Perception is Divination
If reality is a post hoc mathematical construction of a set of impressions generated by limited sensory input, how can we state with certainty that anything we experience is, in fact, real?
And if all we have regarding comprehension is limited to our subjective experience and interpretation of data received and processed in this way, can we even begin to say what reality is?
Reality is inferred, but never clearly perceived through the warped window of our senses. Science supplements our senses and makes postulations, philosophy argues its meaning and meaninglessness, and religion shackles the mind to a raft of holy assertions, yet none of them comes any closer to the truth.
Some say there is no truth, that there is no fixed reality, and that paradox is proof that truth is unstable at best and non existent at worst. This is not to say that science doesn’t work or that philosophy is without value, or that religion, or constructs like it, are without practical import regarding social cohesion and indoctrination. But what we have learned is that our perceptions are predictive hallucinations that show us only what they think should be there.
It’s all a projection and time and space have little meaning outside of our experience of them.
The interface theory of perception tells us that spacetime, and everything that we see in it, including ourselves, is a projection of our brains, like the desktop interface of an unfathomable computer.
Are then our brains, as we can see and experience them, projections of something else? Is not then all that we can experience thus? Perception’s purpose, we know, is to drive behavior according to fitness based imperatives and truth has nothing to do with it.
These projections that we experience as reality do not show us truth, nor are they meant to. They are only purposeful hallucinations. Useful mirages meant to drive optimal fitness behaviors that were developed by evolutionary pressures in the ancestral environment.
Our perceptions do not show us truth. