We experience space utilizing the same process that our bio-sensory system uses to create all of our experiences of reality. In that experience we are the nexus. The closer to us that objects and events are, the more accurately we can detect them. As they recede, that accuracy diminishes. Finally, on either side, far or near, of the limits of our sensory systems capabilities, objects and events disappear from detection altogether, they do not exist within our experience. Do the attributes of objects actually diminish or disappear due to their proximity, or lack thereof, to an observer? Of course not. Just because we can not detect objects does not mean they don’t exist. It is the nature of our bio-sensory experience that imbues space, and the objects and events within it, with this quality, and not the other way around.
Our experience of time is likewise congruent with the rest of our bio-sensory systems experiences of reality. We, each observer, is the nexus within time. Objects and events are ‘real’, that is, they exist, only at the moment of manifest reality, the ‘now’ moment between past and future. In the past, an object or event was but is not now. In the future, an object or event will be but is not yet. Our bio-sensory experience of reality occurs in a now moment of manifest reality only. But, we have seen, in TotIs, that our experienced now moment is not a now at all, it is a creation of our biology itself. As with our experience of space, it is our bio-sensory experience that imbues time, and the objects and events within it, with this quality, and not the other way around.
While these effects may seem ‘trivial’, they are not. We think that because we can know these things, we can account for them, thus making our experience accurately reflect reality. This is not so. These effects have profound implications, and are the reason the experience of reality created by our bio-sensory system is defined by me as antIs reality, a separate yet dependent reality from totIs reality. It is an interpretation of our interactions with totIs reality, that nevertheless, imbues that interpreted experience with the imprimatur of actual totIs reality. This antIs experience appears as part and parcel of the very process that assures the organism’s survival. The nature and attributes of the universe around us will ALWAYS comport with our antIs experience of it because that antIs experience is the foundation, literally, of who we are as conscious beings. It is so real, to us, that it is beyond questioning. It is a perfect illusion.
The belief in the fidelity of antIs reality as equivalent to totIs reality is the source of our anthropomorphism of the universe and everything in it. This anthropomorphism is not a choice, it is the natural projection of antIs reality. It sustains our conscious being from within our biology while projecting it onto the world we live in. This is what I meant when I said, in TotIs, “We do not so much live in the world as create an experience of a world we live in.” This anthropomorphism is much more subtle and powerful than we think. It is not the mere endowment of human like qualities onto nature. It is the taking for granted that because we experience the world the way we do, it must be that this experience is valid for all the matter and forces in the universe. That because we experience being at the point in time between was and will-be, then, so too, will an electron or a mountain or a star. We, as conscious observers, project our observers viewpoint to all loci in the universe, and so believe that such a viewpoint is valid for everything everywhere. But totIs reality is not constrained to comport with the form our bio-sensory experience of it creates for us. An electron does not experience a now moment, or anything else, it is we who experience a now moment with electrons in it.
One of the great boons of our scientific revolution has been its ability to clarify the differences between our experience of the world as opposed to the way the world actually seems to work. Not very long ago we believed the world was flat, that a heavier object would fall to earth faster than a lighter one, we eventually discovered a microscopic world existing under our very noses, and soon, space and time were the two universal constants that formed the stage upon which all matter and energy played out their clockwork fates. Now, in our modern world, Relativity and Quantum Mechanics have expanded the chasm between our experience of reality and the way, through experimentation, that science finds the world to actually work. There is no longer a universal locus in space from which all other loci can be measured. There is no longer a universal now moment in time by which all other now’s are beholden, before and after are relative. There is no universal metric for time, that is, ticks of a clock, all are arbitrary. Space and time have become one entity, space-time, and with this conceptualization, some physicists believe that time itself does not flow at all. So this is the great divide; as conscious observers, we experience space and time as two separate things, but science tells us that they are one. If nothing else, this should tell us that our experiences of space and time are inaccurate at best, and like the rest of our bio-sensory experiences, an interpretation. But, as stated before, an interpretation we take for actual reality, not because we choose to but because we have no other choice.
