The idea that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.

How best to make converts twice the children of hell - deceive them. Sway them that Jesus Christ is a myth, then smother them in science fiction and science falsely called as truth. Convince them that modern science is truth and not dominated by men of eastern babylonian religions,

Bill Hicks unloads this very provocative idea that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.



The idea that we are all parts of something bigger is not limited to Bill Hick's comedic routine. Before dabbling into esoteric and religious revelations let's look at the more scientific theory that suggests everything arises out of a state of oneness.

If you believe in cosmology and the big-bang, the current scientific theory is that the Universe at one point existed as a singularity and expanded in a big explosion called the Big Bang and thus formed the Universe.

Bear in mind, this is a theory but it gives us a starting point to examine the idea that a singularity can give rise to a multi-dimensional Universe.

What is a singularity? In geometrical terms a singularity is like the zero dimension or a point. It has no length, width or depth. The point in geometry is 0-dimensional.

As a singularity having no time, no space it likely only has a spin and angle which can actually give rise to the properties of to form a pattern which could lead to another type of expansion at an information level so lets examine how a singularity or a point can expand into the first, second, third dimension and so on.

As a physical system a point can either stretch into the first dimension, or it can self-replicate as more points, or it can move in any direction over and over again.

As an information system a point needs to produce another metric such as active/inactive or a spin. A binary state is more than enough to create {0/1} or {active/inactive} and store these states in the event-horizon which acts both as memory and information storage.

In the case of a big bang where every electron, photon et all co-existed in this singularity when they emerge we see properties of entanglement where two particles entangled with each other show the same measurement as if particle "b" knows what particle "a" is doing instantly over great distances. This is known as the EPR Paradox and is what Einstein coined as "Spooky Action from a Distance".

John Wheeler and Richard Feynman proposed a hypotheses called the "One Electron Universe" citing that the reason why every electron appears the same is that it is the same entity moving forwards and backwards in time creating a giant knot. It is interesting in singularity theory that a singularity could itself be the point moving forwards and back in time with itself to produce a larger informational manifold of space/time.

So keep this in mind, one electron entangled within space/time. One point either stretching, reproducing or moving. In the case of Wheeler's One Electron Universe the point as represented by the electron is moving to create the illusion of stretching or self-replication.

In all three cases, these actions produce the criteria for other dimensions. The first dimension being length, the second being width, the third being depth, the forth being the animated sequence of change, the fifth being probability and potentially more dimensions theoretically exist.

What we take from the geometrical manifold is that it's properties predict that a singularity must expand in such a way that space/time emerges based on the constraints of length, width, depth, change and probability.

Take for example Carl Sagan's take on Flatland to explain the 4th dimension.


And take this excellent illustrated video about 10 dimensions as another reference for what we observe in dimensional theory.



What does the first dimension allow for the point or singularity? It allows more information to exist. The information now can describe potentially infinite left/right distance in a spacial manifold. The point can be found traversing this length propping it up giving way to a larger informational potential.

When the point moves/stretches/replicates into the second dimension it now has exponentially more information it can produce. Instead of just a line, it can produce two dimensional patterns. Circles, Triangles, Squares and so on. A lot more information can appear on the 2nd dimensional maniford vs the zero and first. So much so that we can see beautiful illustrations as examples of how information can organize into complex patterns given just one more manifold to contain information.

When the point moves/stretches/replicates into the third dimension we suddenly have depth and distances between objects. The manifold takes on all our known properties of a third dimensional reality.

In order to observe change in any of these dimensions you need time which itself is the frame-rate of change between one frame of 3rd dimensional information. With time, you have past, present and future on a single time-line.

In Carl Sagan's flatland example, a third dimensional object passing through the second dimension can only be observed as second-dimensional information as it looses the property of depth. The second dimension can only see a slice of the third-dimension as there is no depth to describe the object. A cube becomes a square, it's depth is subtracted, very simple.

If we go back to quantum mechanics and superposition, we can see the shadow of the fifth-dimension (hopefully by now you are familiar with the shadow of the tesseract in Carl Sagan's flatland video ) and you know that in the third dimension we can only see the third-dimensional properties of other dimensions passing through it.

Superposition shows that a particle is a probability distribution when it produces an interference pattern. The interference pattern demonstrates fifth-dimensional properties of probability and yields some evidence that a fifth dimensional manifold exists for real. (Not in theory).

We know what can be described as information in the third-dimension, we live breath and experience reality from this constraint. An entire endless possibly infinite Universe can be contained with this level of information. But scale it down to the second, first and to the zero it looses information.

It is beneficial to the singularity to continue to progress into more and more dimensions because it will yeild far more potential information and states. A point in the fifth-dimension can now occupy many locations at once. The fifth-dimension can store not just one set of time-lines as limited by fourth-dimensional constraints.

By the time we get to the sixth dimension, the potential is so astronomical for what the geometrical manifolds can store as fifth dimensional information, that when we get to the sixth dimension which now can observe not just a single 4th dimensional time-line, but it can observe all fifth-dimensional time-lines and all the probable outcomes in each line.

The seventh dimension, the point becomes an infinite point (as per the video) meaning it contains all of the 0-6 dimensions and now we start seeing not just one Universe potential emerging as multiple universes can now start branching from this informational manifold. By the time we get to the 10th, an infinite number of universes can be contained and it appears what... a point.

