This universe is a joke, and the joke is on us :-)
The joke theory — a song of praise to the human mind.
In this post we will see how the experiments proposed at the emotion management post, support a universal meta-physical / para-psychological thesis which views reality from a fresh point of view.
Realizing that life can be seen from a complete different perspective, can open up new possibilities for development and research in physics and psychology.
Emotions
In the Mind OS, emotions are modeled as the derivatives of thoughts.
Relax :-) you don’t need a PhD to understand this concept, it is very intuitive. We experience many derivatives in life. This is just a word that tries to capture a phenomenon we see.
Here is a simple example. Let’s take a bird’s-eye view on the ‘positiveness’ of thoughts that we will probably develop along the lifetime of a pet we adopt early in her life.
If our pet is alive and healthy, most thoughts attached to her in our mind would be positive. As her death will get closer, the positiveness of thoughts attached to our pet will go down. They may still be positive, but since the overall atmosphere will be less alive and joyful, positivity of thoughts will probably go down during this period. It may look like this:
And now, let’s look at our emotional states during our pet’s lifetime. Imagine ourselves riding a roller coaster slope named “my pet”. This roller coaster slope is made from our own thoughts that are attached in a way to our pet. So, we are seating on the bench seats in the roller coaster vehicle and are looking forward. Our emotions will change over time based on the section of the roller coaster we are at. It may look like this:
In this sense, emotions are the derivatives of thoughts.
Experimenting
The experiments proposed in the emotion management post, are fundamentally no more than attempts to keep the direction for our emotions (the derivatives of our thoughts) in line with a desired direction.
The first experiment is so doing by disassembling mind concepts that are rooted in our perception but has nothing to do with reality.
For example, Negativity. How many times in your life did you perceive something is negative, and after a while you realized it was positive for you? And how many times the same happened vice versa? Do we really know to tell the difference between positive and negative?
By questioning the very concept of Negative & Positive and by understanding that these are concepts of the mind, we are weakening their power over us.
What will then be the impact of this practice on our emotional state?
Let’s look again at our roller-coaster diagram. This time in a more metaphysical way.
Hypothesis
The above diagrams, visualize a projection of reality on the Time(x), Mind (y) plain. This plain is part of the Time(x), Mind(y) and Space(z) multidimensional “space” we live in. In a 3d diagram it could look like this:
In the specific example given above, it was [time, positivity (a mind concept), space].
By questioning and weakening the very concepts of something being positive or negative we mathematically eliminate the y axis from the Time, Mind, Space dimensions, and allow ourselves to flow with time and space. The emotional expression of this experience will be Joy. Joy will follow this mind activity because whenever we get detached from invented/borrowed mind concepts like positive & negative, we become free to experience life just the way life is, without distortions of virtual mind concepts.
Think of the period when you were young, free to experience and explore life without these virtual concepts of positive and negative? How joyful were you then? Or maybe you remember better the last time you fell in love, and without too much thinking dropped these positive/negative concepts for a while… how alive and joyful where you at that time?
The exact same level of liveliness and joyfulness can be achieved at any moment in life simply by transcending polar concepts of the mind.
The Second Experiment
The second experiment is an invitation for our mind to freely choose a specific emotion from a variety of emotions already classified as ‘emotions’ by our mind.
Psychologically, the idea behind this experiment is to set a direction for our emotional vector at a specific time/mind/space situation in the future.
If this practice indeed generates a specific desired thoughts motion (emotion) at a specific space in a specific future time, it will support the claim that our mind has the capability to freely choose between several potential emotions.
This means our emotional state is fully within our response-ability.
How can this be explained?
For this to be understood we need to shift the paradigm of how we view the world.
Life is a flux, and in this post context, a flux of thinking events. Living is all about how we flow with the stream of reality. The question is what point of perspective we use in order to navigate ourselves through the river of life.
One option is to look at the scene from the outside, as if we are objective witnesses of reality.
