A Scientist’s Sublimation

A scientist falls in love with intricacies of L2, gazes at the laws of L2 and its mysteries. Satisfying curiosity is enjoyable, fulfilling, and even addictive. However, the problem is that usually a modern scientist specializes on a very small portion of L2 and loses the track of the whole picture. In the past centuries, scientists were generalists and polymaths who had formed a panoramic view of the reality.  Nezman does not fall into the trap of scientist’s sublimation and escapism. For Nezman, L2 and scientific knowledge are the stepping stones to building a much bigger castle of thoughts.

Anxiety of Freedom: 3 Approaches to Chose Your Reality

Every one of us has a constructed reality inside his or her own bubble. All of us have a "seemingly" external, universally lawful, and common W1 world that we can interact with (our W1 bodies are a part of this world). W1 external reality imposes many limitations on us (and our existence and our health depends on it), yet we can direct the movie constructed on the inner surface of our bubble (which is our reality) in many different ways. In fact, we can direct our movies in infinite ways, and awareness of such freedom makes us anxious. Having a variety of choices (each having their own unique consequences and associated future experiences) can cause confusion and anxiety.

Here we explore three approaches to directing one’s movie.

Outside-in Approach (scientist’s approach):
The person curiously looks at the outside world (W1) in order to find clues on how to direct his movie inside the bubble. He is imitating the status quo. The person looks at the nature, other people and society, and reconstructs some similar or slightly different scenarios.

Inside-out Approach (artist’s approach) :
The person get drowned inside his own bubble. He is mesmerized by his own constructions inside the bubble. He distorts the outside reality based on his inner desires and creates so-called illusions and delusions to enjoy the movie (and to entertain himself). Hollywood movies do a good job of providing hours of escapism into a fantastic worlds detached from W1 reality.
Similarly, the person creates a fantastic constructed world to entertain himself. However, a fantastic world that only relies on L1 and L3 will inevitably collide with W1 reality. A construct that contradicts L2 and state of affairs in W1 can create great amount of suffering, anxiety, anger, and depression.

Nezman’s approach:
Nezman observes W1 scientifically,  and constructs a well-constructed flexible reality on the top of those W1 observations. He builds an accurate model of W1 in L2. However, the blank portion of the picture (which is huge) remains to be filled with imagination and speculation. This reminds me of  the famous quote that “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination”.

Nezman knows one should first become a scientist and later spiritual, creative, and imaginative. Only after building a well-constructed castle of thoughts on a firm L2 foundation, Nezman can rely on his intuitions and emotions.

The Closest Concept to God

In the metaphor of bubble, I explained that the W2 content of the bubble does not represent god as much as the way bubble works does.
Different religions introduce different gods. Prophets claim miracles as as manifestation of god’s will. Religions try to fill out L1 layer of W2. However, no W2 content can describe god as much as understanding X machinery can.
The important question is how qualitative experiences are made. The miracle that creates them is machinery of X, and it is the closest concept to the creator (the God or gods). Understand X reveals the most extraordinary miracles that are hidden behind the most commonplace and neglected daily experiences.

All in all, the miracle that creates the reality is the closest thing to the ultimate reality or ultimate truth. If there is a god or a creator, the closest thing to that god is X machinery and the power of your imagination (that creates the image of that god).
Nezman believes that he is the closest thing to God or gods, and the machinery that constructs reality is divine.

Metaphor of Bubble: Art

Art is the reflection of the inner surface of a person's bubble (W2 meanings or W3 experience of a person) on a W1 medium. The artists brings out the content of its own bubble on a W1 medium. Later, the audience deciphers that medium according to their own W1 and W2 bodies. The users of the art may have a variety of different experiences depending on how much their W1 and W2 bodies is similar to those of the artist.
For instance, when an artist draws perfect geometric shapes with pure colors on a canvas, he is trying to illustrate the perfectness of W2 compositions on a W1 medium (a piece of paper or canvas). Music can also easily convey the emotions of the composer to listener. The composer experience transforms into some signs on the paper, then someone plays those notes and the listeners experience some experiences.

