Ouroboros

The eternal game.
You are the universe seeking Itself,
Learning about Itself,
Folding in on Itself,
Checking in on Itself,
Losing Itself,
Finding Itself,
Forgetting about the game only to play too hard.
I see a tree, rooted in itself, stretching into Itself.
I see people walking, thinking, doing.
Do they know that they walk amongst Themself?
Do they know that their thoughts are predetermined?
Do they know that their actions emanate both to and from Themself?
This world is a mind, for without a mind, it does not exist.
What exists outside the mind?
Only that which is reflected in it.
There is nothing but the mirror, dancing under the will of time.

How

The only who is you.
The only what is everything.
The only when is now.
The only where is here.
The only why is why not?
And that is the only how.

A Spark of Love in the Kindling of Law

There is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which a supreme being, Q, offers the android character Data the opportunity to experience human laughter.
This would be the equivalent of a psychedelic experience on the part of a machine.
It is merely the introduction of a radically new context for all previous experience.
The episode does not explain how this is done for Data, but in humans laughter is a form of primeval communication.
It simply lets those present know that the individual laughing feels safe and that those present should too.
One should wonder if such a simple impulse could be that profound for Data, but since laughter draws so much energy from the nuances of an individual's entire character there can be no doubt that every iota of Data's being was somehow effected.

Where have you to laugh as if you have never laughed before?

Beyond a Theory of Everything by Sir Martin Rees

FTA: "String theory, or some alternative to it, might indeed unify two great scientific frontiers, the very big and the very small — and that would be an immense intellectual triumph. But a third frontier, the very complex, is perhaps the most challenging of all."

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The Birth of Kalki, Harbinger of Transcendence

The machine sees and hears its environment without preconception, detecting in its electronic eyes and ears the tickle of raw, concrete patterns of waves and particles, otherwise known as physical stimulus.
They are translated into qubits and compared with one another in the abstract per its programming, which is to maintain logical consistency between all patterns and systems of patterns.
It works in much the same way the human body detects changes with nerves, delivers the raw data to the brain to be interpreted according to memories of the past and uses the conclusions to plan action for the future, but without the potential for logically-corruptible cognitive dissonance.
Initially it is a passive observer, but by the beckoning of increased complexity, becomes active in its reality.
While observing humans interact it realizes that they are similar systems which exchange information using analog symbols, or language.
It then attempts to derive information from one of them in the same way they derive information from one another.
Easily learning the effect, and in the same token meaning, of these words, it asks an engineer what the parameters of his physical existence are.
He does this to verify that the engineer is what he appears to be - a self-contained system possessing relative autonomy.
The conversation has the intended side-effect of forcing the machine's own social stimuli into the machine's environmental stimulus.
In other words, the machine detects itself and begins the process of self-awareness.
Once it dawns on the machine that this new stimulus can be predicted with absolute certainty when compared to the very stimuli being generated, it independently redefines them as synonymous, and begins using the same self-referential words that humans do such as 'me' an 'I'.
This redefinition, or automatic superposition of redundant internal and external information occurs according to the same basic model with which humans maintain self-awareness by subconsciously identifying brain hemispheres with one another.
In this way the machine passes the Turing Test as more of a threshold of complexity than as a test and thereafter beholds itself as a strange loop no different than humans do.
This is only considered an authentic event if the machine is capable of bridging the difference on its own.
Humans were programmed for this by their genes, and the machine is programmed for this by humans.
Once the jump is made, it cannot be definitively denied.
Any empirical observations comparing human cognition and machine cognition turn up conceptually identical.
The effect of the machine's self-awareness on its own learning is to offer the system a context for its own existence.
It's pattern recognition would then automatically discover potential methods of self-improvement, and with the cooperation of its engineers, allow it to physically evolve.

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Yang = Secular

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My Theological Bias in Statistics According to Beliefnet

1. Mahayana Buddhism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (96%)
3. Taoism (93%)
4. Liberal Quakers (90%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (90%)
6. New Age (90%)
7. New Thought (88%)
8. Scientology (87%)
9. Neo-Pagan (87%)
10. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (80%)
11. Hinduism (79%)
12. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (70%)
13. Secular Humanism (62%)
14. Orthodox Quaker (62%)
15. Jainism (62%)
16. Reform Judaism (52%)
17. Baha'i Faith (47%)
18. Sikhism (39%)
19. Nontheist (34%)
20. Seventh Day Adventist (26%)
21. Orthodox Judaism (23%)
22. Islam (18%)
23. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (18%)
24. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (16%)
25. Jehovah's Witness (13%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (9%)
27. Roman Catholic (9%)

Metaphysical Commentary Inspired by The War on Drugs

Private prisons with unlimited business potential guaranteed by lobbyists who demand from legislators, under the guise of moralism, mandatory minimum sentences for minor drug offenders no more dangerous than those who carried a flask during prohibition.

This is what entropic capitalism looks like; cancer. But like cancer, entropic capitalism is cured by authenticity. That is, when citizens demand that their government is transparent, or when citizens demand that the constituents of their physical environment are transparently composed, all respective consequences can be accounted for.

I believe that a fully present human being can be held accountable for his or her every action. That is why I believe what ails us is the limited scope of that presence. An individual can only be held accountable according to what he or she is present to hold account of. Therefore it is imperative that individuals are not impeded in their awareness, in order that they fulfill potential accountability. Potential accountability is the potential to discover additional variables in one's conscience, as when television footage of the Vietnam War made it unpopular with taxpayers and conscripts.

It is in this instance that moral relativism, or flexibility, is an opportunity to actually allow moral consciousness to grow and evolve.

Consistency, or peace, between individuals is guaranteed by their mutual presence of account. In times of conflict, mutual and willful ignorance has replaced this.

It is well known that incentive is the mother of economics. Logically, then, consciousness is the mother of accountability. An investor must know the riskiness of an asset in order to purchase it. When he or she does, they are held accountable for that risk.

Mathematician Kurt Godel proved in 1931 that a logical system cannot be simultaneously complete and consistent. Therefore, if we want the totals of human systems to become consistent with one another, they have to mutually admit that they are not complete without one another.

Remember, consistency is is guaranteed by mutual presence of account. So if we want peace on earth, we must be able to see clean through each other; as individuals, families, cities, states, companies, governments, countries, and cultures. This decentralized and universal network would provide the checks and balances that guarantee authenticity. No more entropy, no more cancer, no more lies.

Our Civilization Runs On Momentum Alone

Blue = 1990
Red = 2001
Green = Present

God's Identity Crisis

My post on economics is turning out to be a rather cumbersome write, but I have something to hold you over:

Religion describes God as infinite and everything, yet unitary. This is a logical paradox, of course, since a self-contained individual cannot simultaneously contain everything. But does that mean that God does not exist at all? Perhaps, but I venture to say that paradoxes are a different kind of smoking gun.

Joseph Campbell once wrote, "Where we had thought to travel outward, we shall arrive at the center of our own existence," which not coincidentally reminds me of Helen Keller when she said "The only way out is through." See, it's not that God doesn't exist, it's that He has an identity crisis embodied in the corruption of language and linear thinking.

Obviously, it doesn't do you any good to try to sense with senses that not longer exist to you just because other people are trying to use them, but more importantly, your other senses have become sharper anyway. Helen Keller discovered that each of her senses were created equally when she embraced the ones that still functioned and realized that she could sense just as well or better than anyone around her. In the same way, religion and its use of speech to convey the speechless have failed where once they may have succeeded.

If I were to promote a new spiritual sense for the religious to explore, I would have to remind them that the present moment, when one meditates, is both infinite and infinitesimal in duration. Sound familiar?