(Note:
At this point Perspective was written, and it was added after everything
else was done (which is why it shows up here in the in-between notes) to
the end of the Terms section of Deconstructing the
Universe because I liked it. It really did not fit in there as it was
considerably longer than anything else added as Terms, but I had nowhere
else to put it, thought it capped it off nicely, and like I said, because
I really liked it. It was the last thing added and the only thing added
after the Key Ideas section was underway. This is being put in its entirety
here instead of just linking to it because
it goes on considerably longer than how it was used in Deconstructing the
Universe. It also gets a little off the point, thus it was shorted down
to where it is noted below, but in this continues on past where it ended
in Deconstructing the Universe, getting into quite different territory,
and also gets a bit of a different focus in the process which was why it
was cut.)
Perspective – Humans are different than most else in their
everyday environments by two factors; language and imagination. Imagination
is able to keep ones past alive and redefine whatever one is now in relation
to what one believes or "remembers" what one was, or how one was, or how
one saw things before. We cannot be certain that how we remember the past
is exactly how it occurred but we believe mostly that our general sensing
of our own pasts to be honest and that what and how we think we were, and
most of what we believe we experienced, we actually did experience or did
occur. By imagination of a past to define or redefine what one is now with
what or how one was or saw things before, whether based on fairly accurate
re-creatable or retained records of them we call memories, or less accurate
more imaginatively based records of what we believe we were or how things
happened, we are able to create two distinct perspectives; the state of
how things are now, how they operate, what general rules apply to the order
of things, what or how we believe things to be or should be; and how we
saw things at a time when we existed as and saw things differently than
how we currently perceive such things. Perspective itself exists as a reflection
of what it is against what it is not, or against what it believes itself
no longer to be. Language provides a tool to communicate perspectives to
others, and to ourselves over longer periods of time when our own memories
begin to fade or become less accurate.
Our physical
existences, our bodies, keep records of their own apart from our memories
or ideas of what we were or what we believe occurred. Our bodies reprogram
themselves to defend against illnesses, diseases, or germs which we have
encountered in the past, and provides us greater resistance to them should
we encounter them again. Our skin and bones carry scars or reminders
of when they were broken and were not able to heal or reproduce themselves
perfectly. Some people intentionally scar themselves with tattoos to better
remember persons, places, times, or events in their lives by writing it
or marking it upon their bodies. In a sense, time will write its own record
upon our physical selves, first by growth then by physical degradation,
the lacking of being able to reproduce and heal itself correctly over time
leading to what we call advanced aging ending eventually in death, when
one is not killed earlier due to a specific accident or illness. Reproduction
is a means to cheat death, to repackage and rebundle what one is in a new
form without a physical past, something completely new yet also a continuation
of something very old written in a language all its own we are only at
the earliest and most primitive stages of beginning to decipher. This form
of passing on information and identity to other similar new beings, yet
which will become something that is a continuation of the same "life" of
a species or type of being on a grander scale, is older than our written
and spoken languages and cultures we now also pass on, but is more universal
to other species and, barring our future physical interference with its
structures, is a more accurate reconstitution or recording of the past
repackaged for the future.
Whether
biological history, biological based "memories" it uses to reconstruct
something altogether new from a previously written template of another
or other parents, which will look and function as a continuation of that
same species standing apart from all other lifeforms in ones environment
even though it is also in a sense something altogether new and different
than anything which ever existed before, or whether it is consciousness
based memories, memories of events and previous notions of ones own lifeform's
physical past, both of these contribute to ones perspective by providing
a backdrop or history of existence to measure oneself against as it is
evolving into something altogether new, but which also must stand as a
continuation of something else, something to use to bring up to enable
such intended states of existence or occurrences to become actualized.
Biological history or biological memories started that ball rolling and
it is still rolling. Along the way we have started other balls rolling
as well, cultural identities, political, occupational, experiential, all
templates to guide or impose upon each new successive lifeforms a sense
of history in where and how to fit in, and where to place themselves in
relation to all which has come before. As I have said, perspective must
rely on a history, a what-it-was to define itself in relation to what it
is, and if possible what it hopes to become. Biological life provides that,
and now the life of other institutions and representations of what the
past was and can be again, also guide our perspectives on what we think
we were, and frame our ambitions on what we think we can become.
