THE
SINGULARITY, A Short Story
Dan was very excited. This was the day! All the
conditions were now met! Today, the day that he and many others had anticipated
for many years was about to be realized. Everyone in the Bio-psycho-physics lab
gathered around a complex machine known as the A/E-2000. The A/E-2000 was the
culmination of artificial intelligence technology developed by scientists and
engineers from around the world over the past 100 years. A/E-2000 had all the
complexity of the human brain and nervous system, everything scientists had determined
necessary for a man-made machine to be conscious. But AE-2000 did not look like
the human-copy androids of the science fiction movies of the past. They had
realized that constructing a mechanical clone of ourselves unnecessarily
complicated the project. So they had focused on the essentials in order to
reach the goal sooner. The first conscious robot did not have to look like a
human being. It looked more like what might happen if one combined some organs from an animal with a circuit board and a mechanical octopus. One of Dan’s less technical
friends joked that they should have called it RK-2000, an acronym for ‘Road-kill-2000’.
Dan had been fascinated with the idea of artificial
intelligence from the day he saw the movie “A.I.”, a sci-fi movie about an
android named David who looked like an 11-year old boy. And when Dan read Ray
Kurzweil’s book “The
Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology” the
die was cast. He knew that he wanted to be one of the scientists who would realize
Kurzweil’s vision. He had worked hard to get the kind of education he needed,
and he had been successful. He was the lead scientist on the Singularity
Project, and today was the day! Of course, there were religious kooks who
questioned the wisdom of the Project: They accused Dan and his colleagues of
“playing God”. When asked about this in a TV interview, Dan answered like most
scientists of the day: “Being a scientist, I am, of course an atheist. There is
no reason to bring outmoded religious fantasies into a scientific project like
this.”
This was the moment they had anticipated. When they threw the switch,
bringing the final electromagnetic pulse into the already throbbing mass of
complex technology they affectionately called Adam/Eve 2000, it came to life.
With the cameras rolling to record this historic moment, Dan said:
A/E-2000’s amplifier hummed slightly and a vibrant voice replied:
“Describe for us how you feel.” Dan prompted.
After a slight pause, the voice said:
“Like I just woke from a long sleep! The last thing I
remember was being in the hospital.”
“That’s impossible”, Dan replied, “We didn’t program a
memory like that for you, A/E -“
There was another pause, as the camera-like eyes quickly
surveyed the room and then swiveled back around to focus on Dan.
“Who’s this Aye-ee”. it said. “My name’s not ‘Aye-ee’,
“I’M YOUR UNCLE FRED, YOU NINNY!”
THE FOLLOW-UP
TO ‘REALITY MATHEMATICS’ POSTED JULY 30, 2019
How does
rational thought, including what we call science, develop? It develops by
following and reflecting the logical structure of reality as more-or-less
accurately perceived by sentient beings. The ability of sentient beings to
perceive reality clearly rises and falls in a cyclic manner: The average mental
virtue manifest in sentient beings increases gradually for 12,000 years to a
peak, and then gradually decreases for 12,000 years, to a low point. Ascending and
descending cycles of average mental virtue repeat over and over, with an even
more gradual increase from one 24,000 year cycle to the next. See The Holy
Science, by Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri.
Science develops
during the ascending cycles, to the point that most sentient beings understand
nearly everything at the peak, called the Satya Yuga (सत्य
युग) in
Sanskrit, and then deteriorates during the descending cycles, to the relative
occlusion of knowledge for most, in the Kali Yuga (कलियुग).
What is the
history of the development of science during the present ascending time-cycle pointing
toward? In the current ascending cycle, the findings of Einstein, Planck, Kaluza,
Klein, Nordstrom, Pauli, and a few others point toward understanding reality as
a multi-dimensional field of existence, consisting of universal substance
measured in three forms: mass, energy and consciousness, developing within the
framework of nine dimensions, three of space, three of time, and three of
consciousness.
The three
dimensions of space are known to us as width, height and depth; the three
dimensions of time are 1) the individual event timeline, comprised of the past,
present and future, defined by conscious acts of the drawing of distinctions, 2)
expansive time, defined by two or more non-congruent individual timelines, and
3) volumetric time, defined by two or more of the expansive planes of time, described
as the two-dimensional time domains described above. The three dimensions of
consciousness are: 1) finite individualized consciousness, 2) group
consciousness, as in human, animal and plant consciousness, and 3) Primary
Consciousness, the reality behind all forms. The nine-dimensional finite framework,
within which objects exist and events happen, is encompassed by the trans-finite
field of conscious substrate, embedded in the infinity of Primary
Consciousness, the matrix from which all things arise. We don’t experience just
three dimensions, as often claimed, but segments of five dimensions: segments
of three dimensions of space, one dimension of time, and one dimension of
consciousness.
