We created the concept of space to put distance between ourselves and everything around us. If there is no space, there is no separation. There is only one giant universe. A gigantic all encompassing wholeness.
We created the concept of time to prevent everything from happening at once. If there is no time, there is no separation between moments. There is only the eternal now.
We created the concept of causation because of fear. There is nothing more terrifying than an arbitrary universe. But all we really have is data and information. We have the data that when the bat strikes the ball, the ball will change directions. But only data. We don't actually know that the billionth time the event occurs what is going to happen. So we invent causality which is an inference created from the data. Scientific induction. In this way, we cannot describe with science what actually is. That lies in the domain of aesthetics. All we can see is patterns supplied by data. What "is" is fundamentally unknowable.
We created the concept of the self because we don't really pay attention. Did you ever notice that there is so much more information coming from your thoughts that what is actually happening in the world that is not your thoughts? If we look, what we think of as the self is in an unending process of condensation and evaporation of thoughts, images and sounds. In this way, the self, like causation, is nothing more that ephemeral patterns of data.
We created the concept of causation because of fear. There is nothing more terrifying than an arbitrary universe. But all we really have is data and information. We have the data that when the bat strikes the ball, the ball will change directions. But only data. We don't actually know that the billionth time the event occurs what is going to happen. So we invent causality which is an inference created from the data. Scientific induction. In this way, we cannot describe with science what actually is. That lies in the domain of aesthetics. All we can see is patterns supplied by data. What "is" is fundamentally unknowable.
We created the concept of the self because we don't really pay attention. Did you ever notice that there is so much more information coming from your thoughts that what is actually happening in the world that is not your thoughts? If we look, what we think of as the self is in an unending process of condensation and evaporation of thoughts, images and sounds. In this way, the self, like causation, is nothing more that ephemeral patterns of data.
When the concepts of space, time, causation, and self start to bleed over, interesting things happen. I just saw a herd of triceratops in my backyard. They were grazing on trees and I felt both the nourishment going in and the loss of me being consumed by me. Anything is possible in a world without space, time, causation, and self. Indeed, what is possible is only an inquiry into causation and data. You are already there--go ahead and touch them--they don't bite.
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