To get
a handle on how perspective forms, let's go back slightly to an isolated
farming community which could exist anywhere a few hundred, a thousand
or more years ago, or today. Imagine they have no ability to read or write,
know nothing of the outside world, nor of any people beyond those few around
them. Lets also imagine or assume humans do not have any other means to
sense or know of others without coming into direct contact with them physically.
To these isolated people, their perspectives would largely be comprised
of their parents (and others nearby) perspectives. They would see
the world, know life, and share the beliefs of those few around them they
do have direct contact with. Except for each new generation adding slightly
new perspectives, a process of change often slowly defined over many generations,
their beliefs would be based otherwise wholly on the outlooks of those
few others surrounding them and their oral stories of who and what came
before. Yet even without a written language or contact with other communities
or societies, it is through language that perspective is formed, a history
given, and evolution or change given its framework to grow within. Without
language, the biological history is still being accumulated and passed
on, behavior mimicked and imitated, but the ability to imagine and recreate
mentally generations before those few whom one directly experiences is
severely limited. The present becomes more real and the past becomes lessened
or less significant. Without a language, ones perspective is limited only
to what one remembers how one was before. Other generations one never met
become irrelevant or non-existent to that consciousness's perspective.
With
oral stories via language, perspective is widened beyond the present. A
mental history comes alive. A life of a people is told, accumulated, and
passed on. Each individual is now placed within that context and measured
against the ghosts of all who came before who are remembered. A history
real or imagined forms, and usually not solely real or imagined but with
some degree of each. One not only has the genetic predispositions to imitate
those which have come before, the genetic modifications to better be able
to survive physically, they are given exposure to notions of previous others
existences in a "before" time, stories about those others, and from those
stories, their perspectives. With ones own ability of imagination to recreate
and re-experience or remember ones own past, however accurately or inaccurately,
stories of others gives one the ability to expand that past. When one is
told of a long ago king, one can imagine or deduce what it might have been
like to be that king, how others would act around you and how you might
treat others.
Thus
ones possible perspective no longer becomes limited by what one is or those
whom one knows. One is given past identities of others to speculate over,
learn from, and adopt as their own. Stories of great deeds done in the
past, giants or dragons slain, gods fooled or burglarized, become aspirations
of new generations to equal or surpass, and one day have their own great
deeds be told alongside those presently told. And often the new generations
are not free to adopt these expectations or aspirations, it can be thrust
upon them. Being born to a great leader, one can be expected to become
a great leader. Being born to a worker or slave, one can be expected only
to be a worker or slave. If one bore a great physical similarity to one
who lived shortly before, they can be told or convinced they are a recreation
of that person, a new incarnation of them, and the stories and perspective
of that other person's history can become of greater relevance to them
because of that supposed bond. Often just sharing a name with another of
a previous time gave one a form of kinship or bond with others also called
by that name. Once others of times past became known through their deeds,
from those deeds one could speculate on the kind of person they were, how
they might view this issue or that moral dilemma, their presumed perspectives
could be kept alive and passed on and used to educate others. Without
a written language though, that "personality" or perspective was far more
fluid and more easily adapted to changing times, changing mores, and more
easily completely revised and amended by powerful rulers or chiefs since
stories are in essence only what those currently living believe them to
be, and communicated perspectives long after those beings ceased to exist
have only the limited and changeable natures of folk tales, myths, and
fables.
In the
isolated farming community where I began, chances are unlikely it would
have a powerful enough leader to completely revise oral stories to suit
his own wishes or justify his own actions or beliefs. In smaller communities
power is more evenly shared, more opinions have equal weight, as each individual
is more needed or crucial to the success of the whole. In such societies,
oral history is more commonly agreed upon and democratic. Often individuals
took on the roles of historians or oral history keepers but often it was
due to a level of trust in the integrity of that individual to stay true
to the spirit of the past, though it is possible a lot were just those
who could tell stories better and more imaginatively than others.
Once
we give our isolated farming community the written word, power shifts.