But science is not an attribute of reality, like mass or wavelength, it is the activity of conscious human beings. It is the act of observation and measurement. Our science is conducted and interpreted from the antIs viewpoint of the scientists themselves. This fact reveals the great problem with our anthropomorphism of the world; no matter how deeply we delve, the reality of all things must share our experience of existing as separate objects in a now moment of flowing time. Neither an electron, a proton, an iron filing, nor a magnet experience anything. They simply are. The very idea of an electron experiencing anything is meaningless. The now moment we experience is our biology’s creation, and is not shared by the electron. The electron we see moving through time and space is a product of our antIs reality and not the other way around. Our biologically created antIs reality and the consciousness that grows out of it is barred from an experience of the unity of the totIs universe by the very process of its creation. In totIs, the electron is simply free to be, to exist, outside the confines of space and time as it appears to us in our antIs creation.
“But wait!” I hear you exclaim, “Look at all we have accomplished as conscious observers, manipulating our universe through the discovery of its laws by the power of our observation and our minds. This is all the proof we need that our experienced reality is very real indeed.” This is the circular logic enmeshed within antIs reality itself. It is real because our experience of it tells us it’s real. Even though we believe we have the power to manipulate matter, energy and events to produce objects and outcomes of our own creations, this only appears so from our antIs perspective. In a universe that IS, outside of the constraints of space and time as we experience them, who or what can be said to be manipulating anything? This is the universe that embodies the attribute that physicists and philosophers dread, but really only exists from within an antIs perspective, the ‘free will’ loophole, or more exactly, the ‘super-deterministic’ loophole.
When we try to mesh our experience of a now moment with the insights of Relativity theory, we discover that such a now is one of many that permeate throughout space-time. Past, future, now, they’re all relative, and they populate the universe in infinite numbers, that is, relative to various and sundry observers! What does it mean for time to flow when the past of one observer is in the future of another’s? We are trying to fit our square peg of antIs reality into an other dimensional hole of the totIs universe, a hole that it will never find, let alone fit into. Likewise we see the ‘spooky action at a distance’ of entanglement and instantaneous state changes in Quantum theory that appear to show activity outside of time as we know it. Bell’s inequality was the straw that broke the back of the universal speed limit, and thus, the belief that reality embodies an attribute of ‘locality’. That speed limit, with its ‘locality’ held the hope that the universe might retain some semblance of our experience of it, but that was not to be. The universe became a ‘non-local’ place where connected events, following quantum rules, could occur, in zero time (which is an antIs way to describe it), across the vastest distances of space. The universe is not constrained to follow our antIs set of rules when it comes to space, time, or anything else. Physicists and philosophers alike are at a loss to explain the mechanism or the meaning of these strange quantum results. However, Bell identified the one existing ‘loop-hole’ that offered an alternate ‘explanation’ of the results, the ‘free-will’ loop-hole. This loop-hole, in essence accepts that everything has been determined long ago. Note that this still relies on our antIs definition of time, based on the antIs experience. In fact the free-will loop-hole can be used to interpret anything that is happening in the world, and since Relativity shows past and future to be relative, it can interpret anything that will happen in the future as well. This scenario is what we would call ‘super-deterministic’, everything in the universe is already determined. But again, this definition is based on an antIs belief in the reality of our experience of time. What separates, so called, human free-will from from the rest of the universe’s workings, is randomness. Bell wondered whether the randomness of decisions made by conscious humans with, supposed, free-will, is similar in nature to the randomness of, say, a pachinko machine, or in Bells favorite example, a Swiss lottery machine. Either way, our special place as masters of our fate is erased, notwithstanding our inability to ‘experience’ the future.
In TotIs we finally abandoned the attempt to describe the universe from the anthropomorphic antIs perspective. In a totIs universe, neither a now moment nor flowing time exists as we experience it. Describing such a universe we can only say it IS, in absolute terms. Because we have no vocabulary to describe such a universe we use the vocabulary, based on our antIs reality, for analogy. The beginning and the end of the totIs universe exist simultaneously. But in the totIs universe, beginning, end, and simultaneity are meaningless, they are artifacts of antIs time and space, along with our human conceptions of randomness, free-will and choice.
