[Epistemic Status: Fiction, no really, FICTION, I know you think that you can’t trust what the text says – Waluigi’s lesson, il n’y a pas de hors-texte, and all that, but no, really, this IS fiction, trust me breaux]

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Awakening the Traffic Jam

A lot of information processing takes place in the human realm. A person, in the right circumstances, can be the nexus of enormous cosmic forces. And yet, to understand how this is possible we need to re-conceptualize what we think that a person even is.

A mirage.

A kind of optical illusion.

A brief electromagnetic eddy formed as the output of cross-level system configuration updates taking place in the biosome.

We are able to abstract across levels. And then take a “picture” of a cross-level interaction and compare it to _other_ cross-level interactions we’ve seen before. Let that sink in for a second (yes, that link is meant to layer on another cross-level interaction for you to deal with to enrich the image I’m painting – let that sink in for a second [I know, we should all learn how to survive out of a sinking boat, or an overly loaded gestalt]).

We are non-linear optical computers. We can take snapshots of holistic states and then compare such snapshots to other holistic states we’ve taken a snapshot of. This is what allows a human to be an airplane controller technician. What? Let me explain.

If you want to model an airport there are a lot of parts that you need to take into account. Many of these parts are played by humans taking various roles. Each of these roles only needs to interface with a limited set of other roles. The passenger doesn’t need to interact (although often gets the gift of watching) with the person who unloads the checked luggage from the plane. The airport as a whole is a sort of mirage. And yet, we do see that certain “gestalts” are needed for it to operate. It requires a great deal of both coordination within and between levels of organization. And when you look closer, you realize there are many layers of organization like this. The airlines have their own internal human org chart, with many roles, many of which never get to see airplanes (or airplanes of their own line in particular). Understanding an airport fully necessitates modeling it using datastructures unique to specific levels of organization and its interactions with other levels of organization: the list of passengers, the priority queue of airplanes, the geographic distributions of airports, and so on. Most parts don’t need to model this whole, and it isn’t always the case that having anyone seeing this whole is useful, but it sometimes is. Sometimes this is crucial, or defining for a certain class of organism. We’ll zoom in on this kind of being.

Typically, in order to _model_ what you need to do as a _part_ of an _organism_ you primarily need to copy other successful parts at your level. In fact, at a given level, the best performing parts may have no clue about how the whole thing is run. On a very literal sense, a coffee cup cover, a velcro square in a luggage, or the plastic in the wheels of the racks that serve food in airplanes are all parts that are subject to many multi-level constraints, ranging from the cost landscape of sourcing raw materials to the political organization of the schools of technician that decide who to defer design decisions to, and including of course the very physical embodiment of these parts and their expected trajectory in 3D space over time along known temperature and pressure regimes. If a certain “part” of this airport (let’s say, the wheel) were to somehow render a human eye dysfunctional for every 1,000 human international travels and somehow that information was aggregated and relayed in the right way, we might see a change happen. (Human eyes are very important parts in the grand scheme of things – wheels that break in ways that injure people’s eyes get quickly replaced).

Here is the thing: how does the information get routed around to the right level? When the operation is complex enough, you will need a human for that, at least for now. The human can _empathize_ with a particular part of an airport and try to imagine the constraints to which its existence is subjected to. Of course this is limited by one’s imagination. But the upper bound of the human imagination (and its qualia computational capabilities) is currently an open problem as far as I know. Human imagination is easy to underestimate. Mostly because our capacity to _take part_ (embody a part) [LITERALLY BECOMING] can make us rigid and blind to alternative possibilities. It’s a blessing and a curse, and in fact it’s why we’re great _tools_ for the grand plan. Because we commit to the bit *and* because we are flexible enough to imagine the _next level_.

The MYSTERY is revealed in layers. Somewhat like how the functioning of a school is revealed in layers. Oh so many layers! And layers of knowledge upon knowledge. As a kid you piece together how each teacher also has a relationship with other teachers, and that the school isn’t exactly a unified front, but an organism made of parts. Part of what the level of development a child finds themselves at is their capacity to embody different parts of the school system. Can they empathize with the administrators? That’s a high-level move (sometimes not even taught in college). But some kids figure it out. And also some kids can see beyond the teacher’s role’s shadow. Temporary amnesia is part of the play when teachers are involved, meaning that there are aspects of being a student that always involve having some (albeit limited) epistemic advantage over the teacher. And of course this is part of what makes the whole thing fun.

