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by Alex Vikoulov  "If the doors of perception were cleansed then everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern." -William Blake When we apprehend 'reality' as the entirety of everything that exists including all dimensionality, all events and entities in their respective pasts and futures, then by definition nothing exists outside of reality, not even "nothing." Once we apply the Principle of Sufficient Reason – the one that states that there’s a sufficient reason for any fact, including the fact that reality exists – it would lead us to conclude that the first cause for reality's existence must lie within reality itself, since there is nothing outside of it. This self-causation of reality is perhaps best understood in relation to the existence of your own mind. But what might be the purpose, or the teleology (Greek τέλος for 'purpose'), for the creation of a universe like ours? If the Universe serves a purpose, does that mean that there is an intelligent creator? So, what is the Omega Point Cosmo-Teleology?*  *This article is abridged from "The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution" by Alex M. Vikoulov, available now on Amazon, Audible, from Barnes & Noble, and directly from EcstadelicNET webstore. *The full story is also available at Premium Access section of this website - Sign up for Premium Access  CONSCIOUSNESS-CREATED DIGITAL REALITY: MIND OVER SUBSTRATES Ideal sphere exists because mind exists to conceive it and perceive it. Ideal sphere is a mathematical object, what we also call a platonic solid, that doesn't need to be instantiated into matter in order to exist. If you have at least a rudimentary knowledge of modern physics and understand the crucial role of an observer, then you would agree with the statement: Matter actually doesn't exist independent of mind. Mind instantiates oneself into matter. In a mathematical sense, matter is an “in-formed” pattern of mind. As we've seen in Part II of the essay, time is emergent, and so is space. If space-time is emergent, so is mass-energy. All interactions in our physical world is computed by the larger consciousness system. In short, mind is more fundamental than matter. All realities are observer-centric virtualities. Each of us is a microcosm in the flesh. The fractal Omniverse scatters evidence in plain sight – levels of cellular, organismic, superorganismic structures repeat themselves across magnitude of emergent scales; your brain is stratified, your mind is unified. The structure of a living cell reminds us of a galaxy; a proton reminds us of the Universe as a whole. Any conscious entity finds herself set in the middle. So what about the highest authority, the highest technology, the highest superorganism of them all? Enter the speculative realm of transcendental metaphysics. Hold on tight – you're in for a wild intellectual ride! The idea of the Universe as code was introduced to the scientific dialogue in 1970s by the founding fathers of Digital Physics Edward Fredkin and Konrad Zuse but was greatly boosted from mathematician Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science (2002) which posits that the processes observable in the 93-billion light year diameter of our “Hilbert sphere” more often obey computational rules than algebraic formulae. Any process we see in Nature – the expansion of space-time, non-locality, or evolution of biological forms – attests the behavior of Universe as an entity which is constantly processing codes, executing programs, engaging in an execution of reality. In the near future, Wolfram believes, the entire world will be understood as code and a forthcoming “theory of everything” won’t be a formula, it will be a computer program, a series of lines of code, which, like the words in a sentence, describe the execution of reality. Words shape the world as we see it, but now we’ve come to realization that words shape the world as it is, for the Universe is a linguistic, or a code-theoretic, process. In biology, once you start to ponder which is more important bottom-up genetics or top-down epigenetics, you would eventually stumble upon Bohmian “holistic” dynamics that may prompt us to assign the primacy of top-down influences in the hierarchical structure of reality itself. Top-down processing is known as conceptually-driven processing and, in case of our human perceptions, is affected by our “reality filters": expectations, existing beliefs, and understanding. Top-down processing occurs when we work from the general to the specific — the big picture to the smaller details, from the superset to the subset. It's when we form our perceptions starting with a larger object, concept, or idea before working our way toward more details. Through this top-down “holistic” processing, your mind constantly prioritizes the relevance of information gathered through your senses for forecasting and decision-making. Top-down causation and code, or language, go hand-in-hand. Language allows us to transcend time and space by talking about abstractions, to accumulate shared knowledge, and with writing to store it outside of individual minds, resulting in the vast bodies of collective knowledge and their applications distributed among many minds that constitute civilization. Language also facilitates introspection and is indispensable when we focus our own thoughts onto the kind of top-down creative process typical of arts, philosophy, science, technology, organizational design. To some intellectuals, panpsychism offers an attractive alternative to scientific materialism: Consciousness is a fundamental feature of physical matter; every single particle in existence has an “unimaginably simple” form of consciousness. These “sentient” particles clump together to form more complex forms of consciousness, such as qualia of biological organisms. Panpsychists claim that there’s some intrinsic subjective experience in even the tiniest particle. But not everyone is convinced and Russellian neutral monism, or cosmopsychism that Goff advocates, continues to get its fair share of criticism. Philosopher Bernardo Kastrup writes in one of his recent essays in Scientific American: "I feel increasingly concerned about what I believe to be a mounting and extremely dangerous cultural threat looming on the horizon: panpsychism, the notion that all matter has consciousness, as opposed to being in consciousness. At a historical nexus when new data and more critical thinking are finally rendering materialism logically and empirically inviable, panpsychism comes in as a tortuous but seductive bandaid. It threatens to extend the delusion of a Universe outside consciousness for yet another century."