The Theory of Everything, Told Through Everything
When I tell a story, there’s usually an event that seems the most logical to start with and one that is meant to end it, and that’s what defines the story. Of course, the secret in the telling is what makes it fun, but that requires stringing together selected events from my own perception and ephemeral cognition at the time to really make it a story — in particular my story.
Physics can describe consciousness in a similar way. There have been theories that attempt to explain why attributable abstractions to physical objects — mass, identity, etc.— appear to have different physical manifestations in our perception but in fact represent the distributed actualization of the realized concept with which we are able to understand it. Feynman’s proposed solution to why all electrons/positrons actually belong to a singular, finitely distributed, time-agnostic entity is an abstraction that can explain a consciousness that exists in all of us, independent of time, and with properties that help us explain the similarities between us all, yet each with a unique actualization in the physical universe.
So when I tell you a story from my perspective, the events that I describe non-inclusive of the beginning and end are unique events that consisted of a past moment in time that doesn’t fully describe the moment as realized by the collective universal consciousness. For this reason, everyone has their own take on “what happened”, so everyone has their own “story”, which each instance of consciousness can define, distribute, and realize based on a well-defined framework for describing an event.
This theory of a completely divided consciousness follows from the no-cloning theorem, supports consequences of string theory that posits greater dimensions affecting manifest reality are “smaller” than our most fundamental abstractions of physical matter yet affect their actualization in perceivable dimensions, and has consequences that open the door to faster-than-speed-of-light travel if we play our cards right. Here’s when things are going to get really wonky.
Imagine you have a mirror you’re trying to carry up an infinitely long staircase. This mirror is heavy as fuck. And like any mirror, it reflects the light that bounces up against it, and is a perfect representation of reality interpretable by any given instance of consciousness. If you break this mirror into individual atoms, it’ll still take an infinite amount of energy to take all the pieces to an arbitrary point along this infinitely long staircase. And without taking all of it, without perfect information that completely reflects the transported object as it originally existed, this broken-ass mirror is going to seem like a completely unique object and any consciousness that exists at the new point of reality-interpretation will not be able to tell that it’s pieces of the same moment.
But if you break this mirror down into energy — if you can excite the electrons to harvest the photons and mass such that time itself is dissolved — then transporting this mirror to any other interpretable perspective is trivial. A quantum manifestation of this concept is entanglement, where a tensor product of quantum states is indistinguishable from one another from our perspective, yet we “know” (we don’t actually) the entities are two different things.
The truth is though, while all this talk is implying that an image of our consciousness can be projected to any arbitrary point and be qualitatively and quantitatively be understood as the origin consciousness (assuming a mechanism of relatively perfect reconstruction), and also implying that this process would be reversible, the destination “shadow” consciousness is still a unique entity that must act as a “receiver”, with the explicit intention of acting as such, so that its availability as a host for the projecting consciousness is assured. What this means is, for time travel/faster-than-light travel of unique consciousnesses to be so, one must plan ahead both spatially and temporally in a coordinated manner that is beyond the scope of our understanding.
Consciousness is too fluid to be matter or have mass; it is energy. It has the ability to interpret different moments in time as unique events, something that matter cannot do as mass-containing matter is not independent of time. It is not information that can be copied as energy instances are as unique as the mass it can be derived from, the mirror example isn’t a perfect abstraction for what I’m getting at. A clarification on the analogy could involve imagining the recreated mirror at the arbitrary point on the infinite staircase reflecting the moment to which it’s been transported; it doesn’t contain the information of the source, but exists in the new moment serving the same purpose, thus it doesn’t violate the no-cloning theorem.
