Reclusland

Matter is nothing by itself.

Conciousness/Spirit is, by itself, but it does nothing.

When Spirit enters matter, life/energy is born.  This was essentially whatever actually happened when what we call the big bang happened.

From there, life began to order itself, to allow more and more spirit to enter and enliven more and more matter.  It built up forms, atoms, elements, molecules, and when it reached a certain level of life, when enough conciousness was invested into enough matter, concious life was born.  From there, evolution, for lack of a better word took over, a built creatures up to the conciousness level of humans.  We are a plateau in conciousness, things stopped growing with us.  We had the potential to become aware of spirit, and hopefully one day to act in accordance with it, to guide it as it enters more and more fully into matter.

Computers, virtual realities, might be preparing us for this.  We get used to the fact that reality is maleable, and evetually, it becomes malleable to us.  Even reality television, online games like second life, even off line games are like this.  This is our way of leading ourselves blindly to the realization that the force of spirit can be guided.  Quantum Mechanics and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle seems to suggest something like this.

What if the earth was flat until Magellean sailed around it?  What if there was nothing beyond earth until Newton came up with the computations that allowed it to exist?  That it sprang into being once matter and conciousness had reached that high of a level?  Why so much space?  Perhaps at some point we will need to have this much space in order to accomplish something.

People worry about the real world being replaced by a simualtion, but I don’t know if that should be a concern.  If we can learn to simulate the world, it really just our way of making sense of it.  It can be seen as training wheels, which we discard when we can ride the bike of the spirit without assistance.  When we are concious enough to live with the consequances of whatever mistakes we might make.

One argument for having a virtual world is that people would be able to have more control over it.  “I want things to do what I want”. But this is childish, how do you know what you want?  Can you choose whether or not you want something?  Given the complete freedom over making absolutely anything we desire occur, we grow bored and search for new challenges.  The end-game of absolute control is meaningless, as we only crave control because we think that we do not have it.  The more we do have it, and have it just for the sake of having control, the less meaning it has for us, and the more we want some standard rules or regulations to guide us.

I do think some huge change is going to come, perhaps.  But see it as anything other than a massive re-envisioning of what everything in reality means is to miss the point.  Reality, in and of itself, and conciousness, in a of itself, mean nothing.   Only when the two combine, and they combine exactly here and exactly now, no where else, does meaning arise.

There is far too much going on beneath the scenes for us to think we can replicate life in any way that will have any meaning to us.

Anyway, I need to stop.  This is too much right now…