly others?

Do we perceive only that which is within our own peculiar granularity or in a certain neighborhood of the perspective horizon? Do we change depending upon with whom we are currently grouping?

Everything is part of infinite other entities. Nothing is without inner entities. And we are part of it all…no getting out, just moving from perspective to perspective. Not only knowing each other in previous groupings, but actually being the same entity at different times and in different combinations…including now: Grouping into families, friendship circles, spiritual groups, work groups, cities, countries, the Earth, the Milky Way.

These are multiple realities that I can wrap my arms around. Laws decreed by humans appear to be physical laws to the cosmos. Laws decreed by the subatomic become physical laws to humans. Maybe the reason electrons are found only in particular shells at specific distances around the nucleus of an atom is the same reason that no one lives in the middle of a freeway. Even street people live on the sidewalk, not the street.

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Fruits of Knowledge


23 Mar

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Fruits of Knowledge

page 70-71 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Do we categorize and database [the storage of information linked to other information, e.g. companies linked to contacts, linked to phone numbers and email addresses] because at some microscopic level individual sentiences hold individual pieces of information—information that when put together forms a society with its own flavor based on the informational ingredients. The final recipe might be for an individual, a species or a universe.

Do we categorize and database so that individually and as a collective society enormous amounts of information become available to us, which enables more people to create more complex works, which creates a more complex combined entity? Is this the same pattern that I was seeing in the DNA database?

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Time Frozen


12 Mar

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Time Frozen

page 68-69 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Are time, size and fashion sense specific and unique to every entity grouping? I experience time differently from hour to hour, day to day, year to year. Do our clocks and calendars just allow us to keep in sync with the earth’s cycle—an entity grouping of which we are a part? Do we synchronize our watches as part of our grouping thing with the earth? Is it the same phenomenon as women’s periods syncing when they live together?

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The Play of Light


01 Mar

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The Play of Light

page 66-67 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

There is a famous experiment that involves shooting photons through a hole in a screen and measuring the pattern the photons make on a second screen designed for this purpose. They make a circular pattern as would be expected from a particle. Then a second hole is cut in the first screen so that the photons have two ways of passing through this screen to make their pattern on the second screen. They make a bar pattern which is the trademark pattern of two waves interfering with each other.

I rather like current explanations that light has a dual nature of particle and wave, however, has anyone ever tried this same experiment using human beings instead of photons? There could be a queue-up area with one open door to another room. The people could go through this door one at a time, walk across a room, put their hand print somewhere on the far wall, then go stand wherever they wish. Both the hand prints and end location of the person could be tracked. Then repeat the experiment with two doors open.

It would be interesting to know if different patterns appeared depending on whether the group was composed of people from the same school; from the same family; from the same town; the same age; the same background…. Any one of these factors could be the critical one that compares to wavelength.

Are the photons making decisions? Are they following a pattern based on their life style? Do they know what choice the photons before them made? Are they all one entity and in synchrony with each other because of this? Does the scientist’s measuring of the experiment create a grouping between the scientist and the photons? Does a watched pot boil at a different rate than an unwatched pot due to the added weight of the watcher in the group?

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Cosmic Dancing


06 Jan

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Cosmic Dancing

page 62-63 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Chaos Theory states that you can’t predict the future, for example the weather, because you would need to know the exact state (mass, position and speed—which is impossible according to other current laws of physics) of every molecule in the system.

Infinite Sentience says you will never be able to predict the same phenomenon because it would be like trying to predict exactly who will stay home from work today in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Different decisions made by different entities and affected by the decisions made by still different entities will make the task absolutely impossible.

Patterns and trends are the only possibilities. But a pattern or trend on a nano-cosmic (really tiny) level could well look like a scientific law on our level. Or a pattern or trend on our level could well look like a scientific law on a tetra-cosmic (really big) level.

