connecting dots...
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?p=532058#p532058If the Orch/OR theory is correct, it should be accessible within a few years (if not already) to construct a brain-like structure with neuron-analogs and microtubule proteins and support it's existence outside an entire body system, an artificial brain if you will, and if such a playing field is built, something should voluntarily enter into it most likely.
Wouldn't it be funny if mankind's first artificial brain when it's first switched fully on, wakes up and announces that it is currently hosting a portion of some dead man and he's got a lot to say. Who should that be? Einstein? Maybe some 'nobody' - has to be someone who lived within the last 100 years, who would be recognizable, speak a relatively unchanged language and able to provide verifiable info to authenticate it's identity.
anyway, story-seed aside, there must be some REASON why we don't already know and accept the reality of this. What is the reason or reasons?
possibilities:
1. perhaps there's "no reason to wait" - everyone could shuffle off this mortal coil and happily go on as disembodied entities at any time. Were this widely known, it would result in a global suicide epidemic of near-total proportions, and make killing generally seem less of a big deal. That would be a problem for "esthetic reasons" perhaps ethical reasons or practical reasons or? Perhaps the will-to-suicide overrides the default survival behavior of consciousness and allows a person to actually be killed-by-death (though not absolutely certain to result in KbD it may make it more possible (somewhat akin to turning off your computer without "properly shutting it down"))
2. This question seems to assume some coordinated and effective "conspiracy" that would involve parties on "both sides" agreeing to keep this knowledge fairly well suppressed. Should we be worried about that? Just how far might "they" go to keep this unknown?
3. all this talk of holograms glosses over a key point, a hologram doesn't look like anything, that is, remains in a purely unrealized potential state, until you shine some light on it. Now perhaps the "background noise" of the universe provides everywhere a modicum of available energy, but that would be at quite a low level. It may well be that some sort of periodic embodiment is required to allow the conscious entities to retain coherence long term, this based on the seeming likelihood that the embodiment process allows a net energy flow "up" to the holographic/quantum-entangled/whatever seat of consciousness. Energy input would be required to maintain and change the structure.
4. unfortunately this really opens up the possibility that "as below, so above" really means there MAY be some competition for energy resources taking place "up there" - while the "light of god" or whatever may well be sufficient to maintain the structures of individuality in a fairly unchanging state, to enable real motility and interactivity, may require infusions of more energy. The "universe" or World may well have been created to provide an effective method to provide for the energy needs of sustaining a growing population of individual loosely-separated entities. ie - the willing dissipation of god throughout it's creation to allow it to perceive itself from a near infinite variety of individual vantage points. All remains as a part of the whole, while also able to function with a fairly high degree of independence.
One way of thinking of this energy MAY be as stores of highly-ordered low-entropy which is expended to maintain the highly ordered structure of the 'higher self' - the fundamental sign of life is a system that works to maintain a zone of low entropy against the ravages of thermodynamic dissipative reality.
like if a highly complex cellular-automata structure existed it would likely want to maintain parts of itself that send off "Gliders" that provide causal energy to other parts of itself to 'function'
I wonder if anyone's ever done any work with cellular automata systems that have imperfect rule enforcement and virtual-pair creation/annihilation type stuff going on.
5. so, this maybe isn't entirely all "good news" necessarily.
6. entities can likely be classified in a hierarchy of "size" (aka total gross complexity of system, aka the total number of moving parts in the machine). So some Beings may be larger than others. Very Large Beings may even make deals to "feed" energy to smaller entities, on the understanding that the sponsored entity will go out and use a portion of it's activities to provide more energy up to the VLB. A spiritual ponzi scheme if you will.
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