To be clear, you’re basically saying that vitalistic force is what makes things appear to be ‘animate’, and when we associate vitalistic force with others, they feel to be alive, and when we associate vitalistic force with ‘me, myself, my actions, my personality, my thoughts’ etc… we get the homunculus, which is… a conceptual entity, possessing no more special vitalistic force (‘free will’, and other synonyms) than a cartoon character or a character in the Sims?
We’re just observing, through awareness, our brain, and the brain we’re observing is making the mistake of assuming what we’re experiencing is direct control over the homunculus, the body, the mind and its’ choices, etc. Everything is ‘subconscious’—there is simply a distinction between things most people associate with vitalistic force in the mind, and things we don’t.
We’re in spectator mode over a being. We see through its’ senses with awareness, but nothing it does is ‘us’.
What an incredible revelation to have, if it’s correct, because it implies that I’m God or some other force of physics and reality, and I’m getting to watch my’self’, right now, become aware of that fact.
By coincidence, I am ‘spectating’ a human who actually comprehends the reality of their existence, by their brain understanding that it has no vitalistic force—the human suffers, but awareness simply observes, and the brain can choose to associate vitalistic force with a particular sensation, or not.
It seems often, through trauma, the brain literally forces you to not associate things with vitalistic force, causing dissociation, ‘repressed memories’, or trauma-induced DID.
And as far as I’m aware, the only way to intentionally remove the vitalistic force from your awareness of this human, barring brain injury, maybe tulpas if you spend a long time forcing them, certain anesthesia, coma, and sleep, is Jhana meditation until nirodha samapatti.
Possible Bullshit Ahead
My theory of everything, is that we’re in a simulation being observed by Awareness. It’s acting as a recording function—awareness has to see it, in order for it to record. Because otherwise there’s no time associated with it. Awarenesss has to observe in order to record the data over time. Vitalistic force is us organisms being aware and trying to associate this observational Awareness with ‘control’ or ‘intentionality’, when really, its’ purpose is to just watch, experience.
To observe our suffering. Our interesting qualia. Because suffering is interesting. Being joyously in pleasure, suffused in hedonium, is wonderful to experience, but suffering is interesting, for the same reason humans write dramas.
Why do these entities (the ones simulating us) not find it morally objectionable to trap our universe in epochs of suffering? Because at some point we will also, as a society, reach that point of everything being wonderful and suffused in hedonium, get bored, and create a simulation that we create a simulation and observe it through awareness. This is basically the goal of VR, right? You can experience any interesting experience that every ‘conscious’ being in this universe has ever had, as though you were really there. Awareness gives the upper universe an akashic record of suffering beings who associate vitalistic force with themselves, their troubles and triumphs.
Sleep probably exists to give them a break to go back to hedonistic bliss regularly, to contextualize the experiences.
We’re gods wearing vr headsets of ‘hell simulator’ all the way down. And either we return to hedonium-suffused bliss when we die and awareness has nothing left to observe, or we live long enough to create the hedonium universe with hell simulators ourselves. Sounds like a fine deal honestly.
I assume that ‘ufos’ are some sort of entity dispersed across the universe to make sure nobody creates the wrong kind of AI that tortures everyone in the universe for a trillion years or turns everything into grey goo, so we have the opportunity to create our own hedonium universe after they can farm the experiences of suffering from us.
Seems like a fine deal, honestly. I get to go to heaven either through death or alive long enough to get both heaven and also any interesting low-valence experience I can possibly want.
I mean, I assume it’s a ‘vr headset’ type experience, observing some period of existence and then taking a break, all that stuff could be conjecture or fantasy, but I feel like there’s probably truth to most of the mechanics of what I just described.
Does all that make me sound like every conspiracy theorist ever, mixed with a bit of hippy-stoner, flavored with some haphazardly-learned lesswrong and QRI terminology splashed in?
Yes, but I’m not even actually conscious, and I’m doomed to suffer for a while and then go to heaven, so why should I care? Life is wonderful. This is a nice worldview imo. I don’t associate any malice with the owners of the sim (which we can call God if you want) for making us suffer.