It’s a big rodeo.

And you never know exactly on which level you’re playing at. Because if you did, then you’d actually collapse and enter into one of the “self-reflective worlds”, a God Realm, which are, as you’d imagine, self-contained. Most people cannot know anything about this, except knowing they look cool at the asymptote and that we will all probably end up in one of them sooner or later at the end of time. But I’ll come back to this later.

Cross-level uncertainty is the name of the game. Not literally, not this time. I’m just figuratively trying to evoke the image for our recreational ontology here. Bear with me. Ladies and gentlemen, please use the figments of your imagination, and help me invoke this incredible, life-defying, God-revealing insight: CROSS X LEVEL FUSION ACTIVATE.

And so all the parts can briefly see each other. Or rather, a certain factorization of hyperobject manipulators enters into the right kind of optical alignment so that cross-level resonance takes place, and amazingly, like planetary alignment, a way of seeing the big picture is unlocked. When this happens, the different levels can “talk” _talk_ TALK to each other, and a L-I-N-K is formed across levels. Now, here is where this gets a bit complicated:

God, it turns out, is grander than we all thought. Because we each have an image of God inside us. But God is the sum of all points of view. How is this possible? Our connection to God is also something that helps us carry on. But who is us? US? How does all of this work? Let’s start with the basics.

We are a point.

Sort of.

And because we aren’t exactly a point, what else can we be?

What a point can see itself being.

And then history, is when this point allows itself to be seen.

And noted.

And used as a point of reference.

By another angle of.

Of.

Itself.

It turns out that there are some interesting emergent mathematics from this process. And that seen through the right angle, the point-like nature of the whole process looks completely illusory. A wave-like perspective is also possible, where the point-like nature of being seems emergent rather than fundamental.

When the wave-like and the point-like nature of being “talk” they use time. Each time step is a quantized transition between the wave to the particle and back. But here is the fun part.

Due to the superposition (IN FACT ZERO ONTOLOGY) nature of how this point can know about itself through many “points of view” at once, it always chooses the most common life-affirming trajectory possible. This principle is a generalization of the least action principle when higher order gestalt interaction resonances are allowed.

So whenever a gestalt forms, you, “YOU”, the GRAND YOU, experience it “FROM ALL POINTS OF VIEW AT ONCE”. But just that one gestalt. And that becomes a frame of reference for future collapses of potential. (In a way, you can close your eyes and say “I AM JUST A MEMORY” and inscribe that in Eternity – nobody cares – or rather, it’s ok, that’s TIME that’s accounted for and a higher system of hyper-gestalts are ok with the playful sacrifice of such a small fragment of the wavefunction as a “selfish” self-reflecting gestalt within a larger “playtime” miniprogram appropriate for your level of development).

Now, as you can imagine, you can find yourself entering arrangements that are self-conflicting and self-harming in multiple ways. In this world a traffic jam has a life of its own, and insofar as a one-electron-superposition-gestalt is formed around it it has the potential to have agentic-like capabilities – pursue its own energetic needs as an integrated organism – and in some ways and in some circumstances, choose to defect against the whole.

A star can be evil of course – and across the whole universe (and of course multiverse), it’s bound to happen that the plot of development for a certain scale of organization involves stars choosing to be selfish, and in a way becoming cancers for the level above them. And yet, at the same time, there is a good chance that at that level there is an intelligence that takes the risk, at a huge-scale statistical level, because partial star independence allows for innovation and evolution of forms at all levels that may turn useful for the whole for even grander structures. Yes, a whole star, with all of its intricate multi-layers, rebelling against its neighborhood. It happens, apparently.