The other option is to look at the situation from ‘the eyes of the swimmer’.
Let’s visualize these two different points of view:
The “External” point of view:
This view includes our surrounding and us, as two separate entities. The view is limited by the amount of aggregated ontological knowledge we have about the universe. This is the way the universe is being looked at by the physics today. It is a so called “third person” view.
When looking from an external point of view at the situation, limited by the scope of our knowledge, we see the relationships between the swimmer and the river as two separate things. The river turns seem to be chaotic, as if the universe is playing dice to decide what the next turn of the river will look like.
The “Internal” point of view
This view views the whole scene from the inside out, from the eyes of the swimmer, and the self does not appear in this point of view. This is the so called “first person” view.
From this point of view, ontological knowledge about the universe shouldn’t be used to try and understand the universe, because the river keeps changing, and the swimmer never visits the same place twice.
From this point of view, we are always at the origin of the TMS multidimensional “space” and see the projection of reality on a sort of a virtual TMS sphere.
This projection is generated by our mind. The mind achieves this by:
1. Setting ‘mind values’ and a ‘time values’ for each ontological (“ontological”) point of data that it has accumulated.
2. Creating ‘forms’ to fill gaps between the points of ontological data projected on the virtual TMS sphere.
For these forms and empty gaps to be understood, we need to look at the universe from the point of view of the swimmer.
As swimmers, we are always at the current situation (t=0, m=0, s=0). By its definition, an ontological knowledge is the existing data about existing things. So as the swimmers, each such piece of data is projected for us by our mind as a dot on the virtual TMS sphere that surrounds us.
Mathematically, these are “dots”. That is, their sizes vanish in the eyes of the swimmer (i.e., from the swimmer perspective their size is zero). This is because TMS is an infinite space, and if a swimmer`s ability to perceive and process data is less then infinite, empty gaps between the projected ontological dots must exist.
What is it then, that we see ?
If all data is just zero-sized dots, then what is it that we see, sense, smell, taste & hear?
Our mind sees collections of dots and uses our existing ontological knowledge (memory) along with our imagination to fill the gaps between these dots by creating imaginary forms. This is like forming astrological forms by imagining lines connecting the bright dots in the dark night sky.
Therefore, from this point of view, the scene as we perceive it is no more than a collection of forms, drawn for us by our mind at the empty gaps that exist between the zero-sized points of ontological knowledge.
In my humble understanding, these are the ‘Form’ and the ‘Emptiness’ described by Siddhartha Gautama (A.K.A the Buddha) when sharing his existential point of view with Sri Putra “Here (from my “first person” view) … form is emptiness, and this very emptiness is form. Emptiness is not separate from form, form is not separate from emptiness, whatever is form is emptiness, whatever is emptiness is form.” (The heart sutra).
Zero-sized dots?
What is then the significance of ontological knowledge from this point of view?
From this point of view, the point of view of a swimmer, ontological pieces of knowledge are to be used as hooks. Hooks for improving our swimming as we swim. We collect the data points in our memory, and then, when a similar event would happen in the stream, we can try to respond in a better way based on past experience results.
At the same time, we can also use our imagination to fill fictitious data in the gaps between one point of ontological knowledge to another. By so doing, we shape the view projected by our mind on the virtual TMS sphere.
Living in the TMS space, any decision we make immediately evolves the forms we see in the virtual TMS sphere.
By so doing, we add pseudo, presumably desired, data to the perceived TMS ontological data. By itself this can already modify our subjective mood. Say, from fear to courage.
Left alone, it merely generates “para physical” effects. We should not underestimate this, because such effect has the potential to change the course of physical reality. A traditional example is of confusing a rope to be a snake. The physical reality is just a sparse “collection” of interacting so called “elementary particles” but miss drawing the appropriate form by our mind due to mental state of fear, might lead to an involuntary heart attack!
Bottom line, it is all up to us. The way we feel is the way we view the world :-)
The physical aspects of this theory are available here.