Electrons and photons are said to lack individuality. All electrons in the universe are thought to be interchangeable as are all photons. Could this be a granularity issue? All MUNI bus drivers may be interchangeable as drivers, but they aren’t interchangeable in the rest of their lives. Every time we are able to zoom in closer on anything we find more detail and more complexity. Could this be true of electrons and photons also? Maybe, like the MUNI bus drivers, they are interchangeable in certain roles (the ones of which we are aware), but entirely individual in other roles.

Is it not possible that our own devices that have given us a glimpse into the subatomic world, are only tracking one factor of one entity and that there are an infinite number of other entities that make that world as rich as our own, with symbiotic and parasitic relationships, environmental issues, personal and societal values, happiness, suffering and decision-making?

If an atom were the size of the solar system, a string would be the size of a tree on Earth. Ken Ford states in his book The Quantum World , that with every breath you take you inhale more atoms than there are stars in the known universe! Just think of how many atoms we share with Everything Else.

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Change


27 Oct

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Change

page 44-45 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

The process of feeding and caring for a body can be equated with that of feeding and caring for a society. Give a body everything it needs to stay healthy and eventually it will still fail and die. Sometimes it will fail and die young, even though it was given all it should have needed to stay healthy.

Wealth and prosperity bubble through an empire, rising out of the masses to concentrate in a few at the top who become more extravagant in their abuse of power and form extreme situations for those at the bottom. Something then happens to change the strength of the state, either internal or external war, possibly, or just a drifting in of outsiders and a drifting out of insiders, until the empire collapses.

I see the same pattern in fashion. The codpieces (hairstyles; skirt lengths….) get more and more extravagant until they reach some critical point and the fashion collapses. I discover curry and eat so much of it that I can no longer bear the smell. What’s going on? Why do animals get larger? Is nature a size queen? Do some of the fantastic designs of nature exist for the same reason that individuals take fashions to the extreme…like boys’ pants getting larger?

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A Piece of the Puzzle


20 Oct

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A Piece of the Puzzle

page 40-41 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

What is happening when two people report the exact same incident differently? Each individual person’s micro cosmos (using information provided by DNA) that built either the telescopes (eyes) or the media reporting the information back to the colony (the brain), is, as would be expected of a society, different in every one of us. Not, however, so different that we can’t trace the roots or heritage of the entire colony to a certain extent—like tracing the movement of the Celtic people across Europe to Ireland and then Scotland—or watching a family nose or smile pass from generation to generation- –or recognizing that the two people are describing the same event.

Could DNA truly be just a series of non-sentient molecules, which makes mistakes every time it replicates, some of which are successful “mutations” (a really negative word for something so incredible), but most of which are not? How can something with no decision-making capabilities make mistakes?

Or is DNA an infrastructure for proteins, the body’s worker bees? Is the splitting and reforming of DNA controlled by individual proteins making individual decisions? Is DNA the database of available data and the protein the programmer manipulating the data? Are our individual hair or blood or skin or eye cells the end report produced by these programmers?

Popular application software is always operated in ways not even considered by its developers. Sometimes this is a positive, certainly for the user who has discovered the shortcut. Sometimes this is a negative, causing some instability in the program, data or document that is not discovered until huge problems arise. Is this similar to an uninformed decision by a DNA molecule, or by the protein expressing it, creating a negative mutation?

If the process of DNA replication is built on the decisions of the molecules and atoms (and infinite other even smaller entities to lesser and lesser degrees) involved, it would be impossible to believe that it could ever be exactly the same twice…which appears to be the case. Infinite Sentience would predict that it would never be the same twice. Infinite Sentience predicts Infinite Diversity.

However, if, as current scientific paradigms would have me believe, on some elemental level all particles are identical, how is it possible that we have infinite diversity on all other levels? If all the bricks are identical, should there not be at least two snowflakes alike?

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A Closer Look by Someone Else


13 Oct

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A Closer Look by Someone Else

page 37 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

The pattern changes when someone else in a different location on the persepective horizon is holding the camera.

