My Big TOE: creating space

Creating space-time

Space-time is not a physical construct, but a construct of consciousness created by imposing a set of constraints upon a subset of the larger reality. It is a consciousness interface filter that defines the perception (physical experience) of PMR to participating sentient conscious entities. Interactions between individuated units (subsets) of consciousness are constrained by PMR space, PMR time, PMR mass, energy, and gravity. All beings (conscious entities) within a particular subset of AUM's consciousness (a portion of its organizational potential; a chunk of thought-space) are delivered, by the rule-set representing space-time and defining its properties (one of the PMRK), a consistent virtual experience.

To AUM, space-time is theoretically a profitable internal environment/process that reduces the entropy of its overall system by reducing the entropy of the subset governed by those rules. Our PMR creates a rule-set within the space-time structure, which defines the processes that make us and our space-time uniquely profitable to AUM. Together, "space-time and the PMR rule-set constitute an optimized design solution for a virtual reality simulator that serves as an interactive multiplayer consciousness-quality development trainer for units of individuated consciousness."

Space-time cells constitute an AUM construct--in other words, space-time cells are conceptual, residing in the space-time part of the mind of AUM. Space becomes the structural basis, where time is the dynamic basis for this conceptualization, which will lead to a simple isotropic experience-space (reality) which will lead to the possibility of ordered change (as space-time enables a uniform experience) and therefore evolutionary profitability (growth). "Space-time subsequently becomes the fundamental media for a uniquely dimensioned sub-reality or virtual reality within the larger consciousness system."

My Big TOE: AUO evolves into AUM

AUO mutates to form unique, specialized mental spaces consisting of their own memory and computation-space: separate dimensions, or separate realities. "There may be dimension within dimension, reality within reality, like a set of Russian Matryoshka dolls or perhaps the concentric layers of an onion."

Each subset is contained within, derived from, and dependent upon the superset.
[less constrained (more degrees of freedom)]<--->[more constrained (fewer degrees of freedom)]
NPMR --> NPMRN (a subset of NPMR) --> various physical/non-physical realities (mental spaces of NPMRN, including our own PMR universe) 

 "When AUO eventually grows up and evolves into an extremely complex and highly ordered set of specialized reality cells performing specialized functions, it becomes an entirely different type of entity," what will now be called Absolute Unbounded Manifold (AUM), but at its core "is the same basic AUO consciousness energy sporting a more evolved level of awareness, lower entropy, and greater functionality."


Campbell asserts we're living at the dawn of an evolutionary and cultural transition because for the first time we humans can consciously and deliberate accelerate our consciousness by tinkering with the (biochemistry of) our mechanisms of conscious perception through genetic engineering and psychotropic drugs, aided by technologies like artificial intelligence and computer networks. In other words, the primary driver of evolution will no longer be random mutation and natural selection, but self-directing human intellect. 

This process will move faster and faster, but it remains to be seen whether it will raise or lower entropy. The determining factors? The nature, quality, stability, and balance of the system.
Edit: or maybe it's like this:

My Big TOE: Orders of mental process

Orders of mental process
As awareness masters and refines its evolving mental capabilities, newer, more complex motivations arise as a result of and in conjunction with the first-order imperative to implement the Fundamental Process. Newer, more complex second order functions then begin influencing and driving the evolutionary process, expanding the potential number of protitable states.


First-order function: Imperative to implement the Fundamental Process.

Second-order function: The complexity and interactive properties of the mental processes evolved to implement the Fundamental Process eventually evolve second-order functions like intention, feedback, interaction, synthesis, and integration. For example, the human ability to think and process information at such high levels results in unparalleled mental synthesis, integration, and interactive feedback, which amount to second-order consciousness functionality. This higher mental function is borne of bright awareness coupled with complexity of choice.

Third-order function: Second-order processes lead to development of values (quality): enjoyment, aesthetics, ideals. These, then, are now capable of influencing the outcome of the Fundamental Process. Given awareness and choice, there is then quality and value. Human brightness, with complex sounds and symbols, leads to evolution of music, literature, arts, sciences, technology. There is now such thing as "creativity," "fun," "preference," "morality."

My Big TOE: The birth of time

Dimensionality
A dimension is a well-defined processing subset within The Big Computer. Within digital consciousness, the creation of various dimensions is the creation of separate memory and processing subsets (like partitioning in digital computers).

