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A thought experiment of breaking down the experienced universe, deconstructing it starting with the self and working backwards to try to understand the Universe. After trying to understand your world without you, other sections are about the Universe without Humanity, without intelligent life, without matter, etc. Afterwards it has sections dealing with such things as alternate timelines and a cyclical Universe. The Sections are titled Man Becoming Death, Destroyer of Worlds, Impossible To Never Exist, Shifting Perspective To The Other Blocks, Different Aspects of The Same Story, Generically Human, Without Humanity, Without Animate Matter, In The End and In the Beginning, Breaking Probability Waves, Shattering Time, Multidimensionalism: Lenses, Interruptions, and Shadows, Measure All Things Together, Probability Undefined, I Experience Therefore I Am, But What?, Whose Universe Is It Anyway?, and To Co-Exist.
From the Introduction
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The ability to be constantly turning experiences like objects to see them from new and different angles is the kind of intelligence most will trade for “knowledge”. This too is an aspect of moving through time. We tend to settle into our own “right” ways of seeing things and lose the fascination or need to turn them or try to see them differently constantly.
When environmental factors get changed dramatically, it is like moving all the walls around. The more expectations you have, the more they will eventually get in the way, and the more we have to relearn how to build new maps the hard way, step by step one line at a time, from scratch again. This book's overriding theme, if it has one, is how to keep turning things over to keep seeing them from other angles.
If not other angles, then OTHERS’ angles, or other people’s points of view. The sum of all viewpoints or all ways of seeing is what the Universe, if it can see and know, would be what it sees and knows. Comprehending all of that in its entirety may seem hopeless, but we get there bit by bit not only from the accumulation of our own experiences and memories, but by trying to see and know from those other angles of others’ perspectives all around us.
Not only to learn to see all the world new everyday through new eyes and new perspectives and points of view embodied in others, but to see ourselves differently through them as well. It is not always easy nor is it always pleasant, but it is always new and different, amazing and wondrous, to see everything and yourself from angles or perspectives you never saw from before.
The first rule of found or empirical knowledge is that you tend to find more of what you are looking for than what you are not. It need not even be a bias, or tendency to discount non-conforming data as irrelevant or unimportant. The very fact that you have an idea of what you will see or find to be the case, means you will seek out or find ways to reach that end, by-passing other routes or ways of seeing that over the long run prove to be more direct and simpler.
No matter how you wish to term it or slice it, you always find what you are looking for by having an idea about it more often than its opposite or alternatives, because in those opposites or alternatives you are not looking as deeply or scrutinizing as equally, or as equals. In this sense truths or viable alternatives to what we believe, we are bumping into all the time and simply not recognizing them yet as such.
To see simultaneously and equally both with and without expectations at once is the only way to experience the Universe beyond your expectations or limits of just being yourself, or outside that bubble of reality you create around yourself to move into and inhabit. More simply put, never give up the wonder for what you will soon enough find you only thought you knew or understood. It is never a wise trade.
From First section
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...In this I will be discussing intellectually deconstructing the Universe, not actually doing it, nor how best to do it, nor whether it could or ought to be done. It is a thought exercise of breaking the Universe down to its component parts starting with the self and working backwards. ...
The sea of possible events we swim through everyday in totality is beyond our comprehension, so deconstructing if you will, what world, what universe, which we inhabit is a chance to try to gain perspective on our perspectives. To look at us looking at ourselves, by removing step by step what we are, what we have to look at, until at last we are left with a universe which only might have been. That I see as a worthy goal of a mind turned in on itself and a universe which we turn inside out every day we contemplate what events should occur within it.
From the Introduction
=========================
The ability to be constantly turning experiences like objects to see them from new and different angles is the kind of intelligence most will trade for “knowledge”. This too is an aspect of moving through time. We tend to settle into our own “right” ways of seeing things and lose the fascination or need to turn them or try to see them differently constantly.
When environmental factors get changed dramatically, it is like moving all the walls around. The more expectations you have, the more they will eventually get in the way, and the more we have to relearn how to build new maps the hard way, step by step one line at a time, from scratch again. This book's overriding theme, if it has one, is how to keep turning things over to keep seeing them from other angles.
If not other angles, then OTHERS’ angles, or other people’s points of view. The sum of all viewpoints or all ways of seeing is what the Universe, if it can see and know, would be what it sees and knows. Comprehending all of that in its entirety may seem hopeless, but we get there bit by bit not only from the accumulation of our own experiences and memories, but by trying to see and know from those other angles of others’ perspectives all around us.
Not only to learn to see all the world new everyday through new eyes and new perspectives and points of view embodied in others, but to see ourselves differently through them as well. It is not always easy nor is it always pleasant, but it is always new and different, amazing and wondrous, to see everything and yourself from angles or perspectives you never saw from before.
The first rule of found or empirical knowledge is that you tend to find more of what you are looking for than what you are not. It need not even be a bias, or tendency to discount non-conforming data as irrelevant or unimportant. The very fact that you have an idea of what you will see or find to be the case, means you will seek out or find ways to reach that end, by-passing other routes or ways of seeing that over the long run prove to be more direct and simpler.
No matter how you wish to term it or slice it, you always find what you are looking for by having an idea about it more often than its opposite or alternatives, because in those opposites or alternatives you are not looking as deeply or scrutinizing as equally, or as equals. In this sense truths or viable alternatives to what we believe, we are bumping into all the time and simply not recognizing them yet as such.
To see simultaneously and equally both with and without expectations at once is the only way to experience the Universe beyond your expectations or limits of just being yourself, or outside that bubble of reality you create around yourself to move into and inhabit. More simply put, never give up the wonder for what you will soon enough find you only thought you knew or understood. It is never a wise trade.
From First section
===================
...In this I will be discussing intellectually deconstructing the Universe, not actually doing it, nor how best to do it, nor whether it could or ought to be done. It is a thought exercise of breaking the Universe down to its component parts starting with the self and working backwards. ...
The sea of possible events we swim through everyday in totality is beyond our comprehension, so deconstructing if you will, what world, what universe, which we inhabit is a chance to try to gain perspective on our perspectives. To look at us looking at ourselves, by removing step by step what we are, what we have to look at, until at last we are left with a universe which only might have been. That I see as a worthy goal of a mind turned in on itself and a universe which we turn inside out every day we contemplate what events should occur within it.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940014477192 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Jared DuBois |
| Publication date: | 04/29/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 253 KB |
About the Author
Jared DuBois is a writer and artist who lives on Maui in the state of Hawaii.
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