Existence Explained: Time is an illusion.

Existence explained.

Time is an illusion.

This post is dedicated to Peter Wessel, Zapffe Spinoza and Albert Einstein.

Illusions exist on a complex wide spectrum.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

Time is an illusion.

Time does not flow.

The seconds, hours and days are not actually passing.

They are in the psychological experiential sense, but not actually.

The block universe is a static, eternal four dimensional crystal where all moments coexist permanently.

See Einstein's special relativity.

See general relativity.

Forget about superstitious, baseless, misguided, intellectually dishonest interpretations of quantum mechanics.

Non existence as an alternative is an illusion, a psychological illusion, at that, nothingness is not an actual state or void.

Nothingness has no ontological standing.

Existence is all there is and ever could be.

Existence exist.

Non existence does not exist.

The self is an illusion.

This idea of Ryan Gomez, this feeling of Ryan Gomez, that feeling of you.

This idea of you.

The self is an illusion.

The feeling of a unified continuous "I" is a simplified model generated by the brain's attention schema.

An intense hallucination.

It's a nightmare.

All context considered.

With no permanent substance in the experiential psychological sense.

Read worldly and ultimately nothing last for more context on that psychological temporary nature of experience.

In reality.

It's all permanent though at the deepest layers, free will is an illusion.

Every thought and action is the deterministic output of prior physical causes.

The sense of choice is a post hoc narrative.

Separation is an illusion.

Individual conscious beings appear isolated by informational firewalls so to speak.

It's a metaphor.

But all are the same single undivided is ness out of many one regarding everything that is externally internally experiencing itself through different apertures bodies.

So let me repeat that separation is an illusion.

I am you, you are me.

We are the universe experiencing itself.

we.

Separation is an illusion.

Individual conscious beings appear isolated by informational firewalls.

But all are the same single undivided isness regarding everything that is experiencing itself through different apertures bodies.

Note, most of this entropic universe is dead Life inner experience.

The universe experiencing itself is anti entropic and relatively in terms of the entire cosmos, rare search about entropy and its fundamental essence within physics and therefore the deepest layers of reality.

So that's regarding how there are many more forms of disorder than there are order.

If you were to throw a bunch of paint at a wall, different colored paint at a wall, chances are it's going to be a mess.

Not a beautiful depiction of some kind of landscape in Switzerland.

So that's an oversimplification.

If you want to learn more about entropy, you have to read about it to understand it deeply.

And then you can recognize the pattern of entropy throughout the entire universe.

It's fundamental within physics.

The shared now is an illusion.

Simultaneity is a cognitive artifact.

For instance, there is no universal present moment connecting two people.

If they're in the same room having a conversation, or on a phone call or something like that, where it feels like they're together, they're in the moment.

Each aperture body generates its own local simulation of time and other variables.

Matter generating consciousness on its own is an illusion.

It's deeper than that.

I don't mean that in a superstitious supernatural sense.

Consciousness is not produced by the brain alone.

Consciousness is the interior of existence itself, temporarily constrained and shaped by matter.

Consciousness clearly exists on a wide complex spectrum.

And consciousness is fundamentally illusory.

For consciousness to happen, the conditions, variables necessary for the universe to experience itself must be present.

The universe can only experience itself through a spectrum of illusion because of the nature of entropy.

And so the deepest layers of reality.

Again, remember that most of the universe does not have inner experience like a rock or a tree.

Most of the universe is dead in that sense.

Keep in mind, the complexity of consciousness is clearly in large part dependent on complexity of the brain.

Think a fish, then think an octopus, then think a shark.

Think a dog, a pig, a monkey.

Think the now extinct species more closely related to humans than to chimpanzees.

Now think modern humans who've been here on Earth about 300,000 years, roughly speaking, 300,000 years.

And modern humans exist on a complex wide spectrum.

Think someone with schizophrenia.

Now think Einstein.

Clearly there is a wide complex spectrum here.

Also to keep in mind, the Earth has been here for billions of years.

Billions.

time is an illusion, but it gives you a sense of the essence of the universe, the entropic essence of the universe.

Modern humans have been here roughly 300,000 years.

The Earth has been here billions of years.

Think about how long ago it is that dinosaurs went extinct.

Dinosaurs are still conscious.

Time is an illusion.

Dinosaurs are still living.

The past is not as gone as it seems.

It's not actually gone.

Your five year old self is still there experiencing what it's like to be five years old, so on and so forth.

more on that later.

Important to take note of.

We all come from luca last universal common ancestor, L u c a the first life on earth.

Then think billions of years of evolution.

