Why there is a highest Transcendence in the form of consciousness sustaining a virtual reality we call reality:
Reality is that which contains all and only that which is real. There are no things or beings outside of reality for if they are real, they are per definition included in reality. Whatever can influence reality is per definition part of reality. This excludes external causes. (Stasis, Thesis).
As reality is not random but coherent, well regulated and profoundly ordered it must have an orderly cause, (this resonates with Samkhya philosophy: because the effect is like/implicit in the cause) as nothing can come from nothing.
This is because events are either causally connected or if not then the present is independent of the past and no order can come about. There is an ultimate cause to reality, which is not random (because already what we experience life, the universe and everything is not random). Everything must be implicit in this cause (this resonates with David Bohm's "implicate order"). (Dynamics, Antithesis).Yet there is also a level of indeterminacy in reality, e.g. on the quantum level. This can only be reconciled with the above, if this corresponds to self-determinacy of the system of reality. There are physical constraints on the system, but within these constraints there is freedom to act. Langan calls this a self-determinacy a causal volitional loop, and equates this with "free will" (present at any level of reality: this makes Langan hylozoist or panpsychist), which will become evident from the following. (Synthesis of protoIdentity, protoemergent screen).
Self-creation, self-organisation self-sustention (autopoiesis) is a cybernetic stimulus-response-feedback loop inherent to Reality. Reality has sensors, senses what happens otherwise it is not possible to evaluate conditions, recognise these and respond thereto. This sensed integrated feedback is the essence of consciousness (Autopoiesis, Harmonic resonance, established emergence).
Reality self-configures by a selection from multiple wave possibilities in order to maximise its self-defined value. This is Teleology, which brings about order. (Harmonic selection, inter-group screen).
Living beings are Teleses, selection principles. Like waves they either constructively build or destructively interfere. As reality progresses towards order (e.g. evolution of life defying the supposed destructive tendency of entropy) teleologic construction is capable of overcoming interference. Without making an absolute moral judgement (morality depends on perspective and is hence relative), one could pragmatically define "Good" as teleological constructive and "Bad" as teleological destructive. (Discernability, Morality)
The highest Transcendence is that protean creative intelligence principle that generates and enforces Teleology. As highest entity whose will is teleology it has an active dimension of consciousness, which is volition (the true Ego) which comes to expression in manifestation and a passive dimension of consciousness (self-awareness). As the highest Transcendence (HT; if you wish you can call this God) is real and primary, HT cannot be contained as a part by reality but is coincident therewith. (Apotheosis)
As evolution shows that Teleology can win over anti-Teleology thereby meaning is established making existence meaningful. We are agents through which the universe realises its being and shape its destiny. (Meaning)
Via syndiffeonetic analysis it can be shown that all phenomena are reductively the same. A primary condition of existence of reality on all scales is Metalanguage, which is the relation between cognition and perceptual reality. This is a homogeneous perceptual medium. (Relation)
Time and causality are not confined to past-future direction as every state is in contact with every other state bidirectionally.
Perception is the interaction between self and supposed environment. Because past and future selves can be brought in conjunction to compare events from now and then, our momentary selves are sufficiently alike to be conjoined. In other words intersection of self with any moment is possible; this intersectional medium is changeless, time invariant and an unchanging observation post. This is the ultimate form of consciousness, which is the fabric of the net of relationships. This is the prima materia, which is Absolute. This is the higher Self, which is ultimately static. The energy which as metaphorical clay can take any form but still remains unchanged the same clay.
Time as periodicity of self-feedback is a form of cognition. This static description of time is invariant. We can conceive it by abstraction. By abstraction "concepts" become descriptively independent of the objects they describe.
Space and time can be abstracted by language. Space (both ontological and physical) is represented by the symbols, memes and strings and the rules for their spatial arrangement. Time is the grammar, the rules for the development of the relational network; of the cognition-perception language.
Both neural cognitive and physical systems can be described as languages. The relationship between self-awareness and temporal awareness stratifies self "temporarily". As time evolves higher order experiences arise, which are more abstract and more objective. Eventually subject and object merge. Tat Tvam Asi. Thou art That.
The (little) self both abstracts the laws of nature from experience and selects the laws of nature by analogy to its own laws. As above, so below (Trismegistos) and thus this also holds on the higher levels of manifestational being.
The temporal grammar of physics determines the neural laws of cognition on the one hand. On the other hand cognitive grammar projects itself in reality so as to determine the form of physical grammar. Cognitive and physical grammars influence each other symmetrically. In fact everything is ultimately information, a game of distortions on the digital checkerboard of the all-pervading Akasha (the so-called "quantum vacuum"). Digital physics (Verlinde et al.) more and more shows that we are living in a pancomputational substrate. As every self-sustaining energy (which distorts the homogeneity of the Akasha) senses and is therefore conscious to a certain extent, reality is not only pancomputational but also panpsychic.
As the universe expands, it has a creation event on a higher level of time. Cosmic time. As this event is real, cosmic time is an aspect of reality and must have created itself, whereby cognition plays a role in the creation of reality.
The cognitive self formulates models incorporating ever higher levels of change, culminating in the highest level, which is the creation of reality. The most universal model of temporal reality becomes identical to the reality being modelled. The self becomes the origin of time, being cognitive periodicity of self-convolution.
Whereas perception requires duality of object and subject, the subsistent infinite singularity of consciousness which sustains the apparent transient phenomena is monistic, otherwise there is no uniform medium for the relations that build existence; the ontological network, wherein things are not what they seem. I.e. the relations are real, not the things per se, as they are unduly isolated (by mind) from their holistic context. (Wittgenstein).
As there are problems which can be conceived and solved, which computers cannot solve (Turing's incomputability), computers may be able one day to mimic some functions of mind and intelligence, but computation does not lie at the heart of consciousness.
The utility principle of teleology requires that ultimately the greatest good for the greatest number is to be selected for. The Nash equilibrium.
The Golden Rule distributes over All players in the universal metagame. The purpose of this game is to get to know one's Self. Maya is for the liberation of the Soul; its liberation from the false identification with the particular and its realisation of being one with the Whole.
(inspired by the CTMU of Chris Langan and Reality Theory by Steven Kaufman).
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