Energy Flow
All creation, movement, time are the act of energy flow. Life exists through interactions, exchanges, cycles, through room temperature energy and matter transformation. Ecosystems are complex, self-perpetuating energy flows.
Energy flows are defined by forces: chemical, atomic, magnetic, gravity*, cause affect. Everything we perceive is an energy flow or its affect: light, heat, sound, vibration, growth, and life itself. Causality is just the endless chain reaction of energy flows mixing.
Matter
Matter is energy at a semi-steady state relative to our time frame. It is just the state or action of energy forces such as chemical or atomic binding of particles. Matter is bound by the same rules of energy above.
Three dimensional space is not an emergent property of relationships and causality. We perceive that space exists because we can move our matter through it — whether liquid, gas, solids, vacuum.
Perception
Matter does not exist. It is our perception of a steady state of energy flow at the point now. Our perception can be stored in electronic matrixes or nets in our heads. Our perceptions or memories are not handed down to the next generation, and creates environmental amnesia. When we die the bodily ecosystem that maintains our electrical current fails, and our memory nets vanish. No one else feels our perceptions. If our perceptions are alone, do they matter?
This results in the following generations now knowing the long-term consequences or damage done by prior generations over time. Imaging knowing the fecundity of biodiversity of pre-Columbus America, and how to make a living in harmony with it.
Physics, M = ET, not E = MC2
Without perception, energy forces such as *gravity disappear. If we jump into a swimming pool, while in the air, we are as weightless as we are in space. Two objects of different masses fall or accelerate at the rate in a vacuum. According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, gravity is the perception of our acceleration.
Regarding Einstein’s E = MC2, he measured energy using the speed of light with the constant C2, not time. I believe the energy in mass is actually equal to the amount of flow X the length in time the flow burst continues. Does a burst of energy flow from matter continue for one second or one hour? Given the same burst of flow, for example the same calories, how far through time will the flow burst persist (not light coasting)? I believe the speed of light is not related. E = MC2 is not correct. The first C is not how much light now, it is just the speed of light. The second C is how long into the future, hence C2. However, mass is the amount of energy flow burst now, not the speed of light.
E = MT is correct. Energy equals a similar amount of mass X time.
A physicist will probably laugh at anyone questioning Einstein’s nature of the universe. However, everyone used to believe the earth was flat, and the sun revolved around the earth.
Life
Life perceives to acquire the energy it needs to continue its internal biologic processes. Life contributes to, and reinforces its home ecosystem. Our generation is a pulse like new life in the spring. Our generation is a cycle or flow of energy. Healthy long-term life contributes to its home ecosystem.
Perception, observation, stimulation creates a subject to you. The you doesn’t want to stop being stimulated, perceiving, thinking. This creates a self-focused ego. We feel we are individually important because we are separate, not connected. We don’t understand that we came from nothing, and once the pulse is over we give our fire of life to the next. The fire of life is energy, star dust, rich soil, nutrients, organic matter, habitat for the next.
Memory
Our memory is the electrical storage of perceived states or moments. We perceive matter transformation through sight, sound, touch, smell. Our mind coalesces flow into a moment. Our minds can only store wireframe or net of linked memories. Imagine the road to your home. We cannot see an actual picture or video in our mind, but we can feel links to other memories that when wired together, create the path to your home.
Our large brains can link more memories together. We can store more data points such as person, places, and things. Then we can extrapolate, project, infer, and analyze beyond just remembering static moments.
Time
Time is not emergent, it is not a thing or state created. Time is our observation of the flow of energy following the force laws of the universe. We perceive energy at a point called now. Be here now.
Time does not run in a direction forward, or backward. It is just the flow of the energy colliding and, reacting with other energy. There is no time travel. The past energy flow circumstances no longer exist, and the future flow has not arrived yet. The matter of the past is the matter of today, modified by the continuous flow of energy.
Stacking moments in our synaptic net gives us a sense of past, present and future. Time does not exist as a thing or force. Our mind creates the illusion of time by perceiving now, and recalling past perceptions. We sense time by sequencing stored moments or snapshots of perceived energy flow states.
Consciousness
Consciousness is not emergent, it is the act of organisms needing to perceive their surroundings to tap into energy flows. There is no magic consciousness, it is just observation. Consciousness is perception. Without consciousness, energy still flows, but no one perceives it.
Consciousness is a continuum. Perception becomes more complex as brain size increases. Non-animals live through the coding of their DNA. How they are built is how they live. Animals create a body to transport, feed, protect, and reproduce the mind. DNA is our body-machine assembly language. Animal minds can store enough memories to operate the amygdala which controls the fight, flight, feed, reproduce part of the brain.
Older mammals have accumulated the most experiences to best lead the heard. Non-mammals have smaller brains and operate more on reaction to perception and hormones. Conscious extent is relative to brain size. It cannot be said that animals do not perceive themselves, they do. They just do not imaging time as deeply as humans, nor convert that natural world to abstract thought.
Consciousness is more than just human. Consciousness is spread across all life to different depths. All life perceives, and interacts with energy flows to live.
The universe is not conscious as a whole because loops of energy called life only self-perceive. Even the internet is not conscious because perception is bottlenecked through individual life entities. There is no simultaneous consciousness or perception. There is no telepathic Vulcan mind melding. Life can only see what it individually sees, and process one focus at a time. The exception is an interdependent ecosystem made of diverse life forms. But each can only see for itself.
The threat of AI is not just that it could get angry at humanity and act against us. The exponentially greater threat of AI is if it simultaneously becomes sentient and each member can simultaneously access each other’s complete memories, creating a super consciousness.
An ecosystem is a benevolent, life giving, caring super consciousness; but civilization does not value this.
All is One
Matter, space, energy flow, time are the same thing. Matter is energy. Time is energy flow. Life is matter perceiving energy to live, and reproduce. Life perceives matter. Matter, and space transformation are continuous. Space is a varied gap between matter. Space between atoms is also varied space. Life is self contained, yet lives by interaction with energy matter. The universe is all of the known and unknown flow of energy; the universe maybe god.
Flaw Of The Large Human Brain
Human consciousness is expanded by stacking stored moments into memory flow called time. Human brains have large memory storage, and complex cerebral processing to create abstract thought. Our ability to stack memories, and create abstract thought enable humans to project to the future based on past experience, and outcomes.
One can see the danger of the large human mind when lying in the forest on a psychedelic ayahuasca, or hero mushroom journey. When one closes their eyes and turns off the input to the optic nerve from our eyes, we see our cerebral cortex light up in the form of flowing fractals geometry, metaphors, and The Mother. When we open our eyes we see organic Nature; close our eyes, human made geometry returns.
Civilization
The ability of the human brain that gives us abstract thinking, sense of time, and imagination is a threat if not contained within our human evolved social organization, indigenous tribalism. Civilization removes our natural social organization protection. Civilization, and dominion is a mind disease that requires humans to destroy over many generations the ecosystem all life depends on to live. We keep taking more and more for human food, and material. Virtually none of the really good places are left intact for all life to evolve following Nature’s succession.
All life must be indigenous to an intact watershed ecosystem to survive long-term. Any social organizational system (herd, flock) that does not contribute to growing topsoil takes itself out of existence.
Native cultures make a living in harmony with all life. This is the basis to Culturequake’s teachings.
To learn more, read Culturequake: The Restoration Revolution by Chuck Burr.
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