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Superobservers and Superdreamers

Metacivilizations and the Auyang's Desert


"The illusion of a thinking subject arises from confusing the unity of consciousness with the consciousness of a unity."

"Man leaves the city lights behind and drives into the desert. There he lifts his eyes and looks into the depth of time. He sees in the constellation Andromeda a faint patch that is the spiral galaxy closest to us, our neighbor two million light years away. The light he sees left the Andromeda Galaxy when his ancestor, Homo, first walked on earth. Man is not satisfied with what he sees with his naked eye. He builds telescopes, radio antennas, and other detectors to scan the firmament in various frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum. Radio astronomy lifts the sky's veil of tranquility and reveals it to be a place of violent activities: galactic collisions, supernova explosions, cosmic jets bursting with energies equivalent to converting the mass of a million suns. The heaven reveals itself to be vast and mighty, but blind and indifferent. It has absolutely no regard for Man's hopes and longings, and will in its own time reduce him and all his achievements to void."

"To obtain the solution corresponding to the present universe, the initial state from which the universe evolved must be specified to incredible precision, something only an E-civilization can do"



"Suppose we want to understand a person. We have ample techniques to dissect him, reduce him to organs, tissues, cells, molecules, and atoms. If we did these, we could publish papers that may be valuable in their own right, but we would end up knowing very little about the person. He was killed by the first cut at the throat."

"A superobserver can never be found in the content of observations, and it vanishes if all contents are removed. This is the fundamental nature of superobservers: that they cannot be observed. From this it follows that the maximum number of superobservers is just one."

"The view is always bounded by a horizon. The observed is a formal distinction that signifies the horizon of knowledge, but you need to know that you can never step out of your horizon to attain God's position. This is so by design."

"Being true or false is the feature of the content of a physical theory, not a part of the content. Being virtual or real is also a feature of the content of your consciousness, and it has nothing to do with Reality. Dreams are as real as the dreamers themselves. And you can dream of a dreamer who dreams Reality... It is not that there is a dream within a dream, it is about a dreamer within a superdreamer."



"This realm can only be penetrated in dreams. But in dreamland all of your physics ceases to exist, and no observation is possible. Look, you cannot ever know about an E-civilization; you can dream of it, at most"

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