The past becomes a physical thing, not just a shared imagination. It can
be stored, cherished as an artifact or heirloom, and it can be burned,
destroyed, or without proper transfer from one generation to the next,
reduced to meaningless graffiti and scribbling. Those who can read the
markings to the satisfaction of those who cannot become elevated in stature,
position, and wealth. They control the interpretation of the past because
now it is something they can point to beside themselves and say "here is
the past, this is the truth of what those who came before did, thought,
and said about these issues, beliefs, or of their own lives, laws, and
customs". Such readers or interpreters of the past now had a power to challenge
current leaders interpretations. They became co-leaders, religious leaders,
academics, or scholars. Their power came from their ability to interpret
the past as being relevant to those living in the present. Keepers of the
word, guardians of the faith, those who can bring alive the words of the
dead and let them speak and live in the hearts and minds of new generations
throughout time, a good but dangerous job if one was confronted with kings
or rulers who had their own opinions about what the past should say or
wished it to confer credibility upon their current power, ideas, or give
them even greater influence over others.
Thus
the ability to read, write, and interpret writings spread beyond whoever
or whatever groups came up with it. Like language is commonly defined by
mutual agreement upon the meanings of words, so writing too became, in
those limited circles of those who were literate, commonly defined by those
of differing occupations or roles beyond just historians, and less likely
it became for one small group or segment of a society to completely reinterpret
or "divine" what these mysterious symbols meant to a largely ignorant bulk
of the population. The political leaderships or rulers wanted their own
"readers" of the words to ensure that they did not mean one thing one day
and something else the next. The past had begun to exert a power over them
and their desire to have it interpreted as they might wish, but they began
to make sure such keepers of the written words or records were not revising
and reinterpreting them themselves for their own purposes and powers. Thus
the ruling powers and keepers or interpreters of the past, when not one
and the same, provided some degree of checks and balances on each others
aspirations to redefine the past for their own wishes and aims, and the
past became, if not more real, at least kept more honestly.
The more
groups or segments of a society learned to read, the less mysterious reading
became and became an extension of their spoken language with one exception,
it lived outside of a human mind. This made it less likely to change from
one telling to the next. It remained static and unchanging from one day
to the next. If more people agreed upon and understood a written language
within a given society it became more likely to survive from one generation
to the next, and though it might evolve slowly as ones spoken language
evolved, if it required broader agreement across a society, it became less
likely to evolve apart from the most common form or representation of what
it meant to most others. Therefore not only did it carry its meaning from
one day to the next, but you now had a physical object which could carry
thoughts, ideas, and perspectives from one person to another without one
of the parties needing to actually be present, or have need to rely on
the honestly or accuracy of a messenger. Though often it was and still
is misinterpreted (one cannot ask a book or a letter to better explain
some aspect you are not clear about), by and large it came to mean the
same thing to each person who possessed it, and communication directly
with the past, and with those elsewhere in the present, became possible.
Just
as verbal language is an integral component of perspective being able to
communicate ideas of others existences prior to ones own to use as templates
to define what you are or giving it a context of where to place your identity
in regards to others based upon how others in the past defined or lived
themselves, written language was able to cut out the middleman. Without
needing a storyteller or interpreter of the past, people began to "hear"
the words of people who lived hundreds or thousands of years ago, depending
on accurate and faithful transcriptions and sometimes translations, to
experience them as if those persons were alive and speaking to them directly.
Yet again the past became more alive with more to say about where one is
standing in relation to where others stood before.
All these
added possible perspectives, all these new voices, now these lives of people
no longer living existing on to give one added perspective on what it means
to be themselves and still, though what is written here is thought to apply
to larger cultures, one needs not to even travel beyond the original small
farming community I started with. Though the kings or leaders would have
been more human-sized and less dramatic, it is possible for a small group
of humans to develop a language and a written language to record their
own histories. Even larger groups are still made up of mere, and just as
human, individual members. Larger groups are more likely to come up with
such ideas because they have a broader base of communication but nothing
here mentioned is beyond a given community of humans to achieve on their
own.