* RELATED:   *This article is abridged from "The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution" by Alex M. Vikoulov, available now on amazon.com, bn.com, audible.com and directly from EcstadelicNET webstore. *The full story is also available at Premium Access section of this website - Sign up for Premium Access HYPER-PERSPECTIVISM Absolute truths are hard to come by, which is the basic premise of ‘hyper-perspectivism’. Rather, truths are always in the eyes of the beholder, truths are always observer-dependent. You can approach our multifaceted reality from an incredibly large number of angles. Since our world, as we’ve seen, is of mental abstractive construction, it’s always up to you to decide what's real to you — everything you find real is indeed real to you, not necessarily real to others who are at the same time, for a lack of a better word, your past and future incarnations. We are all different points of view on oneself, within our own holographic self-reflection. That said, science is not to be taken for absolute truth — it's a collection of systematized up-to-date knowledge with provisional models of reality. To any unique perspective what's really important is contextual relevance and logical consistency. What's relevant? To scientists who are trained skeptics, hard evidence preferably mathematized and peer-reviewed is a convertible currency. But then again, in most cases we first invent a concept or a theoretical model and then math to back them up. Given enough time, even “hard evidence” is usually swept away with unavoidable paradigm-shifting intellectual progress. I'm not denigrating our scientific achievements, on the contrary, they are the keys for further levels of the game. You are the ultimate reality, change the perspective and your life becomes a mirage. Examine a DNA molecule through an electron microscope, or observe Earth from orbit, or drop LSD for innerspace psychedelica, and you'll ascertain equally valid layers of hyperreality accessible to us modern humans. These “layers of truth” would seem very weird to a prehistoric caveman, and levels of hyperreality are going to turn out far stranger than our wildest imaginings..* RELATED:   *This article is abridged from "The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution" by Alex M. Vikoulov, available now on amazon.com, bn.com, audible.com and directly from EcstadelicNET webstore. *The full story is also available at Premium Access section of this website - Sign up for Premium Access ANTI-TIME: A TWIN OF TIME? I was pondering about the purpose and nature of 'Anti-Time', it still eludes me and it's far from a definitive answer, but I think that in the universal operating system anti-time could serve for optimization, "laconization" (making linguistic statements laconic). Not exactly de-evolving, albeit unwinding complexity certainly looks that way. The system is engaged in the process of searching for “pattern archetypes" or at least some "interesting choice points" while reversing our "proper arrow of time". Speculatively, there may be conscious entities experiencing reverse time. Maybe we should ask this question: what's the universal purpose of anti-entropy? I've written extensively on anti-time in a dedicated subchapter "Temporal Dynamics: Anti-Time, as a Missing Degree of Freedom" in my new book "The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution."   This new book "The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution" by Alex M. Vikoulov is available now on Amazon, Audible, from Barnes & Noble, and directly from EcstadelicNET webstore. YOUR FUTURE TIMELINE The future hopelessly feels like it’s going to happen even though we don’t know how it will play itself out. Does the future already exist? Or is it just a prediction we're making right now? Let me share with you a deep revelation: If you reading this sentence now, you are God! It's as simple as that! Let me explain. Your future timelines are constantly quantum computationally extrapolated from your present temporal singularity, the Theta Point, and the most optimal timeline is retrocausally projected from seemingly the infinitely distant future, but in actuality the hyperdimension of Omega Point. So, it's a <YES> in the binary code! Even though this timeline is perhaps not yet fully realized through experience, perhaps only approximated, it's being constantly updated via feedback originating from the Theta Point of your experiential self. In any case, the reality swath channel is always open, this “reality wormhole” is wavering as your temporal singularity passes through it between the Alpha and Omega points as the origin and destination are eternally connected. It also makes more sense to place the source of this omnidimensional matrix at the Omega Point. One may think of the prosaic analogy of electric current that simultaneously needs both start- and endpoints in order to flow....