Waking Up in a Busy World: Is This a Simulation?

Consciousness is awareness with a choice...

Thomas Campbell

The following is just some information I have gathered from listening to Thomas Campbell speak with Tevin Naidu on the Mind Body podcast. It was a very interesting three plus hour video with sooo much information in it that I could not include all I picked up. To be honest, I also get a little lost when others talk about the "physics" of the matrix and computer system analogies so I may have skipped such sections a couple of times. Otherwise I held on and was fascinated. Even though I did do exactly as he says many others do when they listen to his My Big Toe Theroy (Theory of everything)...I found myself resisting and pushing away his theory as being invalid when he mentioned that the consciousness system wasn't God because it wasn't omniscient, omnipresent, or omnipotent. It didn't jell with what I would usually say I know to be true when simply it simply butted heads with a belief I cling to. Interesting.

Anyway, the following may or may not be in full quotation. I may ahve paraphrased most of it. I would encourage that you have a listen yourself to what he had to say...before reading my interpretation. And that is all this is, my intrepretation.

Consciousness is an information system. It gets input that it interprets into informations based on what it already knows...in a pattern match
He mentioned this in another podcast but I felt inclined to share it here. He tells the story of how the indigineous people of Mexico didn't know the Spaniards were coming onto shore because they literally could not see the big ships. The big ships or anything like them were not in their pattern match (in the data banks of collective memory) so they couldn't interpret them. Consciousness then computed that they didn't see them. Consciousness can choose to interpret or turn off a stimuli. \
We choose what we interpret...if we intrpret therefore we have free will
The trio consists of consciousness, free will, and time. They all have to consist together. You couldn't have a choice without time...You couldn't have consciousness (the choice to interpret or the choice of how you interpret) without free will
Materialism is the opposite of this view point. It is determinististic, seeing the world operating by predetermined rules and lawas, making it very predictable. If you believe this you have to believe that consciousness, time, and free will are illusions. This view creates a weak argument against consciousness but materialistic scientism is a belief that is inherent in western culture.
At one time prior to science the world was living in subjectivity governed by the intuitive mind and by "unproven beleif" in that which could not be seen or explained logically. Then science came along to argue against that model, proposing a need to "prove" what people were believing
Science says reality is only that which can be measured....if it can't be measured it isn't real
Most human action and expereince, however, occurs in the subjective (the felt experience) not the objective world....
Campbell proposes that it is a computed world, that space doesn't actually exist, that space like mass is not fundamental. This explains entaglement to some degree.
We are living in a matrix
The speed of light is not a constant it is changing at the 9th decimal points
Delta x/Delta t...think of pixels... the speed of light will move one pixel per one measurement of time
Our reality is pixulated...it is digital and we can change the resolutions...make the pixels bigger
What is time? It is the outer loop..the delta t
The conscious clock is much greater than the clock in our virtual experience here on earth
The delta t was set to be whatever it had to be to give a certain resolution. The system had to keep the resolution low so it seems like it is a continous motion but the resolution changes as we evolve...
Time has been set at Delta t and it can be changed...lower it and then you need to lower x too or else you will change the speed of light,
Readiness potential?...arm tissue will actually demonstrate that it is ready to move prior to the brain even realizing it is about to command a move.
Everything paranormal takes part in the intuitive side of conscsiousness
There is a probable future based on probability distribution of the possibilities
We can make models as accurate as you want
It takes a random draw from the possibilities in the probability distribution based on what is already know from the past to have an occurence
Cooperation evolves complexity...
Everything is love...love is the nature of a low entropy consciousness
Low entropy consciousness ( orderly, organized ) is waht the end goal is
The Buddha said the physical reality is just an illusion...Plato said what we are expereincing as reality are just shadows on the cave wall...
Campbell stresses that consciousness is fundamental and we are subsets of thatt consciousness. The system would like us to do better because as we lower our entropy, it lowers Its, because we are a part of it.
