Anil Seth gives a very interesting look into the nature of consciousness by examining different academic works that explain that your mind & your brain are not exactly the same thing.
Your brain is a metabolic organ with structures & signaling molecules that's electro-chemical & neurotransmitters in a system of plastic adaptation thats dynamic & constantly changing both structure & function in response to what it is doing.
After watching the Anil Seth video about how we are hallucinating our reality or sense of self, our subjective sense of self & personal experience of reality as a self, I was left in a state of awe to reflect on this.
I came home after work, driving a school bus with middle school & high school students to a distant suburban area in the cold dark of night. I logged into Netflix on my gaming laptop hoping to watch Blade Runner 2049 but only the OG classic was available. I instead chose to rewatch TAO, a science fiction thriller movie that definitely got my heart pounding. I have a distant memory of watching this film long ago, but did not remember it well. For the longest time I have had a hard time remember fictional stories, knowing that they are fake & made up & discounting them as the fantasy of other people who might not be mentally sane.
Not to suggest that creative people are insane, rather than sometimes the movies contain themes & ideas that reflect psychosis or mental dysfunction, noting that in some way or others, I believe that all people are mentally unique, this slightly different, & can therein examine one another in the scope of mental illness, especially given the prevalence of anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts & other toxic negative thinking that is likely more common that most people want to recognize.
Sadly, the truth about many things in life, an unsavory topic, since some many things are not all snowflakes & butterflies & sunshine, some facts about the world are cold, cruel, dark, sick & twisted as they are evil sick people who harm, hurt & disturb other people, often for not sane reason, just because voices in their head told them too. It might be easy to discount these dysfunctional people as under the control of demonic influence or other subjective examples of boogymen or theories about dimensional aspects of higher dimensional beings that are not good. To suggest that all beings in all dimensions are good by human moral standards would preposterous. Certainly the universe as space telescopes show it, is a very dangerous, loud, radioactive, hot & very cold, or extreme place, most unsuitable for a human to exist, even with the help of protective space craft without significantly better technology that what we envision at NASA today.
The topic of TAO the movie on Netflix, extracting a persons brain function via painful emotive memories to program a new type of emotional AI, gave me great pause to think. When we take time to reflect on how we treat others, our words & actions, when we stop to think, thats where the positive inner changes in thought & brain function & structure occurs, via neural plasticity. See your mind constantly changes & adaptive throughout your life, in response to all of your experiences.
Its a miracle that we are even alive as people. Life on Earth seems rare in the universe, even if in fact it turns out that its not, when we discover other life, further out from our little solar system. See, most people think way to small, global scale considered a big worldview.
Think about God & the entire universe & other multiverses. What about other dimensional levels, higher dimensional levels. Where do the angles & demons exist. Places where time & place have no meaning, where instant travel & time travel are normal realities. This is what makes playing with the spiritual ream dangerous to a person on Earth. We are not equipped with the knowledge, tools or abilities to handle interacting with these people, just as toddlers are not equipped to invest in the stock market, go grocery shopping, driving or other skills that people have to acquire with experience in life growing up as a human person on Earth.
See, we are as humans, one people on one little blue mostly water covered planet, Earth, next to a relatively small star called the Sun. A GV2 star, the sun does not even produce the kinds of chemical elements present in the human body of which there are more than 126 elements from the periodic table of the elements in the human body. We are literally made of recycled star dust from stars much bigger than Earth's Sun. Stars much older & in vastly different parts of the universe than our humble little corner in the Milky Way galaxy, on one little spiral arm of the Milky Way. Our galactic location just one little neighborhood in billions of neighborhoods.
Folks, Human are not the only living intelligent self away conscious beings in the universe. If you deny the existence of Alien species, you are lying to yourself. Mathematically we have already proven, over & over again, that great complexity, ie life, can energy from random chaos. That entropy not the whole story in every way, there is deeper quantum reality & subatomic reality. Incredibly, we can brake the elements into atoms & atoms into sub atomic & the sub atomic into smaller parts, infinitely. Zooming out, the Earth & all the other stars & planets, its the same patterns at every scale. Perhaps the universe as we know it, itself is like the mind, hosted on a brain of sorts of a higher dimensional being.