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Infinity in a Nipple


11 Oct

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Infinity in a Nipple

page 34-35 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Let’s take our thought experiment further by erasing all the lines in the shifting sand that we have made between living matter and non-living matter; between plant and animal; between reptile and mammal—categories that were created by us and that have fuzzy lines between them: is a virus living? all mammals bear their young live and nurse them, except the platypus….there are always exceptions because we made up the rules. The rules don’t exist in and of themselves. If there is even one creature identified which does not fit wholly in one category or another, then there is no real line, just man-made categories. Are we driven to databases? Or are we just following Queen TUT’s patterns of grouping by grouping our data?

Now that those lines are erased, let’s back up to before there were one-celled creatures. Would the pattern then be the same? Did/do atoms group together into molecules for symbiotic or parasitic reasons or just for fun or because the atoms next to them were grouping? Or for any of the multiplicity of reasons that political systems rise and fall?

Did molecules follow the same pattern to form DNA strands, which attracted some other types of molecules for some other reason—like the large fish that have the smaller fish clean parasites off of them, perhaps—to form cells, which formed colonies which began to act in concert and became unable to act independently which then hung out in bunches of colonies which became shoals or bee hives or ant colonies or organs or cities or galaxies, the members of which are also not able to live independently any more?

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Gravity Crusades


20 Sep

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The Gravity Crusades

page 30-31 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Are we in a place in history comparable to the times of Copernicus and Galileo? In their respective times and places, the Earth with humans ruling it was at the center of Everything and larger than Everything Else. We are now used to the idea that we are ruling a small planet in a large galaxy in a universe of galaxies. However, we still think our configuration is the center of intelligent life. Out of all the multitude of groupings of matter that we know exist between the subatomic and the cosmic, between the small and the large, our size is the only presumed place where intelligent life could evolve?

If there are these infinite groupings—the gravity groupings—then there has been time for intelligent groupings to evolve on infinite levels along the perspective horizon between the infinities of sub-sub-sub-atomic and the infinities of universes.

Are we ready for a new paradigm in science where humanity’s role is not elevated above the rest of the universe (infinite universes?), but is smack in the middle of its infinite infinities, just like Everything Else?

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Original Cosmic Nipple in the Corner of My Bedroom


20 Sep

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Cosmic Nipple in the Corner of My Bedroom

This is the original Cosmic Nipple…the one that I painted on the ceiling in the corner of my bedroom. The interesting part about this is that it was painted before I started writing my theories…though I was already thinking of them, so maybe it isn’t so odd. It seems to represent the multi dimensional grid that warps this way and that, depending on one’s position on the perspective horizon.

I have also created many checker boards that are warped and abstracted from the original grid in much this same way. It could be argued that the game of checkers is an abstracted version of war or conquest. The terrain of a real war is much more complex and has been abstracted to a board game. I am now taking that simplified abstraction and creating something more abstract and more complex. A wave of reality turning into a wave of abstraction turning into a wave of reality turning into a wave of abstraction.

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Cosmic Nipple in the Corner of My Bedroom


17 Sep

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Cosmic Nipple in the Corner of My Bedroom

page 28-29 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

To make the pattern complete, a new sentience must be created with every grouping, even a group of two…again, think gravity. If it doesn’t start adding a new sentience at two, what critical weight—and exactly what would we be weighing—would need to be reached to create that new sentience? We’d be back to emergence.

We have all experienced the different dynamics between hanging out (grouping) with one friend and then adding another friend to the mix. Is each grouping a different entity?

I picture the gravity groupings much like Einstein’s gravity fields: a multi-dimensional grid that warps where there are objects that are within the scope of my perspectives, but which would appear to warp differently to other entities coming from other perspectives. An entity grouping the size of a quark would not easily notice the warp our sun makes in the grid; an entity the size of the galaxy would not easily notice the warp I make in the grid. We are embedded much too deeply in our universe to notice the warp other universes make in the grid.

If there is no final building block of matter, the warp in the grid IS the sun, the human, the quark…. The warp itself would be the entity, which would be the intersection of other groups of entities. This grid is another way of picturing the perspective horizon.