So with
the widened possible perspectives of generations' views and opinions of
long ago multiplying so long as they have room to store all of these added
perspectives of those no longer living, the possible perspective of any
individual coming later grows and grows. Granted using one small farming
community compared to what most humans know of the world today, that perspective
would still seem limited in comparison to our own, but it is there for
a contrast. Even within what would be for most today a severely limited
and insular culture, one remote farming community cut off from the rest
of the world, having no experience or knowledge of other cultures, their
possible perspective on how to view and interpret their lives and existences
would grow exponentially just with the mere addition of written language
(there are limits to what even a great oral record keeper could remember)
and a large enough library to record the lives, beliefs, opinions, and
points of view of all those who came before, the addition of that to the
natural abilities of imagination and identification and juxtaposition of
seeing oneself in similarity or in contrast to another who came before.
Though within that narrow definition of the experiences or potential history
and perspectives on what it means to be a member of that small farming
community, if records of their lives and experiences were kept for hundreds
of generations, the potential growth of individuals minds and perspectives
even within what we would consider a narrow range of possible experiences,
that potential for growth and perspective would be vast indeed.
But our
world and our perspectives are based on a much larger scale. Our histories
are not just of one village or area or community of people in isolation
from all others. Even in some of the most remote areas of the world people
have heard of, and have notions or misconceptions about what it is like
or would be like to live in some of the larger cities of our world. We
know of kings and dictators of long ago who ruled empires many or all of
our ancestors never lived under. We know of cultures beyond our own, and
the supposed or imagined perspectives of individuals within those cultures
in how they might perceive their lives or our lives. We know of various
stages of history different groups of humans went through in different
parts of the world going back thousands of years. We have ideas on how
these civilizations might have been structured and what life might have
been like for different classes, groups, or occupations of its members.
All of these imagined or deduced perspectives on what it means to be human
or how to view our own lives in accordance, in relevance, or in contrast
to how these countless others also living around our world now, or around
our world in days gone by, how they saw themselves, what they believed
they were, how they believe they or the Universe came to be or the purpose
why either was created or what purpose it currently serves or currently
exists as, all of these perspectives written down somewhere nearby to read
and to know or imagine, and to add to or use to define our own ideas about
what we are, why we are, where we came from, or what we might choose to
do with our own lives. By knowing or thinking we know about who they are
or were and what they might have done gives us some perspective or greater
perspective upon what it means to be ourselves.
And this
has only mentioned written and oral history thus far. Though many laude
the written words ability to spark ones imagination, we have recently begun
recording history through other (until very recently) less subjective forms
of archiving with possibly just as profound and far reaching implications
as to what the written word has added to our development of possible perspectives.
Photographs, films, and other means are now as important as writings for
our archiving and remembering what it means to be ourselves, and though
these can be manipulated for having peoples memories of their past or their
culture's past skewed or misinterpreted, when kept complete and unedited
by not dropping what may be considered irrelevant, provide a much greater
insight or glimpse into our species' past than words on paper or computer
screens ever could. We need not look at an artists representation of great
leaders, we can stare them in the face ourselves. Though our information
about others lives will always be skewed by what they or the governments
or the media wish us to know or believe about them, we can nonetheless
get greater glimpses into the lives of others we never met, never will
meet, and may not even exist anymore, and see, imagine or know, or have
some idea of what it might have been like to be or have been them. And
every one of these perspectives of existence is a possible source of better
understanding our own, or what it means or what it is like to be ourselves,
and how that is similar or different than what it means or is like to be
anyone else or any particular other person.
Even
this speculation leaves off at the present and most accepted notions of
how we record history, how we communicate ideas to others, and how we define
or redefine what it means to be ourselves in reference or relevance to
those others we are given to perceive or know of as well. In the future
one might be able to make and play three-dimensional records of events,
pause them, and view them from any angle. To view a speech by a great future
world leader before the United Nations might enable you literally to stand
beside him or her as they gave that speech, to see the room exactly as
they saw it as it was happening. People may one day become telepathic and
pass on ideas or notions, or even their entire perspectives directly to
others without need for words or electronics. And even the wall of time
might one day fall. We may be able to know what others knew or thought
as they did those events which shaped our world's pasts. Which leaders
were lying to their peoples, and which were even lying to themselves. Without
computers, to be in that room when that world leader gave that speech and
not just to see it or hear it, but to experience what it felt like to be
that person giving the speech at that moment and/or how it might have felt
to have been anyone in the audience. How then would this ability to see,
know, and experience others perspectives augment or enhance their own ideas
of what it means to be themselves or for them to better understand their
own potentials? If they were not human or descended from what we call humanity
it might seem just another perspective on what it means to exist. But if
they came from us, from out of our own timeline, our present would give
them added perspective on their own just as others' pasts in our timeline
define and shape our own and our expectations and dreams for what our futures
might hold.
