Computer \"reads\" memories... (Humans)

by dhw, Saturday, March 27, 2010, 15:22 (5162 days ago) @ BBella

BBELLA: What do you wish or hope the ultimate truth is? Not asking what science, proof/no proof, the intelligent or the wise of humanity believe it to be. Just considering the reality of the way things appear to you, in detail, what do you hope is ultimately taking place here in reality?-Ugh, this is a devil of a question ... though I'm sure the purpose is angelic! As a preamble, firstly I need to get rid of the word "hope", because that's too emotionally committed. I'd prefer to say what I would see as my IDEAL "ultimate truth". Is that permissible? Secondly, although I've been exceedingly lucky (so far) in my life, in my thinking I just can't ignore the terrible suffering that life has inflicted on so many others. This undoubtedly colours my wished-for UT.-There would have to be some kind of continuance (and compensation) after death. I would like to retain my identity, to be with the people I love, and continue the activities I enjoy. These would include access to literature, music, sport and chocolate, though how on Earth ... or wherever else ... this would be possible without a body, I really don't know. (Sex is another obvious victim of bodilessness.) I would like all such opportunities to be available to everyone in a sort of universal ... though not communal! ... love-in. Your idea of rest periods, and the possibility of voluntarily entering another form of life appeals to me, as it removes the burden and boredom of eternity. This would all be part of a vast fabric of life of which I remain a tiny fragment in a tiny niche, just as I am now, though that niche could expand if I wished it to. There would be no God ... just this great multidimensional universe full of beings like myself in their own niches, but without suffering, without our human vices (chocolate in moderation, folks), without hierarchies, and without competition other than games (ah, cricket!), played in perfect sporting spirit. Why no God? Because then there would be no need to explain earthly suffering, no ultimate authority ... nothing beyond the joys of life itself. It would transpire that life has gone on and will go on evolving here and elsewhere in the universe for ever, and the universe itself is a body like ours that simply continues to renew and change itself without self-awareness and without purpose. Why without purpose? Because purpose sets limits. My ideal universe has no limits apart from the exclusion of suffering. How we could possibly live on bodiless in a universe of love and no suffering without there being a God to organize it all is far, far beyond my imaginative powers, but fortunately you didn't ask me to explain the technicalities!