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The Anthropomorphication of Science


15 Aug

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The Anthropomorphication of Science

page 22-23 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Anthropomorphize: to attribute human form or personality to something that is not human.

I would like to remove the “naughty science” ban against anthropomorphizing that has constrained human science from Newton to the present. Humans seem especially unable to anthropomorphize that which is either too small (a photon, a molecule, a virus) or too large (a star, a galaxy, a cluster of galaxies). Why? This simple change in our thinking would put us into a pattern that repeats endlessly…grouping, disassembling and regrouping.

These thoughts allow religion, philosophy and art to be compatible with science. Are we the cultural, artistic, political, technical…achievements of our inner cosmos? Are we creating other entities through the groupings involved in our own cultural, artistic, political, technical… achievements?

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Time Passing


02 Aug

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Time Passing

page 20-21 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

I am offering for discussion the theory that the vast colonies of microbes, bacteria and other entities of which we are made, combined for the same reasons that humans combine: they made decisions; they are still making decisions; our cities are making decisions; galaxies are making decisions; the atoms that combined to form molecules and the molecules that combined to form DNA were and ARE all making decisions.

No clockwork universe in my world!

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Adam and Eve


30 Jul

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Adam and Eve

page 18-19 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

I have been dissatisfied with the current explanations of how humans emerged from non-sentient primates. The religious evolutionists propose that God blew the spirit into man. The scientific emergence theories seem to have the same breath happening, it’s just paced differently—it takes place over a much longer period of time.

But what did that first glimmer of sentience look like? What was it made up of? What is it made up of today?

If Everything is sentient and always was sentient, then there is no need for this breath of spirit or emergence of sentience. The spirit was always here. The sentience was always there. Everything is spirit/sentience.

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The Perspective Horizon


11 May

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The Perspective Horizon

page 12-13 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

I call these infinite perspectives the perspective horizon. We all sit in a different position on this perspective horizon and are only able to see those entities that are within our own specific range. This perspective horizon extends infinitely in all directions.What is the fundamental, underlying principle of a tapestry? Are the micro-fibers more important than the overall pattern of the tapestry? Are both absolutely fundamentally equal from their individual places on the perspective horizon? The pattern can be used on different mediums; the medium of the tapestry can be used for different patterns. Can we imagine an entity for which the medium is critical but the pattern is invisible…a blind person? Can we imagine the opposite?

Even if we allow the vibrating strings of String Theory [Note: According to String Theory, protons and neutrons are made of quarks under which sit vibrating strings of varying, possibly infinite, frequencies in ten dimensions (nine spatial plus time), maybe creating a waveparticle duality between the quark and the string. Electrons, photons and other subatomic particles would also be strings. The grouping of these wave loops would lie at the bottom of Everything according to this theory.] to be the smallest unit of sentience, rather than just as small as we can currently theorize, that unit doesn’t necessarily describe the whole any better than any other point on the perspective horizon, as the perspective horizon remains infinite. All points (of view?) on it are exactly in the middle as each point would be surrounded by infinities.

Does every person, place, thing, political point of view, religion, or other ideology, work choice, reading choice, past time choice, fashion choice, relationship choice carry its own validity from its own particular unique place on the perspective horizon? Maybe no place on this perspective horizon is any more special than any other place on this perspective horizon. Maybe nothing is more fundamental than anything else. Could the study of food or dance or ants or cells all show us patterns that help us understand the totality of our universe every bit as well as the study of fundamental particles or of the cosmos?

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Theory of Infinite Sentience


29 Apr

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Infinite Sentience

page 10-11 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

  • Sentience: a state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness

  • Sentient: responsive to or conscious of sense impressions; aware; finely sensitive in perception or feeling

   

I would like to explore the possibility that our universe is run by Infinite Sentience from the subatomic to the cosmic. Maybe humans are not the only sentient beings on this planet, but a part of a pattern of sentience, tied to groupings, which exists on infinite levels.  

Maybe things happen because infinite numbers of decisions are being made by infinite numbers of sentient entities coming from infinite grouping and size perspectives—infinity to the power of infinity.  

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