originally posted by: Direnei
a reply to: fireslinger369
War is coming.
War never stopped in my lifetime, but there will certainly be an escalation barring some cascade of improbable events in the near future. In the last
gasps of every sufficiently powerful fiat puppet government there's always war. The Ponzi always collapses in the end. If we're destined for a pivot
of our rotationsl axis then I expect there will be an increase in natural disasters leading up to it as well. I believe it's all already started, but
isn't really visible to those living it in real time.
A question, before the gears of ATS finally grind to a halt. I'm going to miss the opportunity to occasionally discuss something interesting when it
finally goes dark. A caveat to this question is that I recognize that the parties in question may object to participating, but that's not terribly
important for the purposes of discussing the possibility.
Briefly, three assumptions based on articles and discussion here. It's not necessarily my position, just what I can gather from the material.
The QM involves a universe scale particle accelerator, neutrino detectors, and possibly could be used to open closed timelike curves by stabilizing a
wormhole at or below the Cauchy horizon.
Sending physical matter through a CTC isn't possible, but sending consciousness is. There seems to be one or two cases where it's suggested a probe
could be sent, but that's not entirely clear to me and contradicts most other material.
Sending consciousness results in substantial memory loss, which seems to be uniformly acknowledged in FL articles. This is with the exception of
consciousness moved forward through time using stasis and artificial dreams to prevent entropic psychosis. I don't know why that wouldn't work in
reverse moving backwards through time, but I don't believe it's been discussed in any of the English portions of the FL catalogue.
Presumably, this injection of consciousness into the past would have two potential results. Either the consciousness sent does a round trip -or-
another consciousness is displaced from the target time and does the return trip in its place. I see no alternative because without receiving a
consciousness back at the entry point it would seem you could never know that your CTC worked. There are caveats here because I'm obviously missing
whatever scientific discoveries occur between now and that future date.
There's also Sufism and other forms of soul alchemy discussed on FL. My understanding of soul alchemy and Sufism specifically, at a level not overtly
discussed in the articles or in most text, is that the goal is to enable a practitioner to access and create a persistent memory complex outside the
physical body. There seems to be some element of that at the bottom (or top) of all esoteric traditions. This is based on a great deal of material not
found directly in FL articles, but seems consistent with the portions of FL I'm able to read.
It would seem if humans are involved in the development of a QM or precursor technology, that highly skilled practitioners of soul alchemy would be a
valuable part of the teams working with the technology. Ideally, they'd have both the science background to understand the technical portions and the
spiritual discipline to understand the metaphysical portions.
I'd think that when a Sufi master (or equivalent) creates their own cloud, that cloud isn't part of the linear timeline in which it's created. It's
just a construct of the mind (not the brain) and, like consciousness, it lacks physical properties. Having no physical properties and not existing in
the physical universe, it would seem to be exempt from most rules of time. Even from a purely materialist view, deep altered states and dream states
can cause significant alteration in perception of time.
I know that fractal consciousness would mean that all distinction between one consciousness and another is merely an illusion, but soul alchemy
suggests practitioners can carve out a place that helps hold that illusion together. I've seen enough data and had enough experiences to believe that
consciousness can exist outside the body, even in the event of physical expiration, so this carved out space would seem to be a possibility. Not easy
to achieve, no guarantees even with a lifetime pursuit, but possible.
That would seem to make them ideal participants in research involving time displacement. Not necessarily having immediate mastery of it, but valuable
for their insight and capable of rapidly adapting to overcome adverse consequences. I never see the two topics really overlap, though they cohabitate
on the site.
There just seems to be no overt crossover of the esoteric mastery and technological mastery, aside from what the reader might deduce. The
intersection, if there is one, is limited to where they are connected via some artistic medium. It's an abstract intersection for the most part. All
the discussion about test subjects seems to revolve around broken shells of human beings used beyond their capacity.
Is there a reason why there is no consideration of using skilled spiritualist practitioners? Why wouldn't a skilled practitioner of some esoteric
tradition be an optimal choice for piloting a consciousness-driven craft? Why wouldn't they be best suited for experiments with XViS and passing data
through whatever brane alternate universe's pseudo-photons can penetrate? Willingness of the participant would seem to be a barrier, but that doesn't
prevent speculation.
Is there exploration of this? If not, why not? Wouldn't a skilled practitioner be an ideal candidate for whatever transhumanist, biomechanical, or
trans-temporal experimenting was going to advance science? Wouldn't the fusion of consciousness with electronic/machine technology just be the modern
equivalent of the magnum opus, a philosopher's stone, or whatever other names it may be called?
A sort of side question. If we were to create a vessel capable of holding consciousness, particularly if that vessel was equipped with tools to
perceive and manipulate the physical world, wouldn't that be a primary target for a traveler from some QM capable future or even some other energetic
consciousness field? I know it's been the subject of sci-fi and horror fiction, but would seem to be a real potential if the technology advanced to
that point.