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Matters of the Mind


 Whether God created Man or Man created God, we are all tiny specks of matter with infinite possibilities.

The most futuristic prediction ( or the most interesting sci-fi, depending on your orientation on theism)  that the human race has made is that of the concept of God, a superpower that creates and maybe controls everything.  Man imagined and believed in a power that can create something in its own form.  And then civilizations later, he went ahead and actually did it.
At one point if humans get wiped out, one can imagine a world of self-thinking bots contemplating and debating if they believe in the humans that created them or in the machine learning algorithms(like evolution) that created itself and made it better or both. And it would just be like the great God debate of today.

         It has been suggested in a few studies that consciousness originally developed in a social context to construct meaningful models of other people’s minds in order to predict their behaviors.
Dr V S Ramachandran, (a neuroscientist, known for his famous Mirror Box for curing Phantom limb pains) says the mirroring nature of  neurons helps one do an internal virtual reality simulation. He also calls them  Empathy neurons or Dalai Lama neurons as they dissolve the barrier between self and others. And this was not just metaphorically coined, it is said that the neuron does not know the difference between self and others when fired. This sounds very much like the NonDuality (Advaita) theory-“Everything is a part of and made of one non-dual consciousness”
This also points to the recursive nature of creation with the advances that humans are making in
creating simulations and experiences that feel "real".


       I was, at one point, hooked on to the futuristic AI series based on Michael Crichton's creation, West World. What hit me most in this is how it ultimately connects science to the spiritual.
It helps one realize how small he is ( despite being humans and not bots) in the bigger scheme of things, provided one exists.


       You could believe in a superpower called God and in its manifestations or you  could believe that God is the ultimate collective brain power or simply as the best that self and everyone else can collectively be. Whatever it may be, there is this irresistible recursiveness of mind that makes it conscious to be able to create or fathom the idea of God.




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