The War with Unknown Is Inevitable

Sooner or later,  to justify suffering inflicted or blessings bestowed by reality, man would construct some entities to paint the face of unknown. The nature of W1 and fundamental contradictions inside W2 make confrontation with these entities unavoidable. In fact, the war with unknown is inevitable.

The three realms, as well as their interactions, are very complex even unintelligible. This complexity and enormity of unknown makes any interpretation possible, and many friends and enemies can be constructed in order to justify the reality. The simplest explanation for suffering in the world is existence of an enemy with an ill-will (intention to inflict pain). The evolution of this enemy leads to construction of a super ill-willed entity (devil). Similarly, a super benevolent entity (god) evolves.
Z-man understands the deep intrinsic contradictions between 3 realms. Nezman does not let anyone else describe the unknown for him. He is the only one who constructs his own friends and enemies (or devils and gods).

Nez once said, “The only way not to fight the god is to be the god” (which I will explain later).

Different Manifestations of Will to Preference

Will to preference manifests itself in different forms.

Will to preference:

Will to power, will to meaning, and will to pleasure, will to aggression, and so on all are different facets of will to preference. Preference is the deterministic inclination of the feeler. The preference of the feeler is an outcome of W1 and W2 bodies. Preferences change as W1 and W2 bodies change. This deterministic mechanism, depending on whether the focus is on W1 body or W2 body, takes different forms. Even those after pleasure or meaning still need power.

Will to power:

Will to power manifests itself as a will to control external W1 events, people, own W1 body, and own W2 body. All in all, having power is a must because 3 out of 5 areas of control greatly depend on power. In the pursuit of power, W2 lenses are arranged in a way that gaining and exerting power seems preferable either as a value in itself or as a means that facilitates other preferred W1 or W2 compositions. The ultimate goal of will to power mostly resides in W1 realm.
Nez explains that without power desires cannot be satisfied, whims and dreams cannot be realized, and a great II cannot be produced. Power is a means for entertaining the feeler. Some need much more power to control W1 events (and people’s W1 or W2 bodies), and some need less power because they can entertain themselves by controlling their W2 body.

Will to meaning:
Certain meanings are aesthetically more preferable than others for the feeler. A meaning is created by certain W1 and W2 compositions, and certain proportions are involved in creation of meaning. For instance, that a hungry child shares his donut with a friend may seem much more meaningful than that a billionaire donates millions to a charity.
The alignment of  W1 or W2 compositions with the preferences of the feeler creates a long-lasting pleasure. Although creation of meanings may need to impose certain orders to W1 and W2 compositions, yet the meaning ultimately resides in the castle of thoughts in W2. Although will to meaning’s goal resides in W2, the ultimate goal of everything knowingly or unknowingly resides in W3.

Will to pleasure:
Will to pleasure may seem to differ from will to meaning (preferred W2 compositions), yet experiencing pleasure is a preferable state.
Will to pleasure is one pathway to preferred compositions, and every individual based on his or her W1 and W2 bodies chooses a pathway of his own preferences. For instance, a person may choose selfish animalistic pleasure over altruism and philanthropy. However, the animalistic approach rely heavily on W1 body (which has limited capacity) and fails to create a long-lasting entertainment for the feeler (and blind pursuit of own pleasure may create ugly meanings). For instance, sexual pleasure is one powerful source of this will, and addiction, obsession, and narrow-mindedness may follow. The ultimate goal of ill to pleasure resides in W3 realm.

The Past is Sacred

Whatever has happened is the past is sacred. Only the future is a blank canvas ready for creating beauty and pleasure according to our preferences. Wanting something other than what has happened is the most foolish desire. The past is irrelevant the second it passed (regret, shame, and any other negative feelings attached to past are just illusions). Perhaps what exists at the present moment is the only alternative based on the deterministic laws of W1, W2, and W3, and is perfect.
When it comes to the past events, Nezman only analyzes and understands them in order to gain control to create beauty and pleasure in the future. Nezman transforms and remasters the memories of the past according to his own preferred L1 and L3 interpretations. He revises his self-image according to new interpretations. He even may beautify his past in the light of new interpretations and become the hero of his own past scenarios.
For Nezman, past is the only inevitable alternative and hence perfect and sacred. all in all, Nezman’s attitude toward what has happened in the past and what is inherited in the present is acceptance. He accepts his fate until this moment, but he does his best to mold the future according to his preferences.