Science is in the business of asking questions about the real world, in essence asking “what is reality?” Almost every scientific theory of reality has, imbedded in it, the anthropomorphism that suffuses every aspect of our experienced antIs reality. We ask “what is reality” and come up with a plethora of astounding theories. Accepting Einstein’s view that “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one”, we come to recognize that our reliance on our antIs experience to describe the reality we seek to discover is the source of the illusion and the cause of its persistence. By its very process, our antIs experience of reality places each of us, as biology, at a tiny and arbitrary point in a space and time, a point of our own creation. It is this perspective, which is the very definition of an illusion, that effectively veils the actual nature of our totIs universe from observation. It is a universe where every point in what we experience as space and time exists in a form far beyond anything we have, or can, actually experience.
The belief in the fidelity of antIs reality as equivalent to totIs reality is the source of our anthropomorphism of the universe and everything in it. This anthropomorphism is not a choice, it is the natural projection of antIs reality. It sustains our conscious being from within our biology while projecting it onto the world we live in. This is what I meant when I said, in TotIs, “We do not so much live in the world as create an experience of a world we live in.” This anthropomorphism is much more subtle and powerful than we think. It is not the mere endowment of human like qualities onto nature. It is the taking for granted that because we experience the world the way we do, it must be that this experience is valid for all the matter and forces in the universe. That because we experience being at the point in time between was and will-be, then, so too, will an electron or a mountain or a star. We, as conscious observers, project our observers viewpoint to all loci in the universe, and so believe that such a viewpoint is valid for everything everywhere. But totIs reality is not constrained to comport with the form our bio-sensory experience of it creates for us. An electron does not experience a now moment, or anything else, it is we who experience a now moment with electrons in it.
One of the great boons of our scientific revolution has been its ability to clarify the differences between our experience of the world as opposed to the way the world actually seems to work. Not very long ago we believed the world was flat, that a heavier object would fall to earth faster than a lighter one, we eventually discovered a microscopic world existing under our very noses, and soon, space and time were the two universal constants that formed the stage upon which all matter and energy played out their clockwork fates. Now, in our modern world, Relativity and Quantum Mechanics have expanded the chasm between our experience of reality and the way, through experimentation, that science finds the world to actually work. There is no longer a universal locus in space from which all other loci can be measured. There is no longer a universal now moment in time by which all other now’s are beholden, before and after are relative. There is no universal metric for time, that is, ticks of a clock, all are arbitrary. Space and time have become one entity, space-time, and with this conceptualization, some physicists believe that time itself does not flow at all. So this is the great divide; as conscious observers, we experience space and time as two separate things, but science tells us that they are one. If nothing else, this should tell us that our experiences of space and time are inaccurate at best, and like the rest of our bio-sensory experiences, an interpretation. But, as stated before, an interpretation we take for actual reality, not because we choose to but because we have no other choice.
But science is not an attribute of reality, like mass or wavelength, it is the activity of conscious human beings. It is the act of observation and measurement. Our science is conducted and interpreted from the antIs viewpoint of the scientists themselves. This fact reveals the great problem with our anthropomorphism of the world; no matter how deeply we delve, the reality of all things must share our experience of existing as separate objects in a now moment of flowing time. Neither an electron, a proton, an iron filing, nor a magnet experience anything. They simply are. The very idea of an electron experiencing anything is meaningless. The now moment we experience is our biology’s creation, and is not shared by the electron. The electron we see moving through time and space is a product of our antIs reality and not the other way around. Our biologically created antIs reality and the consciousness that grows out of it is barred from an experience of the unity of the totIs universe by the very process of its creation. In totIs, the electron is simply free to be, to exist, outside the confines of space and time as it appears to us in our antIs creation.
