EVOLUTION, PRESERVATION AND DESTRUCTION OF WORLDS. 54
PRECAUTIONS FOR WORLD CREATORS. 56
PERFECT WORLDS. 57
CONCEPT OF IDEAL WORLDS. 57
INHABITANTS OF PERFECT WORLDS. 60
COSMOLOGY OF PERFECT WORLDS. 62
UNIDEAL WORLDS. 64
CHAOTIC WORLDS. 65
PRIMITIVE WORLDS. 65
PAGAN WORLDS. 65
DOGMATIC WORLDS. 66
DESPOTIC WORLDS. 66
TRAGIC WORLDS. 66
RACIAL, CAST AND CLASS WORLDS. 66
HEROIC WORLDS. 66
SCIENTIFIC WORLDS. 67
ASCETICAL WORLDS. 67
HEDONIC AND MERCANTYAL WORLDS. 67
COMIC WORLDS. 67
INFANTILE WORLDS. 68
EROTIC WORLDS. 68
IDIOTIC WORLDS. 68
Nightmare Worlds. 68
GUIDE TO INDEPENDENT CREATION.. 69
REFERENCES. 70
WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT?
Each of us, to one degree or another, has an imagination. We are able to imagine, depict or create something non-existent in reality. Moreover, using the latest programming tools, a person can create any virtual worlds, populating them with inhabitants, who may well consider their world as real. We are approaching the creation of artificial intelligence and will be able to provide them with the inhabitants of virtual worlds.
Then the question arises, isn"t our world such a simulation?
This does not contradict the conviction that a certain creator put together our world, or theories that believe that our world spontaneously originated and evolves on its own. Both scenarios do not deny that the true basis of our world can be in a completely different world that has a fundamentally different nature.
Observing our ability to create virtual worlds, we can assume that such a complex world in which we live is the result of a meaningful creation, because the spontaneous generation of our world seems much less likely, although such a hypothesis has a right to exist, because as soon as our world exists, that probabilistic approach, alas, does not make sense.
However, delving into cosmology, quantum physics, molecular biology, genetics, science comes to the realization that the world has a certain basis or source behind it.
Modern scientists find more and more bases for such assumptions.
This book is about the fact that the world in which we live is not the only possible one. And the "reality" of our world is not absolute. After humanity in practice became acquainted with the concept of virtual reality, it became obvious that worlds can be any. At the same time, what the other world could be is unlimited.
The laws of physics and morality of our world are inherent only in our human perception of this world. They do not dictate what the world should be like, but only are our attempt at knowing and understanding it.
Worlds are above all as they are intended. But the laws of physics, morality, philosophy and any knowledge inside these worlds are secondary and only try to describe the arbitrary act of creation of a certain world.
The only limitation is that it is impossible to prove the existence of a certain basic reality, an absolutely real world, on the basis of which other worlds are created. Consequently, no creator can prove that he himself is not the creation of another world, and that his own world, in turn, is not the result of creation.
Moreover, one can imagine a closed chain of worlds that create each other: that is, a world that seems to be basic, is the result of the creation of one of the worlds in turn created by him.
This book raises questions why our world is such, and not different, showing a lot of opportunities to create other worlds, in some ways similar, and in some things fundamentally different from ours. The book offers the highest moral law of the creators - not to create imperfect worlds, painful for their inhabitants.
WHY TO INVENT WORLDS?
What is the Universe?
The new science of the creation (invention) of the worlds can be called cosmoinventology, from the Greek word "cosmos" for the world, and the Latin word for "invention".
Based on our experience, sensation and acquired knowledge, the world is that within which we exist. That is what encompasses us and at the same time extends beyond our limits. We comprehend the world with the help of the sense organs, sometimes equipped with instruments, but always remaining the final authority and instrument of our perception, and hence the formation of the idea of reality [1].
Mentally, the world can be viewed from three points of view - our natural point of view, the inhabitant of this world (subjective reality), some objective observer in our world (objective reality) and an outside observer who is outside our universe. The latter point of view is purely speculative, for it is not verifiable, since our universe does not allow us to observe ourselves from without. In general, the possibility of such observation is doubtful, but it is quite acceptable as a mental exercise. Moreover, it is not at all important to consider our creation as the result of an act of creation or spontaneous generation and development. The difference of approaches does not affect the possibility of the existence of these three points of view. Although, of course, the very concept of the universe arises here as a result of believe in the creative process of a certain creator or meaningful creative power.
