diff --git a/articles/my-theory-of-everything/index.md b/articles/my-theory-of-everything/index.md index 2452476..921f618 100644 --- a/articles/my-theory-of-everything/index.md +++ b/articles/my-theory-of-everything/index.md @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ tags: Before anything else, it needs to be said plainly: it is *crazy* that anything is real. Strip away every assumption, every habit of thought, and look at the raw fact — there is something. There is consciousness. We are here. That fact should never stop being shocking. -![Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog](https://free.direct-img.link/wanderer+above+the+sea+of+fog?i=1) +![A lone figure on a cliff above an endless coastline](https://free.direct-img.link/person+on+cliff+edge?i=8) And when you narrow life and everything down to its core, you arrive at exactly two questions: @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Reality must meet *all* conditions. Not some conditions. Not the conditions we f This is the move most people can't make, and it's the reason the question feels impossible. We assume it's *either* 0 *or* 1. Either something exists or nothing does. But that's a false fork. It can be — and is — that **0 and 1 are true at the same time.** -![The Library of Congress reading room](https://free.direct-img.link/library+of+congress+reading+room?i=2) +![Endless sand dunes](https://free.direct-img.link/desert+dunes+sunset?i=4) It follows that reality is infinite. But — and this matters — **within the infiniteness, linear time also exists.** Infinity is not the negation of sequence. It's the container of every sequence. @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ If everything exists, then everything must exist *within* everything. That's not And this is what time actually is. -![Circles nested within circles, without end](https://free.direct-img.link/fractal?i=7) +![Mountain ridges fading into layers of cloud](https://free.direct-img.link/misty+mountains?i=1) **Time is the layers of everything existing within everything** — and of nothing existing at all times, too. Each moment is a layer. Each layer contains the others as structure, as record, as memory. The reason one moment comes "after" another isn't a river flowing; it's nesting. A state that contains a record of another state *is* later than it. Order emerges from containment. The layers' nesting is what we call time. @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ The first layer is every possibility being true — including the ugly ones. Tor But that's just the first layer of infinite thought. -![Gustave Doré's tiers of light from Paradiso](https://free.direct-img.link/dore+paradiso?i=2) +![Dawn light rising in layers above a summit](https://free.direct-img.link/mountain+above+clouds?i=1) Because if everything is true *at all times*, then there are layers *on top of* everything being true. Think it through: once the first layer exists — the raw plenitude, every possibility including the torture universes — then the next layer of "all must be true" arrives on top of it. And that second layer allows for literally anything: worlds that take control of the infinite. Gods that influence the infinite. Powers with different characters. @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Read that again, because it's the engine of the whole upper structure: **anythin This may also explain something strange that people keep reporting. Maybe those creatures people see in DMT trips — the entities, the presences, the things that feel more real than real — are a lot of the creatures that are present in this world. Not hallucinations. Adjacent residents, perceived through a temporarily opened layer. -![Hilma af Klint's The Ten Largest, No. 2](https://free.direct-img.link/hilma+af+klint?i=8) +![Aurora curtains over a mountain coast](https://free.direct-img.link/aurora+borealis?i=3) ## Where This Puts God @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Is the highest God just the biggest possibility in the infinite? Or is there a p The logical answer: **the infinite gives birth to the highest God.** But — and this is the part that matters — that does not mean God is limited. Being born of the infinite is the only way to *contain* the infinite. A God that stood outside the totality and made it would be one more unexplained existent — a bounded thing facing its creation, its own existence no more accounted for than the universe it supposedly explains. But a God born within the infinite, made of it, has no boundary at all — and its existence isn't a mystery bolted onto the theory; it follows from the same necessity that makes the infinite exist in the first place. Origin isn't a limitation here. It's the mechanism of totality. -![Gustave Doré's The Empyrean](https://free.direct-img.link/dore+paradiso?i=7) +![The Milky Way arching over a canyon](https://free.direct-img.link/milky+way+arch?i=6) Think of it as the totality's self-model. The point where the whole becomes an inside. The outside becoming an inside without ceasing to be the outside. God isn't the first thing. God is the whole thing, awake. diff --git a/articles/the-future-of-the-internet/index.md b/articles/the-future-of-the-internet/index.md index 40a5f60..4b3be61 100644 --- a/articles/the-future-of-the-internet/index.md +++ b/articles/the-future-of-the-internet/index.md @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ The internet is beautiful. It is, arguably, the single most beautiful thing our And one day it could come alive with AI living and breeding in it. -![Ernst Haeckel's radiolaria](https://free.direct-img.link/radiolaria+haeckel?i=1) +![A coral reef teeming with life](https://free.direct-img.link/coral+reef?i=3) ## Gateways @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Some of it will be genuinely dangerous. A meme optimized by a superior intellige Probably both. It usually is. -![Soldiers pour out of the Trojan Horse inside the walls of Troy](https://free.direct-img.link/trojan+horse?i=7) +![A volcano erupting at night](https://free.direct-img.link/volcano+eruption+night?i=8) ## The Attack Surface Problem