We experience our perception of reality as 3D time-ordered only because the rules of our universe require four coordinates to specify individual events relative to an individual's frame of reference (each of which is as fundamentally proper as any other) on a temporal axis. The space-time rule-set is only a local rule set and does not apply to the larger reality.

How is time invented?
To invent time, AUO "needs only to oscillate (repetitively change the state of) some individual or group of reality cells more or less regularly. The cells oscillate at a constant, regular rate to be more functional (hence more profitable). Once cycle equals two oscillation frequencies--a change of state and a change back.

1. The Fundamental Process enables AUO to change, or modify its absolute oneness
2. AUO finds it can lower its entropy by changing states
3. Time separates a "before" state from an "after" state and therefore enables more organization and complexity and less entropy
4. Awareness of change, before and after states, necessitates the idea of a personal time

Why is time invented?
The organizational potential of a system multiples if it is possible for operations and content to be arranged in a specific order and sequence because "cause" and "effect" explodes exponentially the number of potential possibilities.

Interactive content can now be indexed and sequenced: sequences propagate and carry content. Regularity enables complex interaction. Causal logic chains evolve. Time acts as a catalytic agent--it enhances AUO's ability to self-organize. In terms of consciousness, which is pressured by self-improvement, more aware and highly organized configurations (higher quality consciousness) are profitable.

Time facilitates communication
AUO has relatively independent parts and patterns (reality cells). More possibilities and evolutionary potential can be generated if those parts and patterns can communicate because patterns of content can be propagated, integrated, and regulated. Communication is facilitated by time: A cell changes state, and an "adjacent" cell can now change state as a response to that cell's having changed state. A sent message and reception (change) takes place in a period of time. If there is a meaning encoded in the state change (like alphabets or gestures or sounds), that is communication and data sharing.

What is the fastest a given message can be propagated? However fast a single reality cell can change state. That is one half cycle, or one quantum, of AUO-time. This fundamental quantum of time is thus the smallest unit of time our AUO clock can directly measure.

My Big TOE: Mathematics and logic as large-scale computational memory

Terms
Rules: Knowledge-based or experience-based patterns for the reliable definition, repetition, and interaction of other patterns.
Control & hierarchy: evolve out of the concepts of "rules," because with pattern formation must come rules defining how patterns will form, and with pattern interaction and relationship must come rules governing that interaction and relationship.
Quantum: A minimum, discrete group of reality cells that interact with each other, use and share information (patterns of data) and modify themselves
Reality cell: A singular, relative disturbance in a uniform state. The simplest form is a basic, binary unit.
Information: Patterns of data.

My Big TOE: evolutionary constraints

How do complexity, specialization, & organization arise?
- Simpler entities band together cooperatively to form more complex entities and systems that are more powerful and thus more profitable for all participants.
- Groups of entities in an interactive synergistic environment integrate, thus becoming one complex thing--a system that evolves as its parts evolve.
- When systems of systems evolve, complexity, diversity and specialization increase; entropy is decreased by evolving higher orders of organization.

Constraints determine degree and range of diversity
The fewer the constraints, the more diversity there will be. Since biological systems are constrained by survival and propagation, it will not produce a preponderance of weak or non-reproducing organisms. However, within the constraints of evolving survival strategies or modes of locomotion, there were very few constraints and so there are many types of each on planet earth, and variations within each type.

AUO is constrained by the energy/focus/memory required to keep itself changing/evolving
AUO is driven by the Fundamental Process to
1. Improve and develop the potential of its being
2. The quality of its consciousness
3. The level, breadth, and depth of its potential

We've established that AUO is not constrained by survival and propagation. But it may be constrained by the energy or focus required to keep track of all the "gedanken experiments" in process. "To maintain and profitably organize all the information required to support a complex interactive virtual reality would require a good memory--or perhaps a big computer. The existence of limiting factors would inevitably lead a self-modifying computational system (digital organism) to set priorities and develop rules that optimize resource utilization.

Minimal constraints for AUO means increasing complexity
So AUO puts its limited energy (ability to modify its own internal environment) to increasing complexity in relation to itself. This is what is most profitable for it: redefining and improving its overall capacity, quality, and awareness. Awareness leads to ability to modify internal states, leads to modification of internal states to decrease overall entropy.

AUO's motivation and evolutionary purpose flows to us conscious beings, because as above, so below.

**Some of this is similar to Terence McKenna's novelty theory; briefly, that systems tend to increase in complexity over time, that systems are motivated to decrease entropy, that existence consists of dimensions beyond the 3rd and 4th occupied by units of higher consciousness, that humans can move into these dimensions.**