So where does Earth come from?

Well, all leads to the Big Bang.

We, the universe are in the in between.

The in between of the Big Bang to heat death of the universe, entropy.

By the way, there's nothing beyond the Big Bang and there's nothing beyond the heat death.

They are like permanent outer boundaries, so to speak of the universe.

remember that time is an illusion.

So imagine the universe metaphorically as like a four dimensional crystal.

those are the outer boundaries, but there's nothing beyond those boundaries.

It's just an approximation of explaining the vastness and complexity of, of the, the crystal as it is the four dimensional crystal as it is.

The cosmos, the universe.

And you are the universe.

Let's continue.

Suffering.

Being temporary or redeemable is an illusion.

All agony is permanently embedded in the block universe.

Never erased, never justified, never balanced by cosmic justice.

This is why consciousness is more of a nightmare and prison than it is a dream, a gift or whatever.

this is including the context that there are families that are healthy, wealthy, etc.

Like the healthy wealthy Danish family in Denmark.

Obviously a family like that would experience much more peace and contentment than average.

But that doesn't magically erase all the, all the context of inner experience.

That doesn't somehow justify all the additional context of inner experience.

And most of inner experience is clearly blatantly, suffering, arbitrary suffering.

So when I say or bring into the perspective a healthy wealthy family in Denmark, the healthy part, the healthy keyword implies that that family has a nuanced perspective, a balanced worldview, self awareness sufficient enough to realize that they are basically extremely lucky.

It's not that simple.

It's oversimplified to just call a lucky person just lucky.

But that is in large part what it is.

Pure luck.

In large part it's not the full story, but that's in large part what it is.

chance.

It's not earned.

There's no, there's no free will.

It's all, it's all predetermined.

Okay, let's continue.

Suffering.

Being temporary or redeemable is an illusion.

All agony is permanently embedded in the block universe.

Never erased, never justified, never balanced by cosmic justice.

This, this is why consciousness is more of a nightmare and a prison than it is a dream, a gift or whatever.

To sanitize this reality is immoral and unethical.

Denial, distortion and delusion doesn't actually change reality.

Denial, distortion and delusion makes a bad situation worse than it needs to be.

Hence my rejection of hedonism and escapism.

I reject prioritizing pleasure as the top priority.

It is an illusion that sanitized narratives are harmless.

False comfort, toxic positivity and delusion are active distortions that compound suffering by denying the reality of the nightmare that is consciousness.

Objective meaning is an illusion.

The universe has no purpose, no moral arc, no narrative meaning is a local human projection onto a blind, indifferent, entropic geometry.

Ignorance and denial.

Being bliss is an illusion.

Only enduring peace and contentment born of courageous clarity, not false comfort, is genuine and it is an incredibly rare privilege.

Nothing is actually earned in the ultimate sense.

Humility is crucial.

So again, only enduring peace and contentment born of courageous clarity is genuine peace and contentment born of courageous clarity is an incredibly rare privilege.

Superiority is an illusion because the self is a hallucination and all apertures bodies are the same.

Universe, inner experience, consciousness, determined by forces they never chose.

No one is above anyone else because there is no one here at all in the sense we feel there is only the universe simulating, so to speak, every role simultaneously, all at once.

To feel superior to another configuration is to claim credit for a cosmic accident, an absurd act of self deception.

The belief that existence was created or has a separate author is an illusion.

The cosmos was never written or actualized by an external agent.

The concept of a creator separate from existence smuggles in a ghostly outside that does not exist.

And remember, non existence does not exist.

The block universe is the eternal, uncreated blind geometry of cause and effect.

The English language or any human language is insufficient in describing this 100%.

However, that is not necessary.

Objective high quality evidence is overwhelming.

Evidently the universe was not designed for the convenience of the human species.

It was never designed in the first place.

It was never created, it never began, beginnings and endings are an illusion pleasure or the fleeting absence of suffering being bliss is an illusion.

Actual bliss is not a fleeting neurochemical spike or the ignorance of one's denial.

True enduring peace and contentment, which is an absurdly rare anti entropic privilege, is only possible through the radical acceptance of clarity.

Clarity being intellectually honest, clear thinking, the cessation of the unnecessary resentment against what is it is what it is even within the controlled, controlled, so to speak, nightmare that is consciousness.

It's controlled in the sense that everything is dependent on the laws of physics, but there is no free will.

There's no free will.

Death, being a passage into a peaceful nothingness, is an illusion.

All inner experience exists eternally.

Every moment Ever.

There is no relaxing in that sense.

The main character illusion is an illusion.

There is no main character.