Realization is characterized by the reconstruction of reality in our consciousness and only then its analysis. One way or another, we can claim that the very process of our perception and analysis of reality consists in recreating it in our consciousness, and therefore we, whether we like it or not, recreate the world in ourselves. That is, our consciousness creates a certain world, which, we believe, corresponds to the real world.
For simplicity, take a photo. By taking a picture of a broken tree and showing a picture to another person, we allow him to come to the correct conclusion that the tree was broken, without directly watching the real tree. That is, we recreate the image of the tree in the figure, and this image may or may not have a prototype in reality. Moreover, the pattern in both cases will be the same. A person reviewing our drawing will not be able to reliably state whether the tree actually depicted by us exists or it is a figment of our imagination.
Since ancient times, such an act of recreation was drawing. So, cave paintings carry certain information about animals affected by spears. We can recreate the images of these animals in our minds and make a correct conclusion that somehow an animal existed that was hit by an object called a spear.
So, by sketching or photographing, we recreate the world, and based on this image, our senses (in this case, vision) recreate this image in our mind and allow us to analyze it. Moreover, at a certain moment it becomes completely irrelevant whether there is a broken tree or a dead beast in reality, our perception and analysis will take place in exactly the same way.
That is, we, in our own way, create certain elements of the world, transferring their mapping (or imagining them) to paper.
Here we can assert that under certain conditions our consciousness (subjective) and even the consciousness of many observers (objective) will not be able to determine from the drawing (except for indirect signs not related to this example) whether this image actually had a prototype or not.
Man is a creative being, because creation is peculiar to consciousness. So, any object of the universe tends to participate in the changes. This object can be passive or active, conscious or not. One way or another, the creative act depends not on the creator, but on the viewer, the observer, capable of awareness. Thus, such an inanimate phenomenon as the formation of clouds or frost on the glass can create images that will be understood in our consciousness, and then we will become co-creators of these images. And here it is important to emphasize that it is the creator of the image that is not only us, but also an unconscious material phenomenon. Without this basis, creating something that has not existed until now (clouds or frost), we would not have the impetus and the basis for the awareness and creation of some kind of meaningful image. That is even an object or process, completely unrelated to life, has an inevitable creative impulse. On the other hand, even the most ingenious work of the artist is not creativity in the absence of the viewer. Without an observer, his canvas is just a piece of matter with chemical compositions applied to it, because there is no one to perceive and realize them in the form of paints, and even less images.
So, the main and only co-creator of our universe is our consciousness. We are constantly in the process of creation, or at least we are co-creators of the universe, and if the presence of the Creator is subject to numerous doubts, then our role as co-creators is completely obvious. In this case, we are even more creators than the Creator himself, because without our understanding the world has no meaning. The world becomes a world only when there is a witness to it. Our own meaningful and conscious existence does not cause us any doubt, thanks to the assertion of Descartes that if we think, then we exist [2]. So the process of reflection is equated with the process of existence.
Putting ourselves in the place of the creator, we can better understand our world. As N. Karamzin wrote: "I think it would be better to observe the great universe as it is, and, as far as it is available to our eyes, look at how everything happens there, rather than think about how everything could happen there, and this often happens with our philosophers ... "[3] However, mentally taking the place of the Creator of our world, we can try to imagine what motives He could have been guided by, creating the world in this way and not otherwise. Again, imagine a certain megalith [4] standing in the middle of a field. It can be considered in two ways, as a stone lump randomly brought by the glacier, or as a man-made object, or at least an object processed by human hands, built on the basis of certain motives. In the first case, thinking about motivation is meaningless, because, however unlikely it may be, the artifact was formed by chance, in the second everything is much more complicated, because by artifact we have to judge the motives of those who created it. If it is still possible to assume that a single megalith could be brought by a glacier, and then such a structure as Stonehenge [5] could not be formed naturally, in any case, the probability is minimal.
What can be said about the complexity and non-randomness of the universe we observe? Assuming that it was created, we need to reflect on the motives of the creator.
Comparing our capabilities to create any worlds in our imagination, to embody them on paper, and even in the form of computer simulations, we can easily assume that the Creator of our world had no limitations, and that the world was created in such a way and not otherwise. to lead us to think about what our Creator is, what are his personal preferences expressed in his creation.
Considering the world as the result of a meaningful creation, we can overcome the illusion of the inevitability of the structure of our world, as the only possible one.
