Emergent Reality (Part I: Life and Creativity)
I would like to share an insightful and promotional video made that is a combination of my personal thoughts and views inspired by my favourite scientists/authors as:
Seth Lloyd (author of ‘Programming the Universe’) and his views and reasoning that the universe itself is one big quantum emergent computer.
Stuart A. Kauffman (author of ‘Reinventing The Sacred’) for his insights on the nature of complexity in biological systems and the emergent nature of reality.
Richard Feynman (Physicist and pioneer of quantum computing) for his objective and fresh views on the perspectives of reality.
Robert Wright (author of ‘The Moral Animal’ and ‘Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny’) for his explanations of evolutionary psychology and game theory.
Richard Dawkins (evolutionary biologist and author) for his contribution of the idea of the meme and his beautiful education of evolution.
And of course, Carl Sagan (astrophysicist, author, and cosmologist) for his grandiose and inspiring views of nature and the universe.
The message of the video also aligns itself with the message from Peter Joseph of The Zeitgeist Movement and Jacque Fresco of The Venus Project. I plan to make a series of this style videos in the future, if you would like to help with the development of these videos please contact me and I will place you on an email list for this team.
Lastly, I would like to share a TED video of Stephen Wolfram (Creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha) talk about the central theme of the Emergent Reality videos that will be created:
Although the above pursuit does not have anything to do with the Zemerge Project directly it is the general direction and inspiration of why we should create and develop this project. I welcome everyone to share the video created and look forward to the journey ahead.
Regards,
Tom
Transcript of the Video:
Life, is diverse, is persistent, is creative, it changes and adapts, it struggles and persists, life makes its own rules, life is autonomous, self-organizing and self-driven, life cooperates and competes, in the end life has one purpose – to thrive and exist.
The molecular DNA is the recipe of organic life, its a set of instructions that molds each living being from the environment. This recipe is mixed, mutated and modified from generation to generation – each recipe is tested during the course of a lifetime, improvements to the recipe multiply it, and inefficiencies are phased out – it is the ultimate algorithm of optimal preservation strategy of self-continuity.
In the most abstract view life is an exotic form of emergent complexity which has its beginnings from quarks to atoms to molecules to biological cells. Life’s most intriguing innovation is the neural network of the brain – an evolving organ of ever increasing complexity until it reached a emerging threshold to spawn consciousness, self-awareness and abstract thought process that we are all too familiar with.
Recently these neural networks reached the shores of the next stage of emergent complexity – the emergence of the meme hive – a whole network of information existing artificially in the mass collection of the neural networks that spread, mutate, and mix each meme. Every thought, idea, symbol or practice – either spoken, written, drawn or typed – every single piece of information that ever came out from these neural networks and was transmitted to another is the meme hive. This meme hive no longer requires the organic neural network organs to persist, it can spread, mutate and mix within other mediums, this will continue to progress to a singularity of the memes, a threshold of self sustaining complexity that can be described as artificial intelligence, and perhaps in the far future it will continue to thrive and emerge into another new layer of complexity.
Peering through the meanings and concepts of existence and complexity one can only ponder the ultimate meaning of the universe at least from our viewpoint – and one theme stands out that persisted from the beginning of time to the unimaginable future – and it is emergent creativity.
So if you were to say what is your purpose in life, what is the ultimate goal and satisfaction that is pure in its essence and aligned with the universe at its every core – it is to be creative! to create ideas and mold the environment! create art, music, tools & technology and expressions … and being creative with others! to expand the meme hive and let it flourish as we are a product of this creativeness.
Unfortunately, we live in a time where the meme hive we created over generations has hijacked our ability to mature and develop as a species and may even threaten our ability to persist. Our degree of freedom to experience the vast breath of human experience largely depends on our inequality advantage, and the limited, distorted, and funnelled knowledge that we pickup from the meme hive. Life is too short to conform, to be subservient, to follow empty ideologies and artificial limits, to follow the blind consuming unwilling masses, we have infinite and unimaginable possibilities, if only we worked together to rewrite the game of the meme hive, to create a sustainable society that would allow for our total freedom of self expression without the requirement for servitude, to have unhindered cooperation to be creative on global scales, to contribute to solution projects and human endeavours that span generations and to expand our understandings of nature and its potentials. Life had a breakthrough when single cells formed cellular colonies which resulted into multi-cellular organisms, now its our time for the next breakthrough to connect and help each other on our journey along the creative emergence of complexity.
I hadn’t paid much attention to this blog up to now, I thought it was one of many Zeitgeist promo sites. But dude, you’ve broken the mould with this video. Fantastic work.
Email me, would love to work with you.