Will to Preference and Its Different Manifestations

There is no contradiction between will to power, will to meaning, and will to pleasure, and so on. All are manifestations of will to preference. Will to power is required to make will to pleasure and will to meaning possible. Feeler wants to get pleasure (through W1 body) or get meaning (through W2 body); therefore, it needs W1 power to provide W1 pleasure, rearrange W2 bodies, or control W1 events toward its desired W1 and W2 compositions.

The feeler has preferences. The feeler wants higher qualitative experiences depending on the composition of W1 and W2 bodies. It prefers certain W1 and W2 compositions over others. It wants power if regards power as a means to fulfill its preferences. It wants carnal pleasure because it is a preferable experience. It wants artistic beauty because by looking at it feels good. It creates certain meanings because by being associated with those meanings, it feels better. It wants survival as long as it has hopes for future preferable experiences (according to W1 and W2 bodies that at that moment give rise to his preferences).

Metaphor of Floating Foundations

Ocean beneath:
W1 reality is like a raging sea, a chaotic and unknown reality.
Foundation L2:
L2 is where our sensations and direct observations with the help of common sense gives birth to science. It creates an incomplete, evolving, and ever-changing model of W1 reality. Even L2 is floating on the ocean of unknown.
First And Second Floor L1 and L3:
L1 is where we fill out the incomplete W1 model with our hypotheses and guessworks (metaphysical beliefs). L3 is where our W1 hardware, memory of past emotions, and ... construct over L2 (instincts, and preferences).
In a healthy construction (that serves the feeler the best), L2 is the most robust, and then L1 and L3 are built on top of the foundation of L2.
Any construction is an interpretation of the ocean of unknown. Understanding this is frightening for any sane person. When even L2 is an approximate and incomplete description of W1, it's obvious that how much of L1 and L3 are made of illusions. Nezman understands the gravity of unknown. He constructs a well-balanced castle of thoughts on firm L2 foundations and well-proportionate L1 and L3 layers.

L2 Lenses Compared to L1 and L3 Lenses

• Greed is a L3 lens (or sometimes L1). L3 can create desires that seem infinite and overpowering; however, the W1 body does not have such a capacity to satiate infinite desires. For instance, sexual desires mostly affect L3 lenses. Sexual desires in L3 are insatiable, while L2 suggests that body’s ability and libido is limited.

• L2 builds a rather accurate model of W1, but L1 and L3 could be completely detached from W1 reality (and time and space). L1 and L3 have no sense of time. When it wants, it wants now and wants all. Infinite wanting in a world that W1 external world and W1 personal body have limitations is just an illusion.

• L2 laws, as well as W1 events, seem inexplicable. For instance, luck is inexplicable concept. However, L1 and L3 have many laws, values, ethics, super-ego, and so on that are justified based on one’s preferences.

• L2 measures, analyzes, interprets, hypothesizes, records state of affairs in W1 through the use of common sense. For instance, L2 can have a scientific methodology.  However, L3 is tinted with emotions rooted in the past experiences or W1 body instinctual input. L3 is so personal that can be construed as an illusion. There is no place for emotions in L2, but both negative and positive emotions belong to L3. Death is irrelevant and unknown (and not frightening) in L2, but the concept of death can be frightening in L3 (or sought after in L1, such as martyrdom for a religious cause).

• In most people, L1 and L3 lenses are much more powerful than L2. That’s why superstition, illusions,  selfishness, greed, and lust are so commonplace. Man is much more animal than he thinks.