Our lives
our not just our own. Our present to those futures, if any, are not just
our own. Our perspectives, how we view ourselves, our lives, others lives,
how we view ourselves in relation to all else in our perceptual worlds,
they are not just our own, nor can we keep them only to ourselves for eternity.
They are a record, whether mapped by words, by DNA, by consciousness engrams,
by videotape, or by holographic recordings. By being and having been experienced,
they have a concrete reality just as tangible as the first words written
on paper or carved in stone. They form the possible perspectives of all
who have yet to be, who might use them to define and know, or think about,
sort out and discover, who they are by giving them a past to seem to have
grown out of, a history even if not actually their own, for they will always
be new and the time will never in actuality be any other moment than now.
Rest deals with time, not perspective. Drop it! (ended
there, but not here ;-)
It will
always be now to them as they will seem only to have been only themselves.
That is what it means to be. Even were they to be able to experience even
our entire perspectives at any given point in our lives, not just our ideas,
as long as it is a part of their past, it is not exactly what we ourselves
experience. To be each individual in essence is to experience multiple
possible futures, or to have existence within multiple possible futures
and to not know things as much as it means to know or believe any given
number of things. Even those, could any species evolve enough to re-experience
anyone or anything from their past in what is the present to them from
any given timelines point of view, they cannot fully experience what it
is like to really be that individual because that individual has existence
across multiple timelines which are not part of their past. Also to possess
more than the knowledge of a given individual, to know them but also still
have their own experiences, would be to have a skewed interpretation. Though
perspective is communicable and past events can be brought alive again,
to exist is to have multiple possible pasts and multiple possible futures.
It is like a ride which is different every time. When you are part of what
creates a future's past, their backdrop or back story, that ride could
only have happened one way. When you are part of another's distant future,
you have no existence or assurance you will exist at all. But while you
are you, you are creating a solid past which really could have and does
occur in any number of ways, and seeming to set a real, a definite future,
which will in effect actually occur for a limited number of potential future
persons in a limited number of future realities which will only occur from
this one given playing out of one possible past. (In
other words each present is parent of many possible futures, each of which
can and does occur, so any one looking into its past, that is only one
branch of that past's future which is not the only one, and cannot see
or know the others futures it co-exists with the way the one in the past
sense them all equally).
What actually happened, what could have happened, and (what) only might
depends on where you are standing and who you are at any given point. To
those yet to be you are completely predictable, and every action you might
take, preordained. Yet to you or from your point of view, none of their
worlds actually exist or even necessarily will. One version or set must
(seem to) but which will over any other has yet to be determined. The same
is true for any persons before you were born. Their actions and lives seem
to only have occurred one way, (but) in actuality you only exist in a fraction
of their possible futures, and not necessarily (and sometimes not) will
come to be.
Perspective
is to understand one history or timeline as definite. To exist in time
as we understand it, you need a definite past. Which past is the real past
is determined by who you are now and what you need it to be. If every successive
block in the future requires every other one from and there is a definite
design or intended shape of the wall, everyone is part of only one timelines
definite past, and all events are already the past for some from that one
definite (and only) timeline, and therefore could only occur one way. Yet
if everyone is also the architect, being any brink in any possible building's
past, we decide which past to jump in on anywhere or to which future design
we wish to contribute our continuation, or further the shape of which future
wall.