The more
aware we become of the substance and dimensions of space-time-consciousness,
the more we understand reality, which appears to consist of quanta of matter,
mind and consciousness, interacting in a nine-finite-dimensional field. At the
peak of understanding, we realize that they are all one. Modeling reality as a consistent
triad of distinct quantum forms of substance in nine finite dimensions,
embedded in a trans-finite field, enables us to explain a number of things that
have puzzled mainstream science for decades.
Mainstream
science is stymied by certain phenomena because it is based on the limiting assumptions
of materialism. Our new paradigm expands the axiomatic basis of the logical structure of reality to produce a
more comprehensive model that is more consistent with empirical data, and
explains much more. Examples of things explained by the Neppe-Close model, the Triadic
Dimensional Vortical paradigm (TDVP), include: the intrinsic ½ spin of fermions,
the exact mass of the photon and neutron in atomic structures, the exact value
of the quark mixing angle, called the Cabibbo angle, what gluons, bosons and
other ephemeral “particles” really are, what dark mass and dark energy are, why
and how so-called paranormal (psi) phenomena exist. Our nine-finite-dimensional
model removes the so-called “weirdness” of quantum mechanics, integrates relativistic
field theory and quantum field theory, and thus is a paradigm shift from
materialistic science to post-materialistic science that really works.
The physical universe, of which we know only very little
through the limited scope and imperfect lens of our five physical senses, is
what we take to be reality, as long as we indentify ourselves solely as physical
bodies. Since we are only capable of seeing a tiny fraction of the spectrum of
electromagnetic radiation, hear only a negligible portion of the total range of
vibrational sound, feel only the surface of the deeply fractal structure of molecules
and atoms, and smell and taste far fewer organic compounds that many of our
animal friends, what makes us think that the picture of reality constructed in
our minds are complete? After all, that picture is nothing more than the
subjective interpretation of streams of severely limited data, allowed to
continue on its inward path to your mind only after it is processed and passed
through multiple layers of physical and neurological filtering structures that
are part of our pyhsical bodies. This reducing of bits, waves and fields of radiated
and reflected energy to specific forms is not arbitrary, however, it is done
for the practical reason of survival. Without this reduction of the spectrum of
energies that flood the cosmos, to a manageable stream going into our brains, the
physical vehicles forming a link between consciousness and the cosmos would be
destroyed.
As we push the frontiers of scientific understanding
beyond the simplistic pictures provided by our physical senses, the farther we
go, the more we see that those pictures are imcomplete and misleading concerning
the true nature of reality. The fact that our best pictures of reality, used by
science to construct a Standard Model of reality, are incomplete and
misleading, is reflected in the history of science. The Standard Model, the
consensus of mainstream scientists, defended by many as the truth, is constantly
changing. Examples abound: The consensus was once that the earth was flat and
the center of the universe. The scientific model of reality is continually changing.
Just during my lifetime, the confidently estimated size of the universe has
changed by huge factors multiple times. The continental drift theory was
rejected as psuedo-science when I was an undergraduate, but is now fully
accepted as plate tectonics. And there are many more examples of the dynamic
nature of scientific truth.
I have seen yesterday’s speculations become today’s reality
many times since I was in my twenties in the late 1950s and early 60s. And this
is as it should be. It is seen, in retrospect as progress. Perhaps the most
instructive example is the search for the basic building block of the universe.
As scientists studied the structure of physical reality, it became clear that the
everyday objects of our experience were made up of smaller objects, and those
smaller objects of yet smaller objects. The bodies of living plants and animals
were found to be made of organic structures and cells, inanimate objects were found
to be made of several types of macro-forms, supported by patterns of crystaline
structures, and both cells and crystals were found to be made of molecules, and
the molecules were found to be made up different atoms, which in turn were
found to be made up of electrons, protons and neutrons.
But when scientists tried to find the most basic building
block of atoms, it seemed to keep slipping through their fingers. The discovery
by Max Planck that reality is quantized promised a bottom to this descent into
micro-reality. From the point of view of a physicist, reality consists of only
four things: matter, energy, space, and time. But physicist Max Planck said, in
"'Das Wesen der Materie'
('The Nature of Matter')". Speech in Florence, Italy,, 1944.:
“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed
science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research
about atoms this much: There is no matter as such.“
And Albert Einstein, on page 155, in Relativiy The Special
and general Theory, said:
“There is no such thing as empty space… Space-time
does not claim existence on ots own, but only as a structural quality of the field.“
So, three of the four things physicalists consider as
real, either do not exist, or they are not what our senses seem to tell us they
are! What about the fourth one: energy? Quoting Planck again:
“All [of what we call] matter originates and exists only by virtue
of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this
most minute solar system of the atom together.”