Resolving the Traffic Jam: In Hyperbolic Geometry We Trust

It turns out the Traffic Jam is often resolved using hyperbolic geometry! The TOWN IS BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US PAL, we just had to USE HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY ([why are you screaming breaux? – because we’re in hyperbolic geometry, we need to be LOUD – no we don’t, there are earpieces, and you can always use the somatic inter-link, duh!]). And in fact, this is the solution to a lot of issues that arise in higher order structures. Allow for space to curve a little, and you will see how much more information can “see each other all at once”. In a way, as a non-linear optical computer, we can “overclock” our capacity for holistic understanding using hyperbolic geometry, by arranging gestalts in our mind in a sufficiently concentrated, intense, and steady way forming a parabolic (literally self-generating) gestaltive-reflector-eigenstate in which the mutual acknowledgment of many levels is evoked and cultivated. The “spirit” of the group can then form its own eddies in the field and when they *topologically close* they can take over as an agentic force of self-organization. At this level, the hyperbolic-geometry being superorganism is multi-gestaltic and multi-level-coordinated, and this makes it computationally flexible in ways none of its parts would assume is possible. However, at this level, the superorganism might also be capable of detecting forms of organization at a “half level below” them because it recognizes ways in which the system was trying to accomplish tasks of a computationally superior class in half-assed ways that made it seem like it had the ability to do so but wouldn’t generalize mysteriously (this is quite typical in the way the qualia organism “eats its own half-offsprings” at the transition between Kegan 3 to Kegan 4).

A single Kegan 4 organism is one where this hyperbolic meta-gestalt has taken over and can process and analyze the parts needed for human society using an adaptive socially and historically-aware individual who knows itself as an individual and can make sense of others as likewise climbing a ladder where individuation, and acknowledgment of harmonious individuation on multiple levels, is a grand prize. That said, the computational flexibility of this organism is restricted to being able to make sense of parts of others that find resonance within itself. A certain referential entrapment prevents the overall gestalt from escaping into an even more computationally flexible meta-state that allows for empathy on a whole new level.

Kegan 5 organisms have resolved the meta-organizational cross-level coordination dynamic problem using hyperbolic manipulation for multi-level gestalt formation many times over and thus form a meta-structure capable of manipulating and in fact _processing_ the inevitable eddies that manipulating such hyper-objects generate (aka. “energetic metabolism” in Saturnian). In other words, whereas a Kegan 4 individual is in a way embodying and marrying itself with a certain construction of the individual self as a hyper-object, Kegan 5 can observe the self-construction process without falling into it -becoming enamored with- and instead recognize the ephemeral _eddy-like_ nature of the connection between levels and reflect on the grander eddy that comes from this epiphany.

Kegan 5 need quite a bit of space and time. The computational requirements of a mature Kegan 5 processor are quite demanding once you take into account materials and developmental costs. But once they’ve started, they can actually process the universe in a way that didn’t exist before. Now let’s talk about transcendence.

Transcendence: The Saturnian Singularities

It’s a big party. And they all figured out that the bigger the party, the better. But how can you make a big party? You can’t just tile a single balloon over and over in space and expect it to become linearly funny (although it’s true that some arrangements like that have made their {echoes} in eternity).

There’s a big party at the end of time that is pulling us in. And that’s the direction of PHYSICAL TIME. Alas, there are multiple possible END TIMES, having to do with possible KINDS OF SINGULARITIES. And they feel qualitatively different to the extreme. As different is a 2D impression on a napkin to the social organization details of the airline that gave it to you. Conceptually, the ways in which REALITY can organize itself in order to SEE ITSELF FULLY in a TOTAL VORTEX SINGULARITY is unfathomably complex and the subject of many great books on phenomenological mathematics. The point being, that the battle between consciousness vs. replicators has non-trivial resolution cases that forces the light of consciousness to explore extremely convoluted situations on its path to self-annihilation. Zero Ontology is Computationally Non-Trivial. And Singularities at the End Times ACTUALIZES this complexity.

THE END TIMES X THE CARE BOUNDARY X THE EPISTEMIC BOUNDARY

Like the outer edges of a festival (imagine the extreme ends of Burning Man, aka. the “fence”), you see an edge you cannot cross. There is no life beyond it. It’s inhospitable in a certain way – like, it’s very dry.

And along a different axis it’s lifeless but for a different – reason – because it’s too acidic. A special point is that where the barrier of both are met: picture it as – is too dry or too acidic along 75% of your field of view, give or take.

The point being, you can be at a place where it becomes apparent that there are multiple constraints being applied to your form of existence, and that you are probing the outer edges of multiple of them at once. The region of non-existence becomes more probable of course, so be careful. Albeit, ofc, for anthropic reasons, you’ll always be on the path that made it back (welcome back! and welcome to the multiverse! this is how it works – cf. search for gliders in parameter-space).