Your
existence solidifies to you the past that you need to have exist for you
to have been. That future state for others of what (in what) is to you
the past, does not always and will not always happen that way, at least
not for any still or concurrently existing within that past. To them your
existence is only a possibility and nothing more. Now shoot the air out
of the concept of time in that multiple versions of the future must occur,
the futures that (to others in your past) require your existence and the
ones where you did not exist, both mutually exclusive sets of future realities
needing to occur equally. Every new existence in effect creates its own
definite past to give it perspective upon its existence. To us in the now,
we see ourselves creating the future path and determining which realities
will be real to which future potential others. Yet if all of those future
potential others are real at some point, though our lives can and do happen
any number of ways from (the point of view) of each "only potential" person
in the future, the ones that spring out of our timelines, each possesses
a different, something completely different, yet completely preordained
predictable past version of ourselves. Which you or which them is determined
by which past, always solid, always seemingly preordained, yet never actually
occurring more than not occurring (like possible futures), provisional.
(Everything in existence is creating or defining its own past by nature
of its existence. The past happened neither one way nor any other, but
to be is to require it to have form and shape.)
Inverse Probability Wave
====================
-Regular probability waves we are
collapsing
- Other types we are riding or carrying
forward
-2 different states of defining existence
(by) simultaneously occurring
(There are pictures connected
to the above which are difficult to explain. One is a ring shaped double
circle with an inner edge and outer edge and time denoted in the center
as moving in all directions outward. An arrow is pointing to the
space in-between the two rings states, "All other actual potential
existences at one point in time at any given point of particlization" (meaning
the life span of a given particle or existence presumably) Beyond that
another arrow points somewhere near outside the circle stating (I don't
have a clue about this one that follows) "From any given point
of particlization(any particle can be collapsed at any point of distance
from center(at potentially any other time)"
A subsection of the ring
expanded with arrows. One to smaller inner edge of subsection stating "Starting
point potential of any given particle you", another
and opposite larger outer section stating, "End point of any
given particle you", and an arrow to middle area
(of ring blown up) stating "Maximum time range of any given
potential actual existence or experience of you".
Another subsection
shows two of the previous subsection mentioned overlaying each other. One
is the same as the paragraph above, the other starting in the middle and
going beyond it past where it overlaps. One arrow points to center where
second section begins as "Particles collide creating new particles",
and
another pointing to second larger sections area as "New particles
maximum range" (along the circular subsection
denotes possible movements in space, away from center of circle possible
length of maximum time).
(Note: I think I can infer from
the use of the term "particles" as well as life, that it is intending to
suggest not only can lifeforms combine to create new ones that times will
overlap and extend in a second frame of reference, but that physical reality
is constantly being churned out by combination of potential particles colliding
and creating "actual" particles in an indefinite expansion outward from
the center of the circle which of course would double back like a donut
and keep expanding and creating new particles forever, each of which would
have its own separate beginning and ending points of reference indistinguishable
as being any more or different than any others. At least that is what it
seems to me as being now as saying, more than a year removed from writing
it.)
Life is a game you play by wanting
something. Once you want something it becomes a matter of succeeding or
of failure to succeed in possessing or achieving the fulfillment of that
desire. Your capacities are near infinite, immeasurable, and irrelevant
for the Universe's capacities to stall or thwart your possible success
are also near infinite and immeasurable. Calling it a stalemate is to not
exist. Refusing to want is to not exist. All that leaves you is to play
the game. Winning or losing becomes irrelevant when you play it long enough
or think you have or tire of it too much. Trying to figure out the real
rules not mentioned, how to play the game like none before, find some loophole
or some obscure interpretation which will be something different, never
tried before, to rise above the game and redefine the game itself to become
what no one before imagined it could be or how it could be interpreted
and played. Not simply to redefine the limitations or potential of yourself
or even your species, but to fundamentally redefine existence itself for
any being in any time anywhere in the Universe in what they can be or aspire
to become.
(Note:
That was the last thing written or the jumping off point or set up to when
Time Roads was started. It could be said to have been a search to find
the biggest monkey wrench to throw into the machinery of the Universe or
time at least that I could imagine, turn the perception of time inside
out, map consciousness, and the so-called Theory of Everything was to be
only a brief few pages of Chapter 4. I never abandoned it completely as
2D,
3D, 4D, 5D Thinking Made Simple is simply a continuation and expansion
of Chapter 3's ideas, but the rest will mostly go forever undone and humanity
will almost certainly never (usually) get past Chapter 4 anyway. To
a calmer, gentler species, Cheers. ;-)
Time
Roads and Existential Roads: An Overview........