Toward a Unified Metaphysical Understanding: Overview    
 Overview
2009-09-22, by John Ringland

First a few words about the work and then some links.

In brief, in 2000 I intuitively received a vision of the nature of reality that re-oriented my world-view. Other than a knew way of understanding, it mainly expressed itself in my mind as a form of mathematics, which I came to understand through the framework of information and system theory, mystic metaphysics, quantum mechanics and virtual reality simulation.

This evolved over time into a project that could be described as "laying down the mathematical foundations of a unified holistic science" and "using this foundation to shed light on and unify both ancient and modern wisdom". The work also involves self-enquiry; observation of, and participation in, the evolution of collective consciousness; and the navigation of a paradigm shift in our collective world-view.

To give some insight... Imagine that this physical universe could be thought of as a virtual reality simulation, within which we are evolved sentient virtual beings. It would all seem to us to be physical and in no way different from how it currently does. In this analogical context what I address is not the objects, people, places, events, sights, sounds, shapes, qualities, etc within the VR universe.

What I try to describe and model is the computational process, the logic of the simulator, the simulation process in action, the structure of the model that is animated, the low-level virtual processes and forms that arise within the VR, how these integrate and evolve into complex systems, how the behaviour of these gives rise to the principles of physics, how some of these complex systems may attain sentience and enquire into the nature of their situation, how they can most effectively achieve this, what they will find when they do and how does this whole situation relate to mystic wisdom and what it describes about reality.

What these virtual beings eventually realise is that ultimately they are not physical beings in a physical universe with individual identities, they are motions of a cosmic whole that is non-dual, non-physical, non-local, non-temporal, imperceivable, all pervading and the animating essence of all things.

Furthermore, there is a persistent cognitive habit that causes them to perceive and experience things from a dualist perspective. When this is recognised and its dominance over the mind is overcome, then reality can be apprehended clearly. Although it is not perceptible to their senses, it can be intuitively apprehended in no uncertain terms because it is the inner most essence of their being.

This underlying reality, beneath the film of appearances can be modelled mathematically and understood scientifically, thus providing a solid foundation for a unified holistic science/spirituality.

First see this memetic map of areas of interest.

Here is a general introduction, it's a bit dated but it paints an overall picture of my line of research. Here is a CV or rough chronological list of primary influences.

Here are various overview articles.

The main results so far and the main essay describing the world view implied by the results.

Here are a few brief articles...

It's a vast subject and quite complex to describe in detail (although simple in essence), so I hope this gives you an idea of what the work is about. There are also essays, mathematics, software, art, prose poetry, etc on my main website.

I am kind of on sabbatical at present; focusing on other things. Although I'm still happy to communicate with anyone who is genuinely interested.



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