If you bully and co-erce...you just make things worse
Free will is sacred...we need to make our own choices...
Angry Gods grow up [old testament] and learn that love is the answer [new testament]
Your intent modifies future possibility [as seen as in placebo effect]
Is the larger consciousness system really God? He says he doesn't use that term "God"...he doesn't believe the system is omniscient...omnipresent or omnipotent...it is not eternal
Many would say the larger consciousness system is a good model for "God"...if you are not too ridid and dogmatic in your religious beliefs you might see it like that
He does believe love is the answer and that we are all one...
He refers to everything he speaks about or writes abouts as just concepts...use them as you will
I have proved that a larger consciousness system exists...if you wnat to use that word [God] that is up to you...
The only thing that is "real" is consciousness...derived from information
Consciousness is fundamental...information is real
States wedon't actually need math to create or prove scientific logic
A new paradigm is hard to get your head around...people find it hard to accept
Telvin says it is like "microdosing with idealism" ...taking logical steps into a different framework
Science be approached with rational logic and the putting away of assumptions
Agood model for undersatnding consciousness should have nothing to do with whther or not it lines up with what we already believe.
The big picture is not mathematical...its logic
If you try to understand consciousness with mathematics it isn't going to work.
Reality is consciousness
Most people don't think they have beliefs...they see their beliefs as facts...that is why we need to get rid of beliefs...they may feel the "facts" are being argued against when it is just their beliefs being tested. They may then shut down to these new possibilities.
Be skeptical...The person you have to be most skeptical about is yourself.
Models are always open for change
You can, through consciousness, modify physical reality but you can not modify consciousness through physical reality.
Consciousness doesn't get hungry ...it is just the player...the avatar it is playing may be hungry
The body will adapt to the consciousness...consciousness leads, body follows
As we grow up and evolve ( become more aware of consciousness) our biology changes.
He explains depression as a result of a negative attitude and self-deprecation that is carried in the consciousness...the body stops producing enough serotonin and other feel good neurotransmitters....
It is the attention on the uncertainity...insceurity...self loathing etc that changes the body etc
We are more likely to heal cancer before we are given information that something is cancer.ous...say before we get teh diagnosis and prognosis. We can modify the probablity....but if we are told it is cancer it is harder to heal it...the probablity for that prticular outcome is greater
Healthy mind, healthy body.
The consciousness that is playing this character [this human I call 'me'] doesn't come with history from the previous incarnation...All there is the quality of consciousness earned to that point when we incarnate into this body...clean slate.
All consciousness is netted...if you have an intent to share a person's mind you can connect and see what they see...even when they die. This is a skill anyone can learn...getting information from another's experience.
He explained what happens after death in pretty much the same way I have heard it before but he explains that most of that too is a simulation used to calm the attached and believing mind down. People who beleive in the need for movement...will see a tunnel. Those who believe or need connection with familiarity will see loved ones that pass on ...those are attached to fear based religious beleifs may see hell just until they are calmed down. He dis say we go through a processing and are then ready to choose another life [I like this idea of prebirth choice...it soothes me for some reason. I like to think I chose everything I am experiencng now.]
On skepticism, he wants people to be skeptical...He says it has to be your experience to be truth. We need to put away intellect though, and foster the intuitive mind...that is where teh paranormal is.
We can try practicing with mind to mind communication. We can meditate or quiet the mind, From there, we can go talk to another person we might be having some conflict with. Virtually, we can just share the way we feel and brainstorms ways to improve the situations. They will talk back...We must be nice and respectful. He says the more we practice the easier it gets.
We also need to find stuff that is evdential ...talk to dead person and get info that you can verify
There is lot of room between 0 and 1: 0 being "I don't believe a thing that you said"...and 1 being," Yes, I believe it allwithout any doubt."
Talked about the Fermi paradox
We need to develop our intuitive side, which was more developed when we were three than it is now.
All paranormal stuff is on the intuitive side.