When the Good Word of God says that God breathes star systems into existence, perhaps thats what God was saying, that star systems are life, just so great & huge that little human people on Earth can't see the forest for the tree's that comprise it, too ignorant & narrow-minded to look at the bigger reality all around us, with great cosmic irony, so distant from the facts that they delude themself into thinking they are everyone, when we all know that we are not everyone, not even on Earth among human people.
There must be other intelligent entities, but our civilization too primitive, regressive & backwards & we still trying to access space with finite chemical rockets with a mass fuel vs tank size paradox, with some people finally acknowledging that we need nuclear energy density to access space in a much bigger & more meaningful & much cheaper way.
To go to infinity & beyond, we have to master fusion energy technology & apply it to faster than light travel, Einstein Rosen wave bridge travel, warping space-time, using ZPE & any other energy technology to compress spacetime, to time travel & become an ascientient race of superhuman people who achieve biological immortality & explore the universe in a vast & massive way, like Star Trek in real life. Nothing is impossible & we can already see examples of where we need to go & how to get there with state of the art physics & chemistry, aerospace, applied technology & emergent energy technologies. We can also derive inspiration for how to develop from science fiction & other narratives, books & movies about the future, especially with respect to how to survive runaway climate change with climate control technology.
Life science giving us the way to engineer our way out of all diseases, to solve all medical disorders, rare genetic disorders, inheritable DNA errors, DNA errors caused by toxic heave metals like hexavalent chromium & ionizing radiation exposure. Information technology giving way to super human artificial intelligence. We are going to forge a brighter, cleaner, more intelligent future, where science & religions finally merge. We will worship & glorify the Lord our one God with more intensity & more vigor for finally unlocking the utopia that everyone wants with more applied science & technology to solve every problem.
We are going to have a zero crime, fully transparent future with abundant life, healthy ecosystem functioning & better wildlife, more beautiful forests, better weather, no droughts, no flooding, no unwanted storm systems, perfected wind & solar power & energy storage. We can work to remove the flaws from each person & therein remove the flaw from all human system, all business, all governments, & all products & services.
We will never make anything truly perfect, for only God able to do that, but we can perfect everything to the logical extent possible & keep pushing that boundary further & further. To infinity & beyond we will go because we have to escape the future where our own Sun will boil the oceans away from the Earth eventually.
We need to move life beyond the Earth, & to live in space we need to genetically engineer people to be resistant to radiation & cancer & mutations caused by high energy particles & energetic photons, ionizing radiation, the intense temperature regimes of space & being near or far from a star for heat & light energy. Dyson spheres will be wrapped around stars & directed energy beams will send that energy to receivers like a laser with great precision over vast distances through the near vacuum cold outer-space.
Today the Earth lies in the habitable zone, the habitable distance from the Sun, where an equilibrium in water pressure & temperature forms the atmosphere of Earth, all bodies of water, clouds made of millions of tons of water vapor, almost like homeostasis in the human bodies, a dynamic equilibrium. We live in a wet world where all electronics need to be waterproof, IP 67 or better if they are going to survive outdoors like wild animals or people swimming or showering with them.
Thinking of the AI lady in Blade Runner 2049, there will be personal digital electronic assistants like Alexa & Siri from today, but much more advanced. People will interact with these digital agents with voice, natural language. Voice is the next big thing with AI. Humans use voice, in speech & writing to communicate, why not interact with our computers this way? It seems like a natural progression away from clunky touch screens, mice & keyboards.
There will be more ways to do more things & will raise all people out of poverty, have universal animal rights, universal human rights, universal amazing healthcare access to healing & restoration technology. We will soon be able to upgrade the physical abilities of our bodies with commercialized exoskeletons, as some commercial applications are doing today to protect worker handling heavy loads. Artificial limbs will give rise to another category of consumer upgrade, on the spectrum of laser eye surgery & implants, more upgrades like zirconia teeth that are impervious to cavity & decay, strong resilient artificial ceramics. We will be able to upgrade our bone density, muscle strength, executive memory & cognitive functional capacities & capabilities, skills & knowledge, think jacking in like depicted in the Matrix movies series & downloading upgrades to your brain & mind!
