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This is a theory of mine which I have been musing over the last month or two, and I'd like some external input. This theory is far from complete, but up till now it all makes (enough) sense for me to try and complete it.
If I made any mistakes, please let me know.
Here goes:
First of all, I had the premise of mind>matter. I have some evidence that suggests this is true, and I am willing to search for the sources if asked, but here it is.
1.) Placebo effect. Does this need any explanation? People who recover from diseases which usually needs real medication, while they were only given water (with sugar or something, who cares).
2.) I have seen an interview with a neurologist in which he describes his experiences with patients who had near death experiences and OBE's (out of body experiences) and the likes. He measured that after 15 seconds of clinical death, no electrical impulses go through the brain anymore. Yet, a majority of the people who where revived some minutes after, sometimes even up to 9 minutes, had vivid memories of OBE's and all sorts of sensations. This cannot be if matter creates mind, so mind is at least leveled, if not above matter. I believe above.
interview
3.) I remember reading a study which included Australia and Great Britain (without Ireland, is that just England?). Some researchers had created an image which contained about 50 ( I can't actually remember the real number
) hidden human faces. This image was shown in aforementioned regions, and people could only distinguish up to a maximum of 7 faces. After that, a tv show aired only in England, and no other country had access to this tv show. In this tv show, they pointed out each of the human faces in the image. After that, they showed the image again in Australia, and the number of faces discovered increased drastically.
4.) Mass blooming of bamboo plants. There is a certain type of bamboo plant, which grows in different regions of the world, and all of it's plants always bloom simultaneously. Not very impressive, apart from the fact that there is no specific time interval between the bloomings, and no matter what weather the plants are in, warm, storm, rain, snow, the plants always bloom simultaneously. No one knows how.
5.) There is a certain specie of feral monkey that lives on some of the isles of Japan and some neighboring isles. These monkeys are endangered, so they are taken good care of, whilst still kept feral (paradox-ish). Some people leave food like fruits on the ground for them to eat. These fruits however got dirty with sand and all, so not very pleasant to eat. However, (I can't remember how) one monkey noticed/figured that if you hold your fruit in the water, it will clean. People only noticed the behavior in this monkey. He taught it to his tribe members, and other tribes on the same island picked up the trick as well. After some time, it looked like the amount of monkeys that knew this trick reached critical mass, and all of a sudden monkeys on other island started to use this trick, whilst never learning it from someone or seeing someone do it. This progression came quite simultaneously.
6.) Quantum mechanics. The fact that consciously measuring an experiment can alter the outcome. (Please tell me I formulated this correctly)
Now, number 3,4 and 5 suggest an interconnectedness of consciousnesses. I expanded upon this and the idea of collective consciousness which might already sound familiar. However, I chose to call this the Collective Unconsciousness, because I believe our unconsciousness is what binds us to this phenomena.
There is a CU in a realm not bound by space and time from which all our consciousnesses are build. It contains everything ever known by any sentience.
See it as a tree. The stem is the CU. The leaves are the consciousnesses. The stem has branches, and those branches have branches (etc), until eventually you get to the branch on your leaf. The branch on your leaf, are your own memories, your own knowledge stored away, ready to be recalled, but not conscious in your mind. However, some of the knowledge in your branch over time diffuses into the branch below if not used. These memories are then still in that branch, but not easy to reach for your consciousness. Some leaves are closer in terms of intermediate branches than others. This will mean that they have a more innate connection and understanding of eachother than leaves with more intermediate branches. The leaves can get an influx of information from the branches and the stem, but this cannot be ordered upon. This is what people now call their intuition, their gut feeling. Information passed from beyond your consciousness. When you go to sleep, you store vital information gathered that day in your own branch, and order the information in you branch. Maybe you even dispose of memories unused for too long, as to have more storage room. When a leaf dies, the branch it lived on extracts all the valuable minerals and memories from the leaf, and mixes those within the branch. Then, it disposes of the useless attributes of the branch, the body, rid of all its essence. Now, the branch can further grow in the direction the leaf has already explored some part of. And deploy new leaves to further extend its branches. When a new leaf grows, it takes a while before it can gather external stimuli. During this time, it relies fully on the influx of the CU. In a human lifetime, this is about 2.5 years. After that time, the leaf can absorb the outer world and store it into its own branch.
This tree contains all sentience. Since mind>matter, it would be foolish to say that this tree distinguishes between differences in genetic makeup. However, sentiences of different cognitive ability do rest on a different branch, and do have different sizes of leaves. Where, how, why, I don't know.
The purpose of this tree is to become all-knowing, and so become perfect, and cease to exist, because perfect things cannot be. It does this by letting consciousnesses gather knowledge.
Although the tree analogy serves purpose, I dislike it a little because it makes it too physical. I have many deja vu's, some of which I am certain I have really seen twice, and no one can make me think otherwise without substantial proof. I do believe this CU can reach into the future, if not only for a little. How, why, I don't know. This might explain deja vu's and the like, but it also makes the future fixed, and not completely influenced by us. Then again, this physical world we are stuck in is created by mind, so maybe it isn't.
I have a feeling of unease that I forgot something, so I might edit this OP.
