What is “The Point”, anyway?
The Ego
It’s important to define what I mean by “The Ego”.
if you’ve read The 6 States of Being, we are still left with a question - if there is no experiencer, why does it appear like there is?
The Ego is the thing that separates you from the rest of the universe. It is generated inside of your brain. It is emergent and not inherent.
Science shows us that there is no separation. Everything is made of atoms, which themselves are made of subatomic particles, which themselves are just fluctuations in omnipresent quantum fields.
Atoms aren’t different from each other, they only represent a different arrangement.
For example, the difference between an Iron and Oxygen atom is just the number of protons, neutrons and electrons. The components are exactly the same. Our reality is more of an arrangement than anything distinct.
Illusion of Separation
We also recognize that the difference between “us” (our living body) and something we touch, isn’t scientifically distinct. They are all also just atoms.
The atoms that make up our “living” body are exactly the same as the atoms that make up our “dead” surroundings. There is no difference between the two.
So why do we feel like there is? Why can I control these ones, and not those ones?
Hot Tip
You can try controlling those ones with these ones.
Big and Small
The fulcrum explains what the ego itself is.
Reference
This realization takes into account an understanding of both the dimensions and the mathematical principle of Inverse Percentages.
Since we accept that time is a dimension like space, and we understand that 0 to 1 is the same as 1 to ∞ (info), we arrive at an unintuitive reduction as to what we are.
Let’s examine the relationship between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
Zooming Out
Let’s visualize zooming outwards exponentially.
We zoom out, and out. first we see our city, then our country.The earth, the solar system. our galaxy, out and out, until you see the entire observable universe.
The observable part of the universe is 93 billion lightyears across.
But you can go the other way as well, down to zero.
Zooming In
Imagine zooming in on yourself. You see strands of hair, then the cells that make them up. Bacteria, proteins, molecules, DNA.
Keep going and you’ll see atoms, and the quarks and subatomic particles that make them up.
All the way down until you reach the Planck Length, the smallest divisible distance in our universe.
The Planck Length is 1.616×10^−35 meters
Now we have an interesting relationship to compare. We have the largest length and the smallest length in our universe.
What is exactly between these two lengths? The midpoint?
The Fulcrum
Smack dab in the middle is.. us.
What I mean is, the scale that we experience things at.
Now, the exact length is 12 hundredths of a millimeter, or about the size of a neuron.
This could imply one of 2 things:
- Neurons are the generator of the ego, and it gets stronger through emergent effect.
- This may explain why self identity in animals seems to be linked to brain size
- One of our measurements is wrong
- The smallest thing is a bit smaller than the biggest thing is big.. or is it?
- Remember that the size of the observable universe it not the total size of the unobservable universe. It is just a boundary where the space between us is accelerating faster than the light from that thing can travel towards us. There is expected to be plenty of stuff beyond this “edge”.
It’s neat to imagine that to calculate the current size of the unobservable universe, it could possibly be derived from the current scale of experience and the planck length - scaled upwards to the top.
The Current State
Since the universe is an evolving system, it is expressed in many different states.
Also, since we know time is a dimension, that means multiple states can exist at the same point in time.
We arrive at this final conclusion:
“You”, the experiencer, are the current state of the entire system at it’s fulcrum. The point at the center of inward and outward.
This necessitates a Big Bang, where the smallest and largest were the same size. This is needed for the first state to exist, since it is always the midpoint.
Instead of a scale, we can visualize the inward being a reflection of the outward, as see how we are directly at the convergence, or the focal point.
This also implies that every other observer, in the entire universe at all points in time, from the smallest thing to the largest, is also this convergence, just a different state of the system.
It’s not that we are at the center of the system, it’s that it has no center, no separation at all. It just is what it is in it’s current state, experienced at the focal point.
“You”, the experiencer, the thing that feels separate, is actually “Your ego”.
This is the focal point of You, the experience, the entire system.