In our time, the opportunity has arisen to create virtual worlds, which their inhabitants can perceive as real worlds. We are experiencing a unique moment of history, when our awareness of the universe has expanded so much that we can create our own, completely different and not going to our virtual worlds. This possibility, in general, has always been, for our imagination does not need any aids to create its own worlds. But our acquaintance with the possibility of creating virtual worlds that exist separately from our imagination has given the modern philosopher a new direction of thought, in which he can move further than his predecessors. Thus, by modeling other worlds, for example, as computer simulations, we can put in them inhabitants, which in turn can be equipped with self-awareness (more on this will be discussed below). And this is no longer just a fantasy. It is, in fact, the creation of a full-fledged world, indistinguishable in the mind of its inhabitant from the present, the real, the only one.
Creation as an Illusion
This inevitably suggests that our Universe is a giant computer simulation. Are we real? What about each of us personally?
If the Creator does not wish to inform us about this, then, being in the world created by him, we cannot assert whether he is a final and absolute reality, or has a completely different basis, which is beyond the limits of our world and our awareness. So the hunter painted in the picture, becoming self-conscious, could not establish that he is a brushstroke of paint on canvas in our world. He would feel like a hunter in the forest, and he would perceive himself and the forest around him as a reality. He had no way to conclude that he was just the hero of the picture.
Previously, similar questions were asked only by philosophers. Scientists tried to understand what our so-called "real" world is and explain its laws.
But recent considerations regarding the structure of the Universe pose existential questions to science. Modern physicists, cosmologists and experts in the field of artificial intelligence suspect that we all live inside a giant computer simulation, taking the virtual world as reality. [6]
In order not to be subjected to a flurry of criticism, we can allow this state of affairs as a mental experiment. Let"s say our world is a kind of virtual simulation. This idea contradicts our feelings: after all, the world is too realistic to be a simulation. The severity of the glass in hand, the taste of tea poured into it, the sounds around us - how can you fake such a wealth of sensations?
But let"s take into account the progress in computer and information technologies in recent years. Modern video games are populated by characters that interact realistically with the player, and virtual reality simulators sometimes make it indistinguishable from the world outside the window. It is necessary to create a program not for the game, but as a scientific experiment in which every inhabitant will be provided with a subprogram simulating our consciousness, albeit in a simplified form, and in principle, such a world will turn from virtual to full and real in terms of perception and awareness of this subprogram beater.
In the fantastic movie "The Matrix" this idea is formulated very clearly. People there are enclosed in a virtual world that is unconditionally perceived as real. But if people are replaced by subprograms, then no material biological creatures will be needed.
And "The Matrix" is not the first film exploring the phenomenon of an artificial universe. All these dystopias raise two questions: how do you know that we live in a virtual world, and is it really important?
The version that we live inside the simulation has powerful supporters. As American entrepreneur Ilon Mask said in June 2016, the likelihood that our world is a virtual simulation is very high, at least "billion to one".
A technical director of Google in the field of artificial intelligence, Raymond Kurzweil suggests that, perhaps, "our entire Universe is a scientific experiment of a younger pupil from another universe."
Some physicists are ready to consider this possibility. In April 2016, scientists took part in a discussion of this topic at the New York American Museum of Natural History.
Cosmologist Alan Guth [7] from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that the Universe can be real, but at the same time it is a laboratory experiment. According to his hypothesis, our world was created by some supermind - just as biologists grow up colonies of microorganisms.
In principle, there is nothing that would exclude the possibility of creating a universe as a result of an artificial Big Bang, says Gut.
The universe in which such an experiment would have been conducted would have remained unharmed and unharmed. A new world would form in a separate space-time bubble, which would quickly separate from the maternal universe and lose contact with it.
This scenario does not affect our lives. Even if the Universe originated in the "tube" of the supermind, physically it is as real as if it were formed naturally.
But there is a second scenario that attracts particular interest, since it undermines the very foundations of our understanding of reality.
It is not excluded that our Universe was created artificially. But by whom? Musk and other supporters of this hypothesis claim that we are entirely simulated creatures - just streams of information in a giant computer, like video game characters.
Even our brain is a simulation that responds to artificial stimuli.
In this scenario, there is no matrix from which to get out: our whole life is a matrix, beyond which existence is simply impossible.
But why should we believe in such an intricate version of our own existence?
The answer is very simple: humanity is already able to simulate reality, and with the further development of technology, it will ultimately be able to create a perfect simulation inhabited by intelligent beings-agents that would perceive it as an absolutely real world.