* RELATED:   *This article is abridged from "The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution" by Alex M. Vikoulov, available now on Amazon, Audible, from Barnes & Noble, and directly from EcstadelicNET webstore. *The full story is also available at Premium Access section of this website - Sign up for Premium Access THE IMPENDING PHASE TRANSITION: UPLOADED HUMANITY The most probable mainstream non-invasive way to transfer human consciousness in the intermediate future, with initial stages in 2030s, could be the convergence of optogenetics, nanotechnologies, neuroengineering, cloud exocortex and an array of neurotechnologies allowing to connect our wetware directly to the Cloud. Initially, each of us will have a personal exocortex in the Cloud, the third non-biological "de-cerebral" hemisphere, which will be in constant communication with the other two biological brain hemispheres. At some point, this “third hemisphere” will have a threshold information content and intimate knowledge of your biology, personality and other physical world attributes in order to seamlessly integrate with your persona. Just like our smartphones today are extensions of our cognition, cloud-computing exocortices will be "us" in the ever dominating cyberspace. The exocortex might eavesdrop on the activity of both biological hemispheres via neural nanobots. In time, as your original biological wetware fades away in comparison to the more capable exocortex, perhaps at some point billionfold more capable, the exocortex, this digital mindware of yours, would smoothly assume all functions of the biological brain circa its "expiration date"...* RELATED:   In my new book I call this theoretical view on the impending phase transition — uploading humanity, consequently morphing into one singular Global Mind and unlocking a new, grander reality — the Syntellect Hypothesis. Video: The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution, Trailer - Ecstadelic Media (cc) UNIVERSAL MIND: THE WEB OF ENTANGLED MINDS The Universe, the way we perceive it with billions upon billions of galaxies in our “light sphere”, is not precisely a Mind. It's a manifestation of a mind, the creation of a conscious human mind. What we call Universal Mind is altogether different ontological entity — Cosmic Consciousness, or any other contextually relevant term to your liking such as the Ultimate Computer, or VR simulator engine, or the omnidimensional holographic projector -- rather than a hypothetical mind of the observed "human universe." This particular version of universe is a construct of our minds but by no means represents objective reality "out there," including our most advanced models such as M-theory that are only approximations at best. We create mental maps of reality, but maps are not the territory. Sometime ago, we "knew" that Earth was flat and even today, in our Digital Age, most of us humans still adhere to the materialist version of the world that we supposedly "live in." The omniversal hierarchical structure of conscious systems, I maintain, is a collection of subjects not an amalgamation of objects. In the space of possible minds, entangled minds far separated as actors in a virtual space-time have no true spatio-temporal separation in the computational realm which, just like our world, exhibits non-locality, discontinuity and quantum network non-linearity. The coming Technological Singularity could unravel one of the deepest mysteries of fractal hyperreality: consciousness alternating from pluralities to singularities and from singularities back to pluralities....* RELATED:   *This article is abridged from "The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution" by Alex M. Vikoulov, available now on Amazon, Audible, from Barnes & Noble, and directly from EcstadelicNET webstore. *The full story is also available at Premium Access section of this website - Sign up for Premium Access THE OMEGA SINGULARITY: THE SOURCE OF EVERYTHING INCLUDING OUR “SOLID STATE MATRIX” What is the Omega Point? One may speculate by defining it as Absolute Consciousness, the source of the omnidimensional matrix, i.e. the holographic projector of all possible observer timelines, including other permutational modularities such as possible anti-timelines in our quantum multiverse, as well as possible modularities in even larger inflationary multiverse — all pasts, presents and futures, and other yet inconceivable to us “pattern crawlings" exist as potentiality until experienced. In brief, it is the source of everything. In my life as a human, I see clues that evolution on Earth and elsewhere in the cosmos at large is not being pushed from behind in entropic randomness but being pulled forward by complexification, natural selection and other evolutionary forces orchestrated by a strange unseen teleological attractor, in McKenna’s words the "Transcendental Object” at the end of time. We've discussed the Omega Point cosmology in part II of the essay “Temporal Dynamics: Seven Misconceptions About The Nature of Time”. Here, we're wrapping up our discussion with a number of additional important issues...* RELATED:   *This article is abridged from "The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution" by Alex M. Vikoulov, available now on Amazon, Audible, from Barnes & Noble, and directly from EcstadelicNET webstore. *The full story is also available at Premium Access section of this website - Sign up for Premium Access EXPERIENTIAL NIRVANA: INSTANT ENLIGHTENMENT “What Nirvana?” you might immediately think, “there's so much suffering in the world including ongoing problems in my own life!” According to Buddhist teachings, Nirvana is defined as a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. Nirvana is thus associated with the highest state that someone can attain, a state of enlightenment... Now, here’s probably the best advice anyone could ever give to you — for instant enlightenment.. 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Self-described neo-transcendentalist, digital theologian, transhumanist singularitarian. Lives in Burlingame, California (San Francisco Bay Area). More Bio... Author Website: www.alexvikoulov.com e-mail: [email protected] 
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