For the first 25 years of my life, I never imagined myself writing anything resembling a 'paper' during my spare time, but eventually I realized I knew something that was both,
My interest in writing started the day my Dad told me "I wish I could see things like you do" when I was trying to explain to him that I don't harbor any bad feelings towards the past, and that he should forgive himself.
Named so, because the point of view I was trying to convey, was so beneficial, so behooving, so far ahead of the competition otherwise, that if it were a video game, it would be considered an exploit.
Here I try to focus on the positive side and every day uses cases for this crazy idea, called causality, despite its direct conflict with the 'free will' idea we seem to intuitively grab hold of as humans.
Here I try to confront the beast in the room with multiple examples, points of views, and additional resources on the topic.
Yes it can be scary confronting eternity face to face, but then it's comforting to realize you're simply looking in the mirror.
I have a few short writings that might qualify as poems.
One of them is a list of 10 things I thought my daughter should learn, that I wrote before she was born, in case I never got a chance to teach them.
Our thoughts are a drum
Our lives are a song
We are influenced by and provide influence to
Nothing is our own
Because nothing can be separated
From the whole
I'm just a number, value unknown
But my number changes
With each interaction
To some new number, still unknown
This is oddly predictable
I am causality, aware of itself
I learn more, with every interaction
My identity, becoming more complete
Yet still, oddly unpredictable; a leaf on the wind
Our numbers have crossed, math'd, and functioned
Again and again, the interval repeats
The things we learn, and then forget
I am the block universe
Experiencing every slice
With you
Causality = 1 leap of faith
Causality guides me to truth
Truth is my higher power
I see truth in all things
Any perceived paradoxes, or mistruths, flows or defects, are simply TRUE reflections of our own finiteness
So all things are divine
01 -- Every event is determined by a combination of previous events (antecedent conditions) and random fluctuations in spacetime.
02 -- There is no algorithm for determining the universe (it's non-computable) and so it cannot be exactly predicted (no destiny).
03 -- You can't have perfect knowledge of a system (Heisenberg uncertainty principle) and any set of useful axioms can be used to derive contradictions (Gödel's Theorem).
04 -- You ARE the Universe. Identity and free will are illusions of consciousness. In exchange, You ARE fundamentally connected (to the past, present, and future) to a Universal community through gravity and causal impact. I have known you for an eternity.
05 -- Be proactive. By the time 'now' happens it's just a physical process; prepare for the future while you have time.
06 -- Everything you do matters and will impact countless other pieces of the universe forward in time. At the same time, nothing matters because the universe will still end in heat death. Enjoy life every day.
07 -- Time and Life are illusions of entropy. Every order of complexity is derivative of another until we get to fundamental particles which are standing waves in a quantum field, or what I like to think of as quasi-infinite loops of spacetime.
08 -- As higher order functions, we have the responsibility to use our great causal influence to educate and awaken other parts of the universe, and to help solve the remaining great questions.
09 -- Exercise patience with the parts of the universe that do not yet see us as a whole; show compassion, love, and forgiveness to all parts including yourself.
-- Patience: Murphys Law, whatever can happen, will happen (with time).
-- Compassion: Understand each person is subject to forces outside of their control
-- Love: The greatest positive influence is to have another human in your life that cares about you.. If we all love each other, we all win.
-- Forgiveness: You can't change the past. You can however learn from it and prepare better for the future.
10 -- Every movement is a once in a lifetime moment, enjoy it while you can and find beauty every day
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