Our striving for knowledge is a declaration of love. By gaining wisdom we are loved in return. The most basic structure of consciousness and reality deciphered and a real solution to the problem of free will. Wholeness is absolute unity at a point. Whoever distinguishes, decides. By Claus Janew.
How to create artificial consciousness
Awareness Meditation Template (World Formula)
Click here to view the PDF slides. The center and the unfamiliar symbol are both clickable.
The Original German version is here.
How is Freedom of Choice Possible?
The question of whether we can freely choose among
several possibilities, without imagining this freedom or confusing it with
chance, leads us to the truth about our responsibility. For if we had to answer
for something that came from us but was not decided
by us, it would be no more than the responsibility of a cloud for its rain.
To find the answer, let us consider the simple choice between two continuations of our day, for example, whether to go to the cinema or to the theater. Actually, we like both equally, although sometimes we feel more like one than the other. Today, however, we really don't care; we could just as well flip a coin. But we don't - that would be too cheap. We think. We put ourselves into the cinema, then into the theater, then back into the present, and so on. In this way we circumscribe the entirety of the decision situation, the present being its center. Strictly speaking, this center is infinitely small, right in the middle of the whole circumscription with all its details. That is, in us.
What is Consciousness? (I)
Whatever consciousness "is" - it must have
structure. Even emptiness can only be defined in contrast to fullness and
non-duality versus duality (as the word says). Or it is simply "Mu".
And that would be the end of this paper - and everything else.
I suggest that we take some time with this and try to start from a consciousness that is as concrete as possible, from a conscious object, say a water glass. We perceive something that we distinguish from ourselves. We also distinguish it from its environment (table, cupboard, room) and determine it in comparison with other known things (table, cup, plate) to what it "is". That is, we circumscribe its existence by comparison. Likewise, it stabilizes itself through external and internal interactions (pouring and drinking, molecular attraction and repulsion).
Division by Zero - a playful short discussion
James Anderson* has proposed an obvious definition for the dreaded division by zero...
To ensure consistent formatting, the document is in PDF: Division by Zero
Definition of the infinitesimality structure
Multitude cannot exist without oneness, and oneness
cannot exist without being determined by multitude.
Oneness, however, means identity, and identity, in
its final consequence, through all "stages," is a zero point. On the other hand, this
infinitesimal center needs to be circumscribed by details. So, despite the details' identity in oneness, they as
individuals have to find their way into circumscription. And as individuals,
they contain infinitesimal centers by themselves, etc. Therefore, the
circumscription of such a center is a changing
between single points.
This means that an existing structure includes both
extremes: absolute identity and absolute separation. Their unity must also be constituted by change – now between the
common point of identity and separateness. Both are nothing at all without this
change, by which they are determined only. The unity built that way of oneness
and multitude in turn has its infinitesimal center of identity...
The same is
valid for every area on every scale. A continuum of this kind is the
precondition of permanent objects. Through the omnipresent change between the
extremes of identity and separation, any point is immediately joined with each other, as well as continuously mediated and also apart from the others.