“But wait!” I hear you exclaim, “Look at all we have accomplished as conscious observers, manipulating our universe through the discovery of its laws by the power of our observation and our minds. This is all the proof we need that our experienced reality is very real indeed.” This is the circular logic enmeshed within antIs reality itself. It is real because our experience of it tells us it’s real. Even though we believe we have the power to manipulate matter, energy and events to produce objects and outcomes of our own creations, this only appears so from our antIs perspective. In a universe that IS, outside of the constraints of space and time as we experience them, who or what can be said to be manipulating anything? This is the universe that embodies the attribute that physicists and philosophers dread, but really only exists from within an antIs perspective, the ‘free will’ loophole, or more exactly, the ‘super-deterministic’ loophole.
When we try to mesh our experience of a now moment with the insights of Relativity theory, we discover that such a now is one of many that permeate throughout space-time. Past, future, now, they’re all relative, and they populate the universe in infinite numbers, that is, relative to various and sundry observers! What does it mean for time to flow when the past of one observer is in the future of another’s? We are trying to fit our square peg of antIs reality into an other dimensional hole of the totIs universe, a hole that it will never find, let alone fit into. Likewise we see the ‘spooky action at a distance’ of entanglement and instantaneous state changes in Quantum theory that appear to show activity outside of time as we know it. Bell’s inequality was the straw that broke the back of the universal speed limit, and thus, the belief that reality embodies an attribute of ‘locality’. That speed limit, with its ‘locality’ held the hope that the universe might retain some semblance of our experience of it, but that was not to be. The universe became a ‘non-local’ place where connected events, following quantum rules, could occur, in zero time (which is an antIs way to describe it), across the vastest distances of space. The universe is not constrained to follow our antIs set of rules when it comes to space, time, or anything else. Physicists and philosophers alike are at a loss to explain the mechanism or the meaning of these strange quantum results. However, Bell identified the one existing ‘loop-hole’ that offered an alternate ‘explanation’ of the results, the ‘free-will’ loop-hole. This loop-hole, in essence accepts that everything has been determined long ago. Note that this still relies on our antIs definition of time, based on the antIs experience. In fact the free-will loop-hole can be used to interpret anything that is happening in the world, and since Relativity shows past and future to be relative, it can interpret anything that will happen in the future as well. This scenario is what we would call ‘super-deterministic’, everything in the universe is already determined. But again, this definition is based on an antIs belief in the reality of our experience of time. What separates, so called, human free-will from from the rest of the universe’s workings, is randomness. Bell wondered whether the randomness of decisions made by conscious humans with, supposed, free-will, is similar in nature to the randomness of, say, a pachinko machine, or in Bells favorite example, a Swiss lottery machine. Either way, our special place as masters of our fate is erased, notwithstanding our inability to ‘experience’ the future.
In TotIs we finally abandoned the attempt to describe the universe from the anthropomorphic antIs perspective. In a totIs universe, neither a now moment nor flowing time exists as we experience it. Describing such a universe we can only say it IS, in absolute terms. Because we have no vocabulary to describe such a universe we use the vocabulary, based on our antIs reality, for analogy. The beginning and the end of the totIs universe exist simultaneously. But in the totIs universe, beginning, end, and simultaneity are meaningless, they are artifacts of antIs time and space, along with our human conceptions of randomness, free-will and choice.
Science is in the business of asking questions about the real world, in essence asking “what is reality?” Almost every scientific theory of reality has, imbedded in it, the anthropomorphism that suffuses every aspect of our experienced antIs reality. We ask “what is reality” and come up with a plethora of astounding theories. Accepting Einstein’s view that “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one”, we come to recognize that our reliance on our antIs experience to describe the reality we seek to discover is the source of the illusion and the cause of its persistence. By its very process, our antIs experience of reality places each of us, as biology, at a tiny and arbitrary point in a space and time, a point of our own creation. It is this perspective, which is the very definition of an illusion, that effectively veils the actual nature of our totIs universe from observation. It is a universe where every point in what we experience as space and time exists in a form far beyond anything we have, or can, actually experience. 