To be clear, you’re basically saying that vitalistic force is what makes things appear to be ‘animate’, and when we associate vitalistic force with others, they feel to be alive, and when we associate vitalistic force with ‘me, myself, my actions, my personality, my thoughts’ etc… we get the homunculus, which is… a conceptual entity, possessing no more special vitalistic force (‘free will’, and other synonyms) than a cartoon character or a character in the Sims?
We’re just observing, through awareness, our brain, and the brain we’re observing is making the mistake of assuming what we’re experiencing is direct control over the homunculus, the body, the mind and its’ choices, etc. Everything is ‘subconscious’—there is simply a distinction between things most people associate with vitalistic force in the mind, and things we don’t.
We’re in spectator mode over a being. We see through its’ senses with awareness, but nothing it does is ‘us’.
What an incredible revelation to have, if it’s correct, because it implies that I’m God or some other force of physics and reality, and I’m getting to watch my’self’, right now, become aware of that fact.
By coincidence, I am ‘spectating’ a human who actually comprehends the reality of their existence, by their brain understanding that it has no vitalistic force—the human suffers, but awareness simply observes, and the brain can choose to associate vitalistic force with a particular sensation, or not.
It seems often, through trauma, the brain literally forces you to not associate things with vitalistic force, causing dissociation, ‘repressed memories’, or trauma-induced DID.
And as far as I’m aware, the only way to intentionally remove the vitalistic force from your awareness of this human, barring brain injury, maybe tulpas if you spend a long time forcing them, certain anesthesia, coma, and sleep, is Jhana meditation until nirodha samapatti.
Possible Bullshit Ahead
My theory of everything, is that we’re in a simulation being observed by Awareness. It’s acting as a recording function—awareness has to see it, in order for it to record. Because otherwise there’s no time associated with it. Awarenesss has to observe in order to record the data over time. Vitalistic force is us organisms being aware and trying to associate this observational Awareness with ‘control’ or ‘intentionality’, when really, its’ purpose is to just watch, experience.
To observe our suffering. Our interesting qualia. Because suffering is interesting. Being joyously in pleasure, suffused in hedonium, is wonderful to experience, but suffering is interesting, for the same reason humans write dramas.
Why do these entities (the ones simulating us) not find it morally objectionable to trap our universe in epochs of suffering? Because at some point we will also, as a society, reach that point of everything being wonderful and suffused in hedonium, get bored, and create a simulation that we create a simulation and observe it through awareness. This is basically the goal of VR, right? You can experience any interesting experience that every ‘conscious’ being in this universe has ever had, as though you were really there. Awareness gives the upper universe an akashic record of suffering beings who associate vitalistic force with themselves, their troubles and triumphs.
Sleep probably exists to give them a break to go back to hedonistic bliss regularly, to contextualize the experiences.
We’re gods wearing vr headsets of ‘hell simulator’ all the way down. And either we return to hedonium-suffused bliss when we die and awareness has nothing left to observe, or we live long enough to create the hedonium universe with hell simulators ourselves. Sounds like a fine deal honestly.
I assume that ‘ufos’ are some sort of entity dispersed across the universe to make sure nobody creates the wrong kind of AI that tortures everyone in the universe for a trillion years or turns everything into grey goo, so we have the opportunity to create our own hedonium universe after they can farm the experiences of suffering from us.
Seems like a fine deal, honestly. I get to go to heaven either through death or alive long enough to get both heaven and also any interesting low-valence experience I can possibly want.
I mean, I assume it’s a ‘vr headset’ type experience, observing some period of existence and then taking a break, all that stuff could be conjecture or fantasy, but I feel like there’s probably truth to most of the mechanics of what I just described.
Does all that make me sound like every conspiracy theorist ever, mixed with a bit of hippy-stoner, flavored with some haphazardly-learned lesswrong and QRI terminology splashed in?
Yes, but I’m not even actually conscious, and I’m doomed to suffer for a while and then go to heaven, so why should I care? Life is wonderful. This is a nice worldview imo. I don’t associate any malice with the owners of the sim (which we can call God if you want) for making us suffer.