In the latest chapter of The Light, you mentioned that PKD discussed “the shared consensus on reality”…that hit me hard. When I took all of 2020 to help make masks and learn Buddhism and meditation, I had an experience one day during meditation on my back deck where it seemed like all of the “stuff” in the universe was undifferentiated building blocks, constructive interference of energy, and that reality itself is conscious consensus (e.g. this tree is a tree because too many have been conscious of it and now it’s forever a tree) It is a strange “theory” (with no basis in reality) of mine that dark matter is undifferentiated space or a blank canvas, and black holes simply recycle energy /matter /information. Is it just an idea of a spoon we hold via conscious consensus, a hologram of a spoon, and Uri could overrule parts of that? Could he change the source code? Like a puppeteer setting down his puppet, walking a couple steps and interfering with another puppet in that place where holograms originate? I know I’m being literal. Like Eric Weinstein asks, “What happens when we discover our source code?”
… and Hoffman of course asks the same question when he says: can we (ie he) find the source code for the interface? If - per Hoffman - reality is a 2D projection of 3D information, then the spoon is no more than an iconic (symbolic) representation of raw information/energy rendered into existence by … what? Consciousness, I guess … but it could be something else. PKD opened up a whole new avenue of thought for me, which I’m still travelling (and will be for a while!). Yes, maybe Uri has hacked the code
I think I mentioned to you once before that a former colleague of mine who had been a 3* in the RAF (and the most grounded and stable person you could hope to meet) related a very similar story. Invited to dinner with UG along with a group of serving military types, must be about 20 years ago, they all brought their own spoons. UG bent them one after another using only his thumb and one finger.*
I asked if it was a well practiced parlour trick and the response was “no”, they were utterly convinced by what they’d witnessed.
*I’ve tried doing this with deliberate physical force and there is no way to bring the necessary physical force to bear with only two points of contact.
Seeing stuff like this for real makes one wonder what isn’t possible!
And that’s both a scary and a wonderful thought!
Absolutely … it’s magical and (at times a bit) scary both!
There is no spoon.
Ah, well, yes, I can’t argue with that!
In the latest chapter of The Light, you mentioned that PKD discussed “the shared consensus on reality”…that hit me hard. When I took all of 2020 to help make masks and learn Buddhism and meditation, I had an experience one day during meditation on my back deck where it seemed like all of the “stuff” in the universe was undifferentiated building blocks, constructive interference of energy, and that reality itself is conscious consensus (e.g. this tree is a tree because too many have been conscious of it and now it’s forever a tree) It is a strange “theory” (with no basis in reality) of mine that dark matter is undifferentiated space or a blank canvas, and black holes simply recycle energy /matter /information. Is it just an idea of a spoon we hold via conscious consensus, a hologram of a spoon, and Uri could overrule parts of that? Could he change the source code? Like a puppeteer setting down his puppet, walking a couple steps and interfering with another puppet in that place where holograms originate? I know I’m being literal. Like Eric Weinstein asks, “What happens when we discover our source code?”
… and Hoffman of course asks the same question when he says: can we (ie he) find the source code for the interface? If - per Hoffman - reality is a 2D projection of 3D information, then the spoon is no more than an iconic (symbolic) representation of raw information/energy rendered into existence by … what? Consciousness, I guess … but it could be something else. PKD opened up a whole new avenue of thought for me, which I’m still travelling (and will be for a while!). Yes, maybe Uri has hacked the code
Of course, we wouldn’t know how it was done, but just could do it. Sensed the end product. Good travels.
Elaborate?!!
I took it to mean nothing is really real … or was there more?
Hi Nick, marvellous anecdote!
I think I mentioned to you once before that a former colleague of mine who had been a 3* in the RAF (and the most grounded and stable person you could hope to meet) related a very similar story. Invited to dinner with UG along with a group of serving military types, must be about 20 years ago, they all brought their own spoons. UG bent them one after another using only his thumb and one finger.*
I asked if it was a well practiced parlour trick and the response was “no”, they were utterly convinced by what they’d witnessed.
*I’ve tried doing this with deliberate physical force and there is no way to bring the necessary physical force to bear with only two points of contact.
You did, Paul. I’d love to meet that 3* pal of yours!