• There is no judgement in L2 (because morality is L1 and L3 lenses). For instance, many L1 and L3 lenses (such as super-ego) may judge you and create the feelings of shame and guilt. The feeler’s tastes (and preferences) and prior W3 experiences have the highest influence on L3, and the least on L2.
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Metaphor of Bubble: The Window of Attention

The inner surface of the bubble is a vast screen to entertain the feeler. The window of attention is a limited area that feeler is watching in every moment. Different W2 lenses (input from inside bubble) and different W1 events (input from outside bubble) are registered in different areas of bubble’s surface.
The overarching complex feeling of feeler in any moment comes from the window of attention of the feeler and the composition that it evaluates. Every composition is composed of smaller compositions.
The feeler may evaluate the components of a composition differently from the whole. Amazingly, the value of the whole composition is not absolute, and it greatly depends on how pleasure and pain are assigned to elementary experiences and what W2 mathematics is used to create larger compositions out of those elementary experiences (data and mathematics).
Since every conscious being has unique W1 body composition and W2 body composition, whose data and mathematics are unique (perspectivism exists in defining good and bad, as well as beauty and ugliness).

Metaphor of Bubble: The Movie Directed Inside the Bubble

Your bubble is your personal universe. Inside the bubble, knowingly or unknowingly,  you are the director, the screen play writer, leading actor, the sidekick, and extras. A movie is being directed on the inner surface of your bubble, and the feeler is experiencing it.
What you project on the inner surface of your semi-transparent bubble is combined with the reflections that are penetrating from outside W1 events. In other words, the final product is a mixture of the input from outside bubble and magical projections of lenses inside the bubble. For instance, you are standing on a layer of ice in a frozen lake. You register W1 input of where you are. If you think the ice is thin and no one is around to help you (in case you ice broke and you fell in freezing water) then you will experience fear. However, if you think the ice is thick and soon you will exhibit your mastery of figure skating in front an audience, you will experience joy. In both cases, W1 input is the same, but different W2 lenses project different scenarios about future on the inner surface of the bubble.
As one may notice, what comes from outside bubble (W1 input) is rather unchangeable, but what comes from lenses inside bubble (from W2 lenses) is malleable. If one has accurate L2, his screen plays and his actor roles conforms more to W1 events. Such a person will be more successful in using W1 laws or events in his own favor.
The input of W2 lenses (especially L1 and L3 lenses) can create meaningful and beautiful scenarios of future in the movie (even without having any support from W1 input). Watching the movie of fulfilling desires in future can create as much pleasure as fulfilling them at the present moment. In other words, even image of pleasure creates pleasure. Many religions promise future scenarios of meaning and pleasure by creating L1 lenses that transform W1 input. They may interpret suffering at the present moment as a path to future pleasure and beauty. Discovering such a power is frightening for many. The fact that a person can be the creator of his or her movie despite W1 events in outside world is the most frightening for many and most promising for some. Understanding X will help you to gain control over your screen play, actors’ characterization, and many other aspects of your own movie on the inner surface of the bubble.

Nezman’s Unique Pragmatism Is Riding on the Back of Science

Overwhelming levels of uncertainty and the gravity of unknown lead Nezman to a kind of pragmatism. While, for Nezman, L2 (including science) is non-negotiable,  he or she adopts L1 and L3 beliefs that serves the feeler the highest extent. On top of an accurate and updated L2 foundations, Nezman constructs a castle of thoughts that creates the most pleasurable, meaningful, and beautiful qualitative experiences.

Hierarchy of Three Realms

The meaning of life changes, as one’s interpretations about the priority of three realms changes.
If W1 realm is considered as primary, then W2 and W3 realms are just some secondary accidents and attributes of W1. If W3 considered is the ultimate goal, W1 ad W2 realms are just a bridge to W3 realm and it’s qualitative experiences. The interpretations of the three realms greatly affect how one assigns value to everything.
For Nezman W3 experiences are the most important. Nezman believes that W2 thinking is a tool for maximum W3 experiences. In other words, one thinks because thinking is a tool that allows the person to fulfill one’s preferences and desires. Survival is not the goal, but maximum fulfillment of one’s preferences is the ultimate goal.

Living Beings Are Crystallized Desires

Life is a amalgamation W1, W2, and W3 compositions emerging from W1 ocean. Life is manifestation of a desire that emerges from the heart of the stormy W1 ocean and dissolves back into it again. Living beings are crystallized desires.

