OCCAM'S SHARPENING STRAP Occam liked to follow the simplest theory first before wasting time on more complex ones. There is some complaint that the dreamball theory is more complex than the meatball theory. In truth the hybrid theory that says both the physical universe and the conscious universe are actual and are interfaced together is clearly a more complex one than either theory alone. But as for the pure meatball and dreamball theories, they are pretty much on a par with other, although the dreamball theory is richer in possibilities as it allows the virtualization of many different kinds of meatball universes. The dreamball universe is also way more desirable as it allows for eternality and time enough for love, along with virtual roller coaster rides as wild as you could ever want including the goal to seek spiritual death forever, something you can never win, but spend a long time trying to get there. The meatball theory says that consciousness is a process in the physical universe and the brain. Without the physical universe or brain, there is no consciousness. The dreamball theory says the physical universe and the brain are a process in consciousness. Without the conscious universe, there is no brain or physical universe, nor virtual renditions of them. The meatball theory says that the physical universe came first, and consciousness arose out of its complexity of parts, that consciousness is chemistry bubbling away at 98.6 Farenheit. The dreamball theory says that consciousness came first, is in fact eternal, and that (dreams of) the physical universe arose out of its simplicity. Effectively the dreamball theory gets rid of the physical universe except as illusion, and the meatball theory gets rid of consciousness except as illusion. But we do not have a symmetry because the existence of consciousness can not be questioned, perfect certainty is after all perfectly self luminous. But the existence of the physical universe can intelligently be questioned because we can only know it through renditions of its alleged likeness in our consciousness. That is like trying to prove something out there exists when all you have ever seen is a TV picture of it fed to you by an alleged video camera out there looking at the object. How do you know there is a video camera and not just a video tape playing? Worse it can be stated that it is possible to prove that it is impossible to prove the existence of the physical universe. That's a big statement, think about it. Images on a TV set do not prove the existence of anything rendered in the TV screen beyond the images so rendered. Images in consciousness do not prove the existence of anything rendered in consciousness beyond the images themselves. Thus we have proven that the existence of anything rendered on a TV screen is unprovable merely from the data on the TV screen! Just so, we can prove that the existence of anything rendered in consciousness is unprovable merely from the data in consciousness. BUT THAT IS ALL WE HAVE, WHAT WE ARE CONSCIOUS OF. Therefore the existence of the physical universe is provably unprovable. Occam's Razor said follow the simplest theory that explains all the facts. But Occam's Sharpening Strap said don't even bother to assert or follow theories that you can prove can never be proven. That's a deep one and needs some thought. Stay away from hypotheses that you can prove up front are unprovable. That doesn't mean they are wrong, it means you can't prove them even if they are right. So Occam said screw it, don't even bother with provably unprovable stuff, find something else to follow. Man has been saying for years that the ultimate truths about consciousness are unknowable. The truth is that the very existence of the physical universe is unknowable as long as we are using consciousness to know about it. Consciousness on the other hand you can know about, with perfect certainty. Now the guys who make a living chasing the provably unprovable, like Scientists of the Rock, won't like this, which is in part why no one has ever heard of Occam's Sharpening Strap. But there is it. There is nothing wrong with present day science, it gives us virtual truth about a virtual reality, but it does not give us anything about the actual truth of what creates the virtual reality. It could though, but they would have to stop looking outward, and start looking ATward, at their consciousness, perfect certainty, self luminousness, and find the connection that binds us all together as one family forever, called source or static. Homer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Homer Wilson Smith The Paths of Lovers Art Matrix - Lightlink (607) 277-0959 KC2ITF Cross Internet Access, Ithaca NY homer@lightlink.com In the Line of Duty http://www.lightlink.com Thu Jan 28 00:11:57 EST 2010