[quote]ZeWolfman wrote:
We’re the Beta Test Reality.
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I suppose you could put it that way although the implications of this are far better than you can imagine. Science proposes that the universe / multiverse is infinite and keeps going on in never ending recurring cycles of ‘Big Bangs’ at the beginning where it all explodes into existence and ‘Big Crunches’ at the end where it all implodes into the void.
Being the Beta Test Reality is far better than the sickness going on for infinity - if something’s fucked up, it’s best to do it only once instead of running it over and over in an endlessly recurring loop.
My idea is that this universe is binary, or ‘written in binary code’ for a computer-related analogy. An interplay of polar oposites. Yin and Yang, good and evil, and so on.
We define our reality through contrast, i.e. you have to know what suffering is to know what happiness is. You have to know what hot is to know what cold is.
The Buddha said that life is suffering, therefore the solution is to attain ‘nibbana’ (nirvana), which means to quench, extinguish, the flame of desire and achieve a state of consciousness where all polar opposites do not matter. Desirelessness is to prefer neither good nor evil, hot or cold, pain or pleasure, but to detach and accept everything for what it is. It is also seen as a way to leave this “sick theatre” where life is like an endless play of light and shadow and thus “To bring about the cessation of all created realities” ( referenced from Fundamentalbuddhism.com ). I think that Buddhism is a form of escapism, in that sense, and it even mentions that it is the path of escape in that link. It’s also very depressing to think that the only path is to escape because all realities are that fucked up forever.
However, I’ve come up with the concept that the new reality will not be binary, but trinary.
If you picture binary symbolically, it’s like a circle, half black, half white with two opposing faces.
Trinary is more like a triangle in symbolism - three corners that face each other but do not oppose. Therefore, instead of two poles there will be three. There will still be contrast, but instead of opposition, each pole reflects two of the other poles and does not cancel them out, but projects itself as a reflection of the other two. So it’s like three points of view that complement each other, instead of two that disagree.
And trinary can still simulate binary without being trapped forever. In trinary anything can be dissolved, recreated or simulated, any possibility - without worries of fucking up.
I don’t have a mathematical model for trinary code, but it’s a philosophical concept for a new model of reality and existence that beats the old one we are living in now.
Now you all probably think I’m a crackpot and a complete nut by now, so I’ll stop talking. But those are my views.