Machiavellian Characteristics of Life

Life’s Machiavellian characteristics pay off when it comes to achieving preferences and survival. Living beings have evolved to possess vices such as deception, mimicry, camouflage, and so on. Conscience, empathy, and morality emerged very recently after development of strong human W2 lenses (when L1 or L3 lenses of beautiful meanings won against L3 lenses that root in W1 body such as instincts).

Lucky Homo Sapiens

Life is the outcome of evolution plus many random events. Many meaningless and random environmental and geological events have shaped life in the course of evolution. The history of the Earth reveals how natural events affected climate and, in turn, the path of evolution. Some random events, which can be called luck in this context, have shaped life forms including Homo Sapiens.

Preference Precedes Survival

Nez: Preference precedes survival.
Survival is not the ultimate goal. Maximum fulfillment of our preferences in the given time is the ultimate goal. Only those lucky species that rewarded survival with pleasure survived (and passed their genes). Pleasure is a means for achieving preferences.
Nezman controls and budgets pleasure toward achieving his or her preferences.

Metaphor of Bubble: Adjustment of Transparency of the Bubble

The real problem of the world today is that the ruling class are so focused on their pleasure that they fail to see the possibility of creating beautiful and meaningful W1 and W2 compositions inside and outside their bubbles. They do not bring into account the feelings of other sentient beings and judgement centers because they cannot see them. Their bubbles have become opaque from the explosion of light. Usually, the inner surface of the bubble should be semi-transparent (to the extent that other judgement centers outside can be partly seen) and semi-reflective (in a way that self-image can be seen). In a bubble that is exploding with light nothing can be seen on the inner surface. It temporarily erases all scenarios of past, present, and future from the inner surface of bubble.
The blindness of pleasure can be extremely costly. It will reduce their focus on L2 on the inner surface; it also reduces their focus on other judgement centers. Addictive pleasures blinds people to suffering of others (because they get drown in themselves). Not being able to see other judgement centers whose sizes are defined by W2 mathematics, they can inflict pain to others.

However, when this blindness goes away even for a moment, they see the abyss inside others' bubbles and become self-destructive. Perceiving the ugliness of pain they have inflicted on others will haunt them.

That’s why adjustment of transparency of the bubble is very important for having empathy. Opposingly, If the bubble is filled with beautiful meaning instead of excessive addictive pleasure, the blindness will not occur, and the opacity of the bubble will not reduce. Other judgement centers can be brought into account because they are seen. However, the root cause of the problem of empathy is in the mathematics of evaluation of other judgement centers.
Nezman believes that this a historical destiny that the feeling of all sentient beings will be taken into account with a right mathematics.

Metaphor of the Self-Aware Robot

 This metaphor compares the complex evolutionary and biological machineries of body, mind, and consciousness with the hardware, software, and hypothetically qualitative inner experiences of a robot.
This robot begins to wonder who he is and why he feels the way he feels. He asks many questions.
Who or what am I? Why am I the way I am? Why do my body, my thoughts, my beliefs, and my emotions change? Why do I want the things that I want? What do I  have certain desires and preferences? What should I do? What is moral? What is good? Where am I? Who is my creator? And many other questions...
This hypothetical robot asks questions about 3 main topics of his own hardware, his own software, and his own feelings and qualitative experiences. To answer these questions he needs to understand all that exists out there in W1 (including his own W1 body), the working of W2, and the way W3 experience is created. This robot also faces other difficult questions.
How do fundamental laws of physics determine what I am now?
How did random events throughout evolution shape my ancestors to make me what I am today?
How do the thoughts of people who lived before me (and my culture) affect my software?
How much do indoctrination of parents and friends make me what I am today?
How much did I contribute to what I am today?
In the path of answering these questions the robot discovers how little control he has over how he feels today. He discovers that some deterministic processes have governed his hardware and software so far. In fact, he learns that he has inherited a unique hardware and software that inevitably give rise to the reality he lives in. However, the robot also realizes that if he gain control over his own software (and partly over his own hardware), he can control his own feelings and constructs.
Such an awareness leads him to recreate itself. He become a creature who wants to become the creator of the self and his own personal universe. He wants to break away from being a slave of his hardware and software and become the master and creator of his own personal constructs. Instead of being the slave of its original or acquired software, it rewrites its own codes. However, this self-discovery requires a lot of education, introspection, meditation, and imagination.