So we begin from something very simple a point and how it moves into a multi-dimensional manifold and see how in theory a singularity or a point could in fact create the Universe, time and even a multi-verse.

What happens if we remove the point that is propping itself up into all these other dimensions? The manifolds all collapse back to a single point. It is the contraction of an expanded singularity into a geometrical manifold. To create a new universe all it has to do is repeat the process that allowed it to expand in the first place.

So why do we see little points and big points in our Universe? Why do little points, electrons, protons and other sub-atomic particles make up larger points such as atoms. Which then make up third-dimensional objects such as molecules, RNA/DNA to make up a cellular point which then makes up a body which itself is on top of a larger point, a planet which is a point circling a larger point, the sun which becomes a solar system that appears as a point of light in space that forms a galaxy which also forms a point in space?

This holographic recursion or fractal like nature is showing how everything is a part of everything else. That we exist in an interconnected reality system where everything is literally a part of everything else. For example, the carbon atom in your body could have been a carbon atom in a dinosaur.

The sunlight that was trapped as hydrocarbons by photosynthesis is now a part of your body, so a small part of the sun is already a part of you. We are no more separate from the Earth, than the Earth is separate from the solar system. The sun is no more separate from the Universe than the Universe is separate from reality.

Given enough time and entropy everything may collapse back into a singularity and be again one, or whole.

So how do we go from matter to awareness and see that awareness may also be a property of matter and itself a property of the singularity? Missing from cosmology is the idea that the singularity was self-aware.

In Bill Hicks muse, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. In dimensional theory we are all one point that has expanded into multidimensional manifolds. To give rise to our awareness in this equation we just need to add the attribute of awareness to the point. The point exists, and is aware that it exists.

As more patterns emerge, the point may never be aware of the larger objects it's forming, and each object that forms has it's own larger awareness. It produces an awareness fractal by which all things big and small have a subjective self-awareness constrained by dimensional boundaries. Yet all awareness could still come from a single universal source... the singularity or point that started it all.

I vote for a self-aware singularity that propagates itself through every dimension, and we are all parts of it, interconnected and unified forever changing from one pattern to the next, absolute and infinitely endless in all possibilities.

OP I have a question. If the universe is one consciousness, then why is my experience of consciousness "trapped" in this one particular human body? Or is this an illusion?

And if it is an illusion, then how can my experience of consciousness be reunited wih the universal consciousness (other than death)?

That is how the 'one consciousness' evolves. 'Experiential Learning' through experiencing all possible

It's probably a tl;dr for some but I like to contemplate how the universe expanded from a singularity and how everything relates to dimensions and awareness as we clearly exist in a system that supports the third-dimension so dimensional theory is actually very intriguing; more so when you can see yourself entangled in such a system.

I vote for a self-aware singularity that propagates itself through every dimension, and we are all parts of it, interconnected and unified forever changing from one pattern to the next, absolute and infinitely endless in all possibilities.

I think it is for these reasons that the law-of-attraction, or thought-manifestation for some people work. I've experimented with such ideas and seen results so hopeful to be more understanding of these strange underlying processes.

It makes reality feel like we are living in a choose your own adventure book. All sorts of different possibilities lurk within the potentially infinite probability nodes.

All that you are doing is giving the religious belief called MONism prevalent in the majority of religions on this earth, wrapped up in scientific sounding terms. Understand the religions of the men giving it to you, and you will find the source of the error.
Science falsely called.
Remember Man MONIS?
How about getting millions to declare themselves to be one in 'charlie'?
Monism

How best to make converts twice the children of hell - deceive them. Sway them that Jesus Christ is a myth, then smother them in science fiction and science falsely called as truth. Convince them that modern science is truth and not dominated by men of eastern babylonian religions, and they will never suspect that they are really being fed a diet of those religious beliefs as long as it is given as 'scientific theories'. The men are simply holding forth theories from their own religious understanding, and yet, swayed that 'men of science' are today's truth tellers, the people question nothing.

The masses holding up Je suis charlie signs are your evidence in just how willing people are to be united in religion without even understanding how the deception occurred or that it has occurred.

Think. There are approx 7 billion people on this planet. Let's say that Mr and Mrs Smith are in bed one night and upon awakening, Mrs Smith realises that her husband has died in the night. What's changed in consciousness? Not a thing.

Now, let's say that everyone else in the world also died at the exact same time as Mr Smith, leaving Mrs Smith the only living person left in the world. Ask the sme question - what's changed in consciousness? You'll get the same answer.

You then come to the inevitable conclusion that consciousness is independant of individual human experience.

And then Mrs Smith also dies. What then?

From watching the video and reading the post, it's all clear that the fail-safe mechanism is still up and running like clock work.

Yeah, doing all that talking, just to make this point; what's that? A black chess-board is One, now you add a white point and then another white point...is the chess-board still black?


All that education and all those Phd's, good luck! Out Of One We're Many.

From watching the video and reading the post, it's all clear that the fail-safe mechanism is still up and running like clock work.

Yeah, doing all that talking, just to make this point; what's that? A black chess-board is One, now you add a white point and then another white point...is the chess-board still black?


All that education and all those Phd's, good luck! Out Of One We're Many.

Is that you, Maynard?