Divided by Zero

Even the way the memory presents to our consciousness is of a different essence, one that lacks the sequential processes we can’t avoid when dealing with matter. This essence doesn’t differentiate between things, emotions and reasoning, it combines words, images and analysis in what I can only call diagrams of thought, reduced to their pure meaning and stripped of anything that would slow them down or burden them unnecessarily.

This is another thing you can’t do with realityeliminate all the components that are not useful to your task at a particular moment.

Reality is all there whether or not you need it to be.

Is thought a superior form of existence then?

Superior to what? It is a different form of organizing information that already exists. Even in dreams and fantasies you can’t conjure up things from outside your sphere of awareness. All that you can think of already exists somewhere in space and in time.

[Is he trying to say that thinking itself is just a map, a scaled replica of external information that already exists?

That all we are doing is to reflect, to resonate with a much larger library of data in the same way a tuner induces its sound into a tube when placed at the correct distance?

Is he trying to say that thought can’t be superior to other forms of reality because it is only mirroring those forms? That all this intelligent awareness we pride ourselves on is no more sophisticated than the vibration inside a crystal glass?]

Why jumps?

If you can picture the fact that the world is made of tiny balls stacked on top of each other, you can only move a ball at precise distances, which are proportional with the distance between the centers of the balls. You can’t place a ball at half that distance, or one and twothirds, only in full increments.

I said that knowledge shifts but consciousness is a continuum. This seems to be a contradiction.

Imagine a curve which represents your thought, that breaks at some point and continues at a higher level.

Between the two pieces there is a gap and inside that gap there is nothing.

It isn’t even ‘nothing’ in the context of your particular curve, it is nothing in a broad sense. You skipped a space, as if you suddenly found yourself inside the house without having to walk through the door.

Why do I say that the states of this step ladder progression are different in nature?

Let’s take the example I gave you earlier, with the color changing gemstone. It changed your map of reality, did it not? Now your reality has light that comes in different flavors, which unravel like poorly spun thread and whose loose strands you can delete with a metal dust eraser. I will say that the nature of this reality is very different from the nature it had before that. Before that light was made of one essence, which was all white and stayed in one piece.

It would go through transparent gems so you could notice their color, because that was the role of light, to illuminate things so you could see their colors.

I haven’t even brought up your role in this whole spectacle, in which you are so much more than an uninvolved observer, but I think we chopped reality fine enough already.