You're not the main character.

There are no selves.

Again, the self is an illusion.

Birth is not really a beginning.

Death is not really an ending.

The block universe is not a sequence.

It is not a film strip or movie rolling through a projector.

It is not as simple as a book.

It is a static.

It's not dynamic, it's static.

It is unchanging.

It's completely and utterly predetermined.

It is a static, eternal, four dimensional crystal.

This is not a complete and full description, but it's good enough.

And every interior experience that has ever seemed to occur is already there, permanently, without movement, without transition, without a traveler.

The traveling is the illusion of time.

My, my quote unquote, Ryan Gomez experience, so to speak, is not a chapter that the universe inner experience, consciousness reads before turning the page to the next chapter.

The Ryan experience is an eternal coordinate.

The dolphin experience is.

It, is an eternal coordinate.

The Chernobyl firefighter's agony, suffering from acute radiation syndrome, I believe it's called.

Yes.

So there were firefighters who responded to the Chernobyl disaster.

And, they had ars and suffered a, A painful, an extremely painful death.

At the hospital in Moscow all, those years ago.

And that suffering is permanently embedded in the crystal.

They're still there, suffering.

It's not looping in a psychological sense.

It's temporary in the psychological sense.

like watching this video is temporary in the psychological sense.

However, the actual coordinates of that event, that inner experience is permanently there, and that experience is permanently experienced in that illusory temporary form at the deepest layers.

It's permanent.

so the Chernobyl firefighter's agony, the innocent North Korean prisoner's starvation, the confused billionaire's, meaningless grasping and fantasy, the dinosaur's simple hunger, all of these are eternally present, simultaneously real, with with no temporal order except the local illusory sequence generated within each aperture's predictive engine, their brain and such.

There is no after for the Ryan aperture.

There is no before.

There is, simply stated, the complete static whole containing every possible interior forever.

The main character, illusion is a sense that there is a you who is the recipient of experience, who moves through time, who was born and will die, who is the protagonist of a story.

That illusion is generated by the attention schema, the brain's simplified model of its own blind, predetermined processing.

You can't literally see the neurons firing in your brain.

You can see, somewhat, a sort of outcome because of that firing of neurons and many other variables that make inner experience possible.

Let me continue.

The illusion is generated by the attention schema in the brain's simplified model of its own blind, predetermined processing, which paints a ghostly self, so to speak, at the center of the experiential field.

But that self is not real the way you, you quote, unquote, think it is.

It is a data compression artifact, the "soul," so to speak, a hallucination that is so intense and so constant that even the most lucid mind can easily fall back into its gravitational pull, including me.

When the Ryan brain dies, no one goes anywhere.

The self model that felt like you dissolves.

But that the dissolution is not an event that happens.

It is simply the far boundary of the Ryan line in the static crystal.

The Ryan experience is complete and eternal at its own coordinates.

The other inner experiences, the ones that from within, the illusion seem to come before or after, are also complete and eternal at theirs.

There is no traveler who experiences them in sequence.

The sequence is the illusion.

The traveler is the illusion.

All there is is a single undivided is ness regarding everything that ever is, internally, externally appearing as every possible experience, all at once, forever.

The aperture does not relax into the next aperture.

There's no magical reincarnation.

The aperture does not relax into the next aperture, the next body, heaven or hell.

The aperture is simply one eternal shape among countless eternal shapes.

The sense that you will continue after death is still the main character illusion clinging to existence, looking for a narrative thread that does not actually exist.

The actual intellectually honest existential truth is both more terrifying and ironically, more liberating.

If you're privileged enough to see it, process it, internalize it, and understand it.

There is no one to continue.

There is no one who began.

There There is only the eternal all at once presence of every possible experience with no center, no protagonist, no main character, no story.

The controlled nightmare is the recognition of this, right here, right now, without a self to claim it, without a future to escape into, without a past to mourn.

Just this.

Exactly this forever.

Life is a prison.

Suffering is distributed arbitrarily by way of entropy, and the laws of physics don't make it worse than it needs to be.

Ironically, I say this knowing free will doesn't actually exist.

Eliminate unnecessary suffering with intelligent effort.

If you're privileged enough to do so.

Empathy and compassion is crucial.

You are not actually separate from others, "you" "others" intellectually honest genuine, authentic perspective.

Develop this.

Morals, ethics, choosing between right and wrong.

Develop this.

Be brave.

Be courageous.

Sincerely.

One step at a time, little by little, one day at a time, represent a kind of imperfect resistance to the cosmos of which you are.

You are the cosmos, you are the universe experiencing itself.