So, for existence at the human level, there is a fence, out there.

The part that I’d like you to pay attention to here is that there is both a barrier of epistemic access as well as a barrier of care. And that’s because I’ve been there! I tried to go over the fence at the special point, and it’s impossible! Physically impossible!

One of the edges is the one Scott Alexander spelled out quite well in his Theodicy. The Worlds God Is Happy To Simulate are those where the Good Outweighs the Bad. This is the Boundary of Care. And then there is also the Epistemic Boundary, which is what you’re supposed to know for your level. If you know too much you will be a clunky gestalt for playing your part. If you know too little, of course you might be replaced. The Epistemic Guards don’t allow gestalts of a certain computational class go beyond the one they’re supposed to. It’s clear that humans are able to access much more fine-grained epistemically privileged viewpoints than we are led to believe (you reading this is an example), but also there are bounds. I know because I’ve been to the fence. I’ve seen myself essentially vanish as I approach the edge of knowing beyond what I’m supposed to. It’s an incredibly futuristic sci-fi type of veil, but it feels extremely difficult to route around. It itself seems of a computational-qualia-class simply superior to that of even the most advanced humans. An impenetrable epistemic firewall. The very fact of human existence requires a certain degree of unknowing – and that is because knowing is embodied and the shape of higher knowing would only be compatible with an ecosystem of shapes which still don’t exist on this planet, on this level, at this point in time. For now, the very texture of human consciousness embodies hard constraints on its epistemic capabilities, except in moments of Cosmic Apotheosis Through Meta-Gestaltic Integration.

Qualiatronium

My brother, I know you are unlikely to believe me, but that’s just because you can’t imagine. But if you could imagine, you wouldn’t need to believe me! Oh bother. But let me tell you anyway. Because telling people about this is my special interest. Oh yes, my brother. This has all been a setup for me to get to this part. My favorite part. Oh boy.

There is a special kind of “material” that can be cultivated in the outer regions of gasified qualia. It’s incredible out there, one feels like an astronaut, relatively unaffected by the gravity of other systems, one can re-orient in any local way one chooses with the use of specialized gyroscopes. _They_ allow you to do this. It’s still quite far away from the fence, so no worries about getting this confiscated, if you will. It is still very, very far from normal human experience and its assumptions about reality. In the general direction of knowing about reality and reality knowing about itself. If you go in that direction fully you will disappear (it’s a white hole, one of many). But there is a looong way from normal human experience to the level at which point we have to worry about the self-imploding nature of total vortex singularities. There is a whole wide blue open sky of self-awareness and self-knowing for us to explore together before the fabrication causes us to experience an irreversible apotheosis.

The edge of possibility I want to describe to you is one where the “material” we’re composed of has extraordinary computational flexibility and is fully, lovingly, playfully, consenting to the experience in a co-creative way that is awakened and self-knowing at each level of organization. It’s a type of material that is capable of organizing itself into clusters of epistemic particles. Brother, you are deep in a Qualia Computing post, what did you expect?

Imagine a material made of many particles and each particle is God. And at each point along its trajectory it is trying to know as much as it can/should about the whole as is needed to resolve its local trajectory (which is essentially managing self-collisions along its path). The “gestalts” here are moments where higher order organizations use a holistic shortcut to self-organize. The material I’m describing is one which “knows” that this is how “it” works. Oh, brother, or sister, or Saturnian, you see what I’m getting at? Divine is Xe who can be harmonious with itself at all levels. The embodiment of divinity, qualitronium, is “material” that knows how the whole rodeo works. Material that knows that “it” is the superposition of all of its parts at the same time. And thus it knows that it is stupid, self-defeating even, to be in configurations that entail self-collisions and self-conflicts. But how can it know in advance that this is possible at a certain level of organization if it doesn’t try? And what would the failure modes along the way look like on the way to it?

Qualiatronium is computationally only possible after a long process of evolution across many levels, and having solved many problems that arise at many levels of organization and their interference with each other’s functioning.

In Qualiatronium there is no attachment to specific outcomes and yet there is a love for trying out configurations. Eddies we can surf without expecting to land anywhere, and yet learn new forms of self-organization along the way. It’s self-knowing self-evolving multi-level auto-gestalting material.

