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Space, time, mass, and energy are all the same kind of thing, can be converted to eachother. Black hole equations define that conversion ratio. I see lots of evidence for metaphysics but no evidence of dualism which is the theory that there are 2 incompatible parts of the universe which can not be converted to eachther. By Occam's Razor, I say consciousness is made of that same one thing, but not just in the limited shapes we've seen so far, also in high dimensional multiverse shapes like the Quantum Foam physicists say spacetime is made of.
I see no need for an "outside observer". Quoting what I wrote 2 other places about this, I'll explain how the universe is consistent without anything being outside, and that by universe I mean "everything that exists" so if something existed outside it would by definition already be part of the universe. But as you said that's getting too much into semantics, and I think we're mostly agreeing and both trying to find more accurate words than "god" which also refers to many things we don't mean.
The "philosophical zombie" may appear Human in all ways we can measure with current tech, but my claim is there is no part of reality completely out of reach of any other part of reality, so if a zombie fully duplicates every quantum entanglement and other high dimensional shape which form something, it also duplicates the consciousness. The only other option is dualism and I see no evidence for it.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/we-all-hold-a-world-view-what-is-the-first-propositionNonexistence and the existence of all possible things simultaneously, are the same shape, except one is made of "something" and the other made of "nothing", but "something" and "nothing" are only labels, and labels don't change content, so they equal. All things and nothing are therefore equal. I call this one thing they equal unity. There is no room for a master of the universe in unity because it equals nonexistence, but within that balance, anything and everything, except things which are not self consistent (unsolvable paradoxes), do happen. Unity is symmetric from all angles because there is nothing to unbalance it. The universe equals unity, but I had to define "universe" exactly so people don't throw in extra things, which by my definition are already part of unity.
Unity is nonexistence. Only unbalanced things are experienced as existing. Our reality is unbalanced from unity and therefore we experience it. All realities together cancel out. The universe overall does not exist. Only its parts do individually but not when observed together. It is not possible to observe them together because the observer would also be cancelled out in unity.
Since the universe does not exist, it can't take more than the smallest amount of energy to make big changes. How could it be difficult to change something which doesn't even exist.
Brains and other forms of intelligence make exponentially unlikely things happen from a statistical physics perspective, like its very unlikely the particles/waves in your body would move up a set of stairs instead of falling to the floor and spreading out, but that happens unusually often, so improbable an event it can only be compared to the formation of single celled life from nonliving material. With life and intelligence, the wavefunction of our reality is pushed repeatedly into more and more improbable states, and this can be used as a power source.
It is the belief that the universe exists, the strategies which result from that belief, that prevents each of us from using the power source of thought to directly change the world, in a chaos theory way echoing out changes strategicly, to change a reality from one variety of near nonexistence to another.
In the next quote I try to explain in the most technical way how the metaphysics connects to the rest of my brain theory:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/how-human-intelligence-worksThere is much disagreement on if brains have any quantum or nonlocal abilities, even in small amounts. If you search youtube for "psi wheel in a [clear closed] box 2"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKJGb4RNRB4 you'll see a video of me moving a piece of aluminum foil with my mind, so some of us have direct experience to answer that question. You can read about the debate here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind In the context of how Human intelligence works, I'll explain where that fits in. Telekinesis (moving things with your mind) starts using the 3d+1d grid in a very general way, with a centered mind. In my mind I see a 3d moving field, a smooth surface, without colors, and my thoughts bend it in complex ways. When I change my subconscious thoughts in a way that makes the "3d moving field" become flat and stop moving, then I am in a very centered state of mind and get the more advanced access to reality: Whatever I look at, and form ideas in my mind of (like shoe-over-elephant is an object, described above) whatever I'm looking at, by directing my attention to each part of the object individually and thinking about what it would feel like to touch each part of it... When I have a representation of the target object in my mind, and I continue to adjust my subconscious thoughts to keep the "3d moving field" balanced and motionless, then after that the other parts of telekinesis are done exactly like dreaming. Example: Rotate the object in your mind the same way you normally think about objects from different angles, and if you did it right, the object rotates in reality. It feels like reality is an other part of your mind, like you're dreaming but have only a very weak ability to change the dream, but that does not mean that's what reality really is. It means that's a way you can think to learn how to do telekinesis. Psychic abilities (including telepathy and telekinesis) are done mostly in the 3d+1d grid and a little connected to the 2d audio grid (temporal lobe) parts of my brain. I don't see or hear it, but those are the types of thinking its most similar to. Most people have no rotation ability in their 2d audio grid, but they can learn it. Similarly, most people never learn to use their telepathic or telekinetic abilities, while they do have the brain parts to access it. There is no brain part that only does psychic things. Each part has many functions.
You misunderstand what I mean by people thinking more like a global brain, networking ideas and patterns of thought through the Internet, optionally using EEG based game controllers as a higher bandwidth version of mouse, keyboard, screen, and speakers as the inputs and outputs. The flow of information between the subconscious minds is more important than how direct the interface is. You write about unbalances like "slavery/indentured servitude in the name of blind progress is far more efficient than letting people twiddle their thumbs and "enjoy life"", but slavery is about the least efficient way of organizing people there is. Brains do not tend to waste resources. Laziness is a great way of not spending resources, except when there are important things to be done. The nature of a brain is self balancing.
But a World War 3... I'm skeptical. The non-statist intellectuals are mixed in with societies everywhere and badly organized. It doesn't take more than a little police action to end such a "war" today.
Brains evolved to predict mostly linearly. They are terrible at exponential patterns, like waves in the most divergent stock prices. If it happened as the world is today, I would agree, but I'm predicting based on the feedback loop of statists regulating stronger and regulating more things as a reaction to brainists, and brainists inventing more ways to network minds together despite those regulations. Its a fact of history that statists see networking minds together as a threat on the level of revolution taking over a small country at least, because that's exactly what happened in Egypt through social networking, then they got really serious about the Internet Kill Switch. It happened because their leader was a terrorist who organized mass killings of Egyptians and other things. Facebook and Twitter are a big part of how the problem was solved.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/11/egypt-facebook-revolution-wael-ghonim_n_822078.htmlEgypt's Facebook Revolution: Wael Ghonim Thanks The Social Network
Shortly after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power on Friday, activist Wael Ghonim spoke with CNN's Wolf Blitzer and credited Facebook with the success of the Egyptian people's uprising.
Ghonim, a marketing manager for Google, played a key role in organizing the January 25 protest by reaching out to Egyptian youths on Facebook. Shortly after that first protest, Ghonim was arrested in Cairo and imprisoned for 12 days.
Since his release, Ghonim has become a symbol for the Egyptian movement, although he has rejected this notion. "I'm not a hero. I was writing on a keyboard on the Internet and I wasn't exposing my life to danger," he said in an interview immediately after his release. "The heroes are the one who are in the street."
Brainists will not allow our global neural connections to be cut as its literally a form of brain damage to our global brain. People don't say it that way, but thinking about the world as already a global brain not much self aware yet, its actions are easy to predict. It will defend itself similar to how corporations defended themselves by protecting "corporate personhood" and laws that allow them to lobby (put money to politicians which statistically has the effect of outputting laws favorable to those corporations). Statism and brainism are 2 life forms which each feel the need to defend themself. Did you take that it into account in your predictions?