We create computer simulations not only for games, but also for research purposes. Scientists mimic various situations of interaction at various levels - from subatomic particles to human communities, galaxies and even universes.
The invention of worlds helps overcome disappointment in our world.
In fact, we can say that we do not live in the real world anyway. The consciousness of each of us creates its own world, its own corridor of reality. Periodically, these corridors coincide, which allows meaningful communication. We also build worlds in a dream, if not consciously. Many know the feeling of relief or disappointment at the moment of awakening, depending on what dream we had.
That is, awareness of the possibility of the existence of parallel existing worlds, and at the same time, awareness of not the finality and not quite the reality of our world, can have a therapeutic effect of relieving tension from our psyche.
The possibility of mutual creation of worlds
In addition to parallel existing worlds, we can imagine that the inhabitants of one world create other worlds, whose inhabitants, in turn, create the worlds of those who create their worlds. A certain chain of mutual creation. We will discuss this below.
DEFINITION OF WORLDS
A world is a closed system [8], within which is placed an observer with consciousness [9], which is part of this system and is not able to go beyond its limits. A world without an inner inhabitant / observer / agent is meaningless and is not a world.
The creator of the world has complete control over the world and all its inhabitants, establishes the laws and principles on which the world exists.
In order to save the efforts and resources of the creator of the world, the construction of the world begins with the observer, that is, as he turns his attention to certain elements of the world, they are created and reflected in his consciousness, while when they are not under observation, then exist. That is, everything in the world appears ad hoc [10], as needed. From the beginning, an observer is created, and the world is built around him, as he turns his attention to one or another element of the world. In this case, the only one who exists constantly is the observer. The rest is created and arises only as needed. At the same time, observers create a complete sense of constancy and reality of the world around them.
An example of such a state of affairs can be quantum mechanics and its connection with the consciousness of the observer in our world. The effect of the observer in quantum physics is often viewed as the most shocking and interesting aspect of quantum physics. The outcome of a particular action - reduction or collapse of the wave function - is suspended during observation. This suggests that the human mind can physically influence the experiment. Electrons cease to exhibit their wave properties, unstable particles freeze in their decay [11]: Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon when pairs or groups of particles that were in contact with each other maintain communication with each other at large distances. When one of the particles is observed, the corresponding changes are instantly observed in the other particle. Under the all-powerful eye of the observer, the world is changing.
The effect of the observer [12] (the consciousness of the observer) is a group of hypotheses about the possible influence of the observer on elementary particles. This effect goes back to the ideas of the creators of quantum mechanics and is a consequence of the problem of measuring quantum effects. Some scientists equate the observer with the human consciousness. So Werner Heisenberg in the book "Physics and Philosophy" mentions a subjective observer. Hugh Everett writes in his scientific article "The formulation of quantum mechanics through correlated states" about a conscious observer. Wolfgang Pauli and Eugene Wigner came to the conclusion that quantum mechanics, which includes the mind of an observer, may not be compatible with materialism. Realizing that this may lead to a scientific explanation of religious concepts, John Wheeler states: "Observers are needed to bring the universe into being." Other scholars such as Albert Einstein, David Bom, Amit Goswami, Roger Penrose, and Fred Alan Wolf were also interested in similar ideas.
One way or another, the created worlds do not have to be material in our understanding, for our world, with deep study, turns out to be highly illusory.
WHO CAN CREATE WORLDS?
The fact is that it is not necessary to be God in order to create the world. It is enough to possess the properties of God in relation to the created world, and this is quite simple.
Sitting in front of a blank sheet, you have complete freedom of creativity and you can depict on it everything that you want, you can destroy your drawing, you can redo it, that is, you have all the attributes of God in relation to the observer you placed in the drawing, if he possessed consciousness. From the point of view of this observer, you will correspond to the concept of the absolute. Absolute (Latin absolutus - unconditional, unlimited, irrelevant, perfect) is the first principle of the world, the origin of all things, eternal and unchanging, which is understood to be one, universal, beginningless, endless and in turn opposed to any relative and conditioned being. [13] The same is true for a programmer who creates a program in which subroutines are placed that correspond to an observer inside the world. For him, the programmer has the properties of God. Indeed, such an observer will not be able to reliably say whether the creator of his world exists or not, will not be able to see and know him, without the will of the creator of his world. The creator of his world will be out of the world, but at the same time will be omnipotent in relation to this world, he will be the one who creates this world and sets its laws, he will be omnipotent, all-knowing, all-seeing, timeless.