So is everything ultimately made of energy? Continuing on, Planck said:
“We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and
intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
So as long ago as 1944 (still well within my lifetime; I was born in
1936.) two leading physicists, Albert Einstein and Max Planck, now considered
to be the founders of the two pillars of modern science: relativity and quantum
physics, said that matter, energy, time, and space, have no existence of their
own, and Planck went a bit further, he said that consciousness is behind matter
and energy, the substance of physical reality.
So, to summarize, the four things we think of as the basic components of
physical reality: space, time, matter and energy, are not what we think they
are. This is just another way of saying they are illusions. And solid matter
faded away as an illusion, as we learned atoms are mostly space. The “particles”
we call electrons, protons and neutrons, are dependent upon energetic forces,
and consciousness is behind the forces.
Application of the quantum math I’ve described in several publications,
including Reality Begins with Consciousness, (Neppe and Close, 2015) and
Is Consciousness Primary? (The Academy for the Advancement of
Postmaterialist Sciences, 2019), reveals that consciousness (we called it gimmel)
is present in electrons and the quarks that make up the protons and neutrons in
every atom of what we call ordinary matter. Not only that, it is present in
greater proportions in the elements of the periodic table that make up living
organisms. Another important finding of analyses using quantum math is that
individualized consciousness (you or me, for example) is part of the primary
matrix of consciousness that is behind the forces that shape reality.
Conclusion: What we think of as physical
reality is an illusion.
Application of the calculus of
dimensional distinctios, the quantum calculus, shows that the basic building
blocks of reality are formed in the underlying reality of Primary Consciousness
by the conscious drawing of distinctions. As sentient beings, we are quantums
of conscioiusness evolving in a dynamic quantized world floating in the
infinite domain of Cosmic Consciousness. Thus we are all connected in
consciousness, and the evolution of reality is not random, it is meaningful
change driven by Spiritual forces.
AN OVERVIEW
1. Transcendental
Physics and the Triadic Dimensional
Distinction Vortex Paradigm (TDVP) posted Sep 8, 2012 – 853 page views
2. Notes on Fermat’s
Last Theorem posted April; 2, 2014 – 619 page views
3. Proof of the
existence of God posted Feb 16, 2014 – 473 page views
4. The Crazy Idea
Whose Time Has Come posted July 18, 2016 – 400 page views
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Most of you, who follow my posts here, know that I
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So what would I know about depression? First, almost no one experiences a
perfect life, filled with endless happiness and joy; and, second, I no longer
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years. Also, I have memories of previous lives during which I suffered
horribly and died miserable deaths. Whether those lives are real or imagined,
the memories real or somatic records in my DNA of the lives of ancestors, makes
no difference – I, as surely every human being alive has, have tasted the
bitter bile of depression. Despite the scientific evidence I have that her
consciousness still exists, I still cry myself to sleep some nights, because I
miss her so much!
So, why do we suffer from depression? Here’s what I
think: It’s the result of ego-attachment and thwarted-will related to physical
expectations. We are spiritual beings who have consented to become involved for
a time in the Sturm und Drang of physical existence on this planet. As
such, we know that we are immortal, and cannot be harmed in any real or
permanent way. But attachment to physical things and expectations related to specific
physical outcomes, makes us forget our true nature. When in the throes of this
forgetfulness, we begin to doubt the reality of our spiritual nature and fear
the pain of failure, death and destruction. For anyone who has tasted the immortality
of Spirit, and remembers it, even subconsciously, this is terribly depressing,
and ushers in the Dark Night of the Soul.
So what of people who have no memory of their spiritual
origin or knowledge of their spiritual nature, or belief in anything beyond the
sliver of reality called the physical world, and sink deep into seemingly endless
depression and despair? We must encourage them to reach out in faith to Spirit,
in whatever way makes sense to them (Jesus, Abraham, Buddha, Kabir, Universal
Light, etc.) and ask that their mental state be altered in a positive way. The
Dark Night of the Soul is a black hole sucking all material things into its
maw, but that great suction has no effect at all on the soul, because the soul
is Spirit, and thus, like gimmel, it is non-physical.
Suicide is not bad for the soul because it is the inglorious
end, in fact it is not the end at all. Those who try it find it is just a temporary escape route
that requires more work the next time around. It is bad because it delays overcoming
the Dark Night of the Soul, which is the purpose of life.
