See, even not so narrow minded people from this very list understand that consciousness is non-local and more fundamental than body and brain ...
http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2015/03/paranormal-phenomena-nonlocal-mind-and.html Or Tom's book starting at page 113 ... https://books.google.at/books?id=RYHtBPiZVgsC&lpg=PA1&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q&f=false "I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness." -- Max Planck It's what Hindus, Buddhists, Sufis, native Indians, Shamans, etc. have been telling us for ages ... and Fermi's Paradox is a symptom of being ignorant to the fundamental nature of this physical reality. ... I stopped reading at "So you are saying I can stop playing Super Mario Land and navigate in the super-set of Super Mario Land?" On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 12:14 PM Giacomo Spigler via AGI < [email protected]> wrote: > > I stopped reading at "your consciousness is capable of communicating with > gazillions of other entities from outside this physical realm/plane > anytime." > > G > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 10:51 AM, just camel via AGI <[email protected] > > wrote: >> >> Fermi's Paradox ... >> >> Once upon a time, a 10 year old child became addicted to Super Mario >> Land. He played so much that he forgot that he was a child among millions >> of other children and kept asking himself "Where are all the other Marios? >> There must be many more Marios? I will call this Fermi's Paradox!" >> >> Already today thousands of advanced meditators will tell you that Fermi's >> Paradox is only a paradox as long as you don't realize that your >> consciousness is focusing on one particular and very narrow experience >> (called a human being) when your consciousness is capable of communicating >> with gazillions of other entities from outside this physical realm/plane >> anytime. >> >> When you attend a LAN-Party and play World of Warcraft and only find 5 of >> the 5000 LAN-Party participants in the game then clearly you realize that >> you are looking in the wrong spot and you shift your attention "outwards" >> and out of a subset of reality into a broader set of reality. >> >> An advanced civilization will probably cease to use manifested avatars on >> the physical plane once it has overcome the tendency to identify with >> narrow experiences. Just as children tend to overcome the tendency to >> identify with a narrow experience in the form of a computer game. The >> answer to Fermi's paradox lies in the words of Buddha, Jesus and all the >> other liberated/enlightened beings ... it lies in the realization that our >> physical reality is just an illusion within the field of consciousness ... >> it's a mix of John Smarts "transcension hypothesis" and in some sense >> Bostrom's work ... in so far that our perceived physical virtual reality is >> just a very tiny subset of a much larger reality. >> >> Physical death as well as spiritual enlightenment are singular processes >> decoupling your consciousness from one particular experience (from >> identifying with one human being) and they will introduce you to said much >> broader reality in which there exists no Fermi's paradox. >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 2:50 PM Giacomo Spigler via AGI < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T81817474dba9a838-M5fc6907de7c19a0962fb8352> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T81817474dba9a838-M10bd175212c66624852606eb Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups
