Participatory theory

[The Dharma Bum]

http://osogd.org/

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[Professor]

[The Dharma Bum]

simply a matter of "adjusting" the consensus into having an experience of you in your ferrari

however that may physically come about is incidental to the process

[Professor]

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For every possible configuration of a quantum wavelength, there exists another universe that is the same in all respects but for that one single difference. So for all practical purposes, there are an infinite amount of universes, one for every collapse that has ever taken place in the history of everything. So there is a universe where you own a Ferrari, where you don't, where the Ferrari is blue, or red, or magneta, with a dent in the roof, without a dent, with a stain on the seat, without a stain, and each universe supports a worldpath that logically links these characteristics with events in the past. For the Ferrari to have a stain on the seat, for instance, requires that somebody spill something on it, which requires a trip to McDonalds (or whatever), which in turn has it's own world histories.

What consciousness does is collapse wavelengths, and what we call our lives is actually our consciousness integrating the creation of whole new universes simply by observing the physical state of the world we are in right now. Past and present isn't "time," it is literally a physical journey. As we go about helplessly collapsing wavelengths, we are creating a set of universes, which are brain is capable of spanning - those universes which are alike have similar worldpaths, they are "closer" to us, which is how we can make reasonable predictions about what is and isn't possible. It all results in "laws" that we typically call the "laws of nature." This is why even though there is a universe for literally every conceivable or even inconceivable reality, our consciousness is only capable of experiencing certain ones - the limitations or boundaries of that experience coincide perfectly with the laws of physics.

So, for instance, there is a universe out there where there is a block of ice sitting, unperturbed, in the middle of a star, and in which Professor exists. But in order for that to be true, for that block of ice to exist, we know that other things would have to exist - somebody to observe the block of ice, a world in which heat doesn't melt ice, a world in which we have the technology to do something like that - in other words, we are blocked from that sort of absurdity by the nature of our consciousness, which filters out possibilities which do not abide by what is possible. This filtering is innate to the human brain, and is also why you wouldn't be able to switch your consciousness to a world in which you had a Ferrari - what else would have to happen to make that true, and how different would it be from your current worldpath?

[The Dharma Bum]

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[Professor]

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