Contradictions Are Inevitable

Contradictions and Value dualism are inevitable:
Even robots with perfect hardwares and softwares crash. An organic conscious living being with complex W1 and W2 bodies is doomed to experience contradictions. Contradictions seem inevitable and even natural; therefore, one should find ways to minimize the damage caused by them.
Desires and preferences are sacred and perfect. They bloom like flowers from the W1 and W2 bodies. As W1 and W2 bodies change, desires change. For instance, a boy wishes to have a bicycle similar to his neighbor, but when he become an adult, he wishes to have a luxurious car.
One major contradiction is created  when W1 and W2 compositions change but the memory of past desires and preferences still exists in one’s memory. In fact, a stream of desires is recorded and constantly contradictions are emerging. Some people have inappropriate, ridiculous, or meaningless desires at old age. They are still under influence of desires created by outdated W2 lenses.
There are many instances of contradictions that will be addressed in detail.

Distribution of Luck

Luck exists no matter how incomprehensible and unpredictable is for us. Luck is everything in this world.
Luck has determined who we are in many different instances throughout our evolution. For instance, the extinction of dinosaurs by a meteorite (or volcanos) was bad luck for dinosaurs and sheer good luck for mammals. Certain complex physical, biological, and environmental factors have shaped us the way we are (and still do).
We try to control adverse effects of luck by insurance, but our civilization still suffers from disparity in distribution of luck among members of community. We prefer that everyone get a minimum share of luck, but our socioeconomic is system far from providing a more fair distribution of luck.
Any attempt toward a more homogenous distribution of luck would fail as long as some groups regard themselves as the superior race, some families regard themselves as blue bloods, and the smart consider themselves a different species.
Nezman believes in W1 Luck, yet he tries to change W1 toward the most beautiful and meaningful qualitative experiences for everyone.

Shaky Ground of Principle of Uniformity of Nature

We should understand that one day we opened our eyes and realized that certain physical laws and principles rule the universe; however, there is no guarantee that the universe will continue to conform our discoveries in the future. The same way we discovered that such laws exist, we can find out that those laws are not working anymore, or they are applicable to more limited domains or spans of time. We have shaped our pictures of the universe based on the shaky ground of the principle of uniformity of nature (which is just an assumption).

W1, W2, and W3 in a Nutshell

Three kinds of things exist. W1 is what is out there (from which our W1 body also made up). W1 includes physical and natural world with its laws.  W2 is the images, impressions, models, ideas, memories, and imaginations of W1 world. W2 is divided to 3 layers of L1, L2, and L3. W3 is the qualitative inner experiences, feelings, and moods. W1 and W2 bodies give rise to W3. The whole W1, W2, and W3 can be called W0.

W1 Revisited

W1 is a realm that is unknown (perhaps unknowable in core). W1 is the thing in itself. We can only register, observe, measure the impressions of the thing in itself to the extent that our evolutionary hardware and software allows us to. This means we only can know about W1 as much as our senses and faculty allows us to register. W1 is the beginning point, and W2 and W3 emerge out of it. With the help of our senses and intellect, we observe and register what and how things exist. Through a fundamental reductionism, we record the W1 state of affairs in our W2 (mostly in L2).
W1 realm comprises W1 external (including physical world) and W1 body (a biological body). For the highest qualitative W3 experience, one needs a controlled preferable external W1 plus a healthy W1 body.
W1 (including physical world) is mysterious and unknown (perhaps unknowable in core). When we dig deep into matter and energy, we reach to 4 fundamental forces of physics. We reach to a point that we understand the relationship and mathematics of those fundamental forces that seemingly deterministically give rise to matter as we know it. Matter and energy are familiar names and approximately describable by mathematics, yet unknown in core.
Everything is moving and changing in W1. Parts of every composition are constantly moving and changing in time and space. No event exactly repeats in W1. There are no two identical compositions in W1. Even one composition is not the same one nano second later (it has moved in time and space in relation to other beings).