Why Is This So Cool?

It Answers All of the Most Interesting Questions:

• What is life all about?

• Why does the mere act of observation appear to alter reality?

• Is there life after death? If so, what's it like?

• How is it that objective reality doesn't exist, according to recent experiments in physics?

• Why does the universe appear finely tuned for the existence of matter, let alone life?

• What is matter? What is dark matter?

• Do parallel universes really exist?

• If a tree falls in the forest and there's nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound?

• What explains quantum entanglement? The quantum Zeno effect? The delayed choice quantum eraser (apparent retrocausality)?

• Are paranormal experiences real? How do they work? What are UFOs?

• Is it nature or nurture? Or neither? What explains drastic differences between the values and personality traits of identical twins who have the same genetics and were brought up in the same environment?

What is cool about Digital Consciousness Philosophy is that it provides a theory, framework or an answer to all of the preceding burning questions. Details are coming.

It Can Change the World

Are you tired of the impression of the world and society that is imprinted upon us by the evening news? While the preponderance of negative stories are presented in a disproportionate amount relative to the myriad uplifting narratives that simultaneously exist, defenders of the media may argue that misery sells. The press is simply giving us what we want to see. Yet, the bigger truth is that the real crimes of society are underreported — stealth imperialism, war profiteering, greed, government corruption, lack of willingness to care for the truly unfortunate, cruelty to animals, big corporate interests stomping on indigenous cultures and so on.

Interestingly, were we to all have an understanding of and belief in Digital Consciousness Philosophy, things might be quite different. In fact, at the 10,000-foot level, it isn't hard to recognize that these differences represent an evolution of humanity.

For example, external consciousness implies an existence beyond corporeal death. Evidence in the form of collected personal experiences by research scientists such as Tom Campbell and Eben Alexander indicate that this existence is lasting — effectively immortal. Imagine how that would change decisions and priorities made here on Earth. All of the money and efforts toward life extension may be redirected toward life itself. The medical industry might recognize that extending our life expectancy is not an evolutionary directive. Knowing of an immortal consciousness, we may instead focus on curing diseases and improving the overall quality of life, rather than viewing people's health as a profitable maintenance plan that extends life beyond a comfortable limit.

Purpose

Digital Consciousness Philosophy imbues life with a great deal more meaning and purpose than does scientific materialism. This can give individuals a new perspective on the meaning of their personal lives. Instead of focusing their efforts on winning a hedonistic survival game based on fear and the scarcity of resources, the recognition that our purpose is to learn and evolve our consciousness can lead to significantly greater generosity to fellow humans, and true respect for other species on our planet. When the theoretical game Prisoner's Dilemma is played in an infinitely iterated mode, cooperative techniques optimize the outcome. Applying this lesson to an iterative life process, we would expect to see behavioral differences that result in an overall improvement in the quality of humanity as a whole versus a focus on personal self-interest.

Priorities

The increasing human population rapidly encroaches upon and destroys habitats for countless species of other conscious life forms, as well as using them for cruel experimental medical research. Recognition that animal consciousness is rooted in the same system that begets human consciousness would most certainly serve to eliminate the cruelty and exploitation. The materialist view implies that we are in constant competition for resources, thereby driving conflicts that cause war. But given the knowledge that we are all interconnected, would wars between groups of people based on differences in dogmatic religious beliefs, arbitrary geographical boundaries or political systems make sense anymore?

The power of intent

The digital nature of consciousness implies a probabilistic system (as evidenced clearly by quantum mechanics), which generates outcomes that can be influenced by intent. The belief that "skillful intention" can change your life, your society and your world could allow people to get out of their belief traps, and actually make a difference.

As the evidence that we exist in a consciousness-driven digital reality continues to mount, so will humanity's collective belief in this idea. Not only can the understanding of this model of our world lead to novel, unifying understandings in science but, more importantly, it can also lead to a more peaceful, harmonious, just and balanced worldview.

A Brief Overview

The detailed description of the digital-consciousness model and the way it works will be presented later in the book. But, to save the reader the angst of having to wade through all of the foundational stuff before the tasty tidbits, an overview is provided here.

Let's start with the idea of "all that there is." We typically think of this in terms of our physical reality, where "all that there is" is everything that exists in the physical universe. However, that has become a very antiquated notion over recent years, as we are now forced to consider things which do not appear to be in our reality, but for which there is ample scientific evidence. Examples include dark matter, dark energy and a huge quantity (some say infinite) of physical matter beyond the Hubble volume (the Hubble volume is that which is accessible to our observation, beyond which observation is theoretically impossible owing to the hard limit of the speed of light).

We should also consider things that may have less scientific evidence, but do have a good deal of rational philosophical and scientific thought underlying them, such as parallel realities and the so-called multiverse. And finally, there is that which is even beyond the theoretical physical, but for which there is ample anecdotal and scientific evidence, such as non-physical realms, the afterlife, the "in between" lives and the "astral plane." I hope to demonstrate convincingly that this latter category is not to be ignored, but is as real as the book in your hands. So, let "all that...