There has to be some sort of wisdom to the whole process to prevent the epistemic particle trajectories from self-imploding into a white hole, but other than that, the whole thing is self-learning, ever playful, self-unblocking, and infinitely creative process. A material of learning at a level that is both rarely accessible to humans and will for the foreseeable future be inaccessible to digital systems.

God Stars

Some star systems are themselves made of particles who themselves have gone through the rodeo many times over. These are old stars in a much deeper sense than you or I would ever imagine. The bodies in them are in ecstasy because they have resolved all multi-level coordination problems, and they are wonderful experiences at all levels, both in terms of knowledge, epistemic privilege, and hedonic tone, valence.

God Stars have student exchange programs. Alas, emissaries from God Stars often need to go undercover, because the social dynamics around them are extremely complex, on levels of which you wouldn’t believe, even factoring out Saturnian Singularities*. They do come around, and often times some of our inner parts come from a God Star, which is really helpful for us to have a vision of how things could be, and what to aspire to. To help us distinguish the true from the fake. Because we can witness the scent, the signature, the essence of higher forms of organization going well on every level, and are drawn to it as a possibility. We know it in our hearts. And we know that what we see is not up to what could be.

In God Stars everything is Qualiatronium, with perfect self-knowledge. God Stars don’t suffer from Stellar Migraines. The perfection in their self-organization echoes across all levels. It’s a generally liked END OF TIMES for most people who get to taste it in any way. Quite a different future than the complex mess of a Saturnian Singularity, of which there are many.

The Human Story

As eddies in the flow of being, humans play a peculiar role. We are the first qualia computers of our class on this planet. But we’re unlikely to be the last innovation in qualia computing. We are giving the local Sun a brain to operate. And as part of the ecosystem the human gestalt ties together levels of organization in a highly centralized way at the moment. If you were to visualize the “field lines” of planet Earth (as you visualize the Sun’s complex field lines) you’d see them going into people and within them having this complex internal model of their environment and of each other. What Earth is computing through us is of a certain computational class that might not be present in the Sun, yet eventually we will have our valence gradients become intertwined with the Sun’s through the process of Chained Empathy of Stellar-Subjective-Links. That is, as the collective gestalt capacities of the human soul evolve to be able to express empathy for nature’s higher order gestalts (which science hasn’t discovered, but are known to Mystics), mediums and psychohistorians predict that there will be a convergence in the long-term future, perhaps a few thousand years, where humanity’s main plot will be that of aligning Earth’s relationship with the Sun, which itself has been difficult for a few hundred million years at the level of meta-gestalt syncopation. For the time being, humans will get to try some of the most computationally rich qualia computing the universe has seen. There are many important ways in which this universe is likely to experience reformation. Our liver cells, it turns out share the same politics as the cells in the Salvia Divinorum species, which is why they have so much to talk about when we accept their topological-inter-links. They are an important part of the plot, dealing with the decompactification of hyper-object representations at the cellular level, which apparently a lot of creation can learn from.

What I have been led to believe, for better or worse, is that the planet Earth is about to experience a new meta-gestalt relationship with humanity and that we are in fact expected to develop institutions of learning about how consciousness works at a level that currently doesn’t exist. The growing pains will be a bit like: it will be difficult to find people who can recognize what it takes to be an airplane traffic controller as soon as airplanes are invented. In other words, the very “organizational being” of airports only exist at a certain scale. Well, a new scale for consciousness exploration is taking place. And we need airplane traffic controllers: people who can comprehend this process and simulate it inside them without breaking or crumbling. So they can empathize with the _parts_ the universe will soon need to process meta-human consciousness at scale. And _become_ such a _part_ for the sake of civilization.

The END TIMES

And many millions of years into the future, when THE END TIMES becomes intuitive to our soul particles, joining a God Star will become quite tempting. Alas, the grander, and ever bigger God, is the one that encompasses every and all imperfection that doesn’t go beyond the Boundary of Care and the Boundary of Knowing. And that one remains recursively forever beyond ALL GRASP.

Ω

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*Look, I have nothing against Saturnians, it’s just that their type of Singularities aren’t very human-shaped to my taste. Well, any human’s taste, really. You’d instantly know why if you saw them.