Thoughts, questions, additions, anything on-topic is appreciated
If I made any mistakes, please let me know.
Here goes:
First of all, I had the premise of mind>matter. I have some evidence that suggests this is true, and I am willing to search for the sources if asked, but here it is.
1.) Placebo effect. Does this need any explanation? People who recover from diseases which usually needs real medication, while they were only given water (with sugar or something, who cares).
2.) I have seen an interview with a neurologist in which he describes his experiences with patients who had near death experiences and OBE's (out of body experiences) and the likes. He measured that after 15 seconds of clinical death, no electrical impulses go through the brain anymore. Yet, a majority of the people who where revived some minutes after, sometimes even up to 9 minutes, had vivid memories of OBE's and all sorts of sensations. This cannot be if matter creates mind, so mind is at least leveled, if not above matter. I believe above.
interview
3.) I remember reading a study which included Australia and Great Britain (without Ireland, is that just England?). Some researchers had created an image which contained about 50 ( I can't actually remember the real number
) hidden human faces. This image was shown in aforementioned regions, and people could only distinguish up to a maximum of 7 faces. After that, a tv show aired only in England, and no other country had access to this tv show. In this tv show, they pointed out each of the human faces in the image. After that, they showed the image again in Australia, and the number of faces discovered increased drastically.4.) Mass blooming of bamboo plants. There is a certain type of bamboo plant, which grows in different regions of the world, and all of it's plants always bloom simultaneously. Not very impressive, apart from the fact that there is no specific time interval between the bloomings, and no matter what weather the plants are in, warm, storm, rain, snow, the plants always bloom simultaneously. No one knows how.
5.) There is a certain specie of feral monkey that lives on some of the isles of Japan and some neighboring isles. These monkeys are endangered, so they are taken good care of, whilst still kept feral (paradox-ish). Some people leave food like fruits on the ground for them to eat. These fruits however got dirty with sand and all, so not very pleasant to eat. However, (I can't remember how) one monkey noticed/figured that if you hold your fruit in the water, it will clean. People only noticed the behavior in this monkey. He taught it to his tribe members, and other tribes on the same island picked up the trick as well. After some time, it looked like the amount of monkeys that knew this trick reached critical mass, and all of a sudden monkeys on other island started to use this trick, whilst never learning it from someone or seeing someone do it. This progression came quite simultaneously.
6.) Quantum mechanics. The fact that consciously measuring an experiment can alter the outcome. (Please tell me I formulated this correctly)
Now, number 3,4 and 5 suggest an interconnectedness of consciousnesses. I expanded upon this and the idea of collective consciousness which might already sound familiar. However, I chose to call this the Collective Unconsciousness, because I believe our unconsciousness is what binds us to this phenomena.
There is a CU in a realm not bound by space and time from which all our consciousnesses are build. It contains everything ever known by any sentience.
See it as a tree. The stem is the CU. The leaves are the consciousnesses. The stem has branches, and those branches have branches (etc), until eventually you get to the branch on your leaf. The branch on your leaf, are your own memories, your own knowledge stored away, ready to be recalled, but not conscious in your mind. However, some of the knowledge in your branch over time diffuses into the branch below if not used. These memories are then still in that branch, but not easy to reach for your consciousness. Some leaves are closer in terms of intermediate branches than others. This will mean that they have a more innate connection and understanding of eachother than leaves with more intermediate branches. The leaves can get an influx of information from the branches and the stem, but this cannot be ordered upon. This is what people now call their intuition, their gut feeling. Information passed from beyond your consciousness. When you go to sleep, you store vital information gathered that day in your own branch, and order the information in you branch. Maybe you even dispose of memories unused for too long, as to have more storage room. When a leaf dies, the branch it lived on extracts all the valuable minerals and memories from the leaf, and mixes those within the branch. Then, it disposes of the useless attributes of the branch, the body, rid of all its essence. Now, the branch can further grow in the direction the leaf has already explored some part of. And deploy new leaves to further extend its branches. When a new leaf grows, it takes a while before it can gather external stimuli. During this time, it relies fully on the influx of the CU. In a human lifetime, this is about 2.5 years. After that time, the leaf can absorb the outer world and store it into its own branch.
This tree contains all sentience. Since mind>matter, it would be foolish to say that this tree distinguishes between differences in genetic makeup. However, sentiences of different cognitive ability do rest on a different branch, and do have different sizes of leaves. Where, how, why, I don't know.
The purpose of this tree is to become all-knowing, and so become perfect, and cease to exist, because perfect things cannot be. It does this by letting consciousnesses gather knowledge.
Although the tree analogy serves purpose, I dislike it a little because it makes it too physical. I have many deja vu's, some of which I am certain I have really seen twice, and no one can make me think otherwise without substantial proof. I do believe this CU can reach into the future, if not only for a little. How, why, I don't know. This might explain deja vu's and the like, but it also makes the future fixed, and not completely influenced by us. Then again, this physical world we are stuck in is created by mind, so maybe it isn't.
I have a feeling of unease that I forgot something, so I might edit this OP.
Thoughts, questions, additions, anything on-topic is appreciated
nonetheless, it is a good theory that you have stumbled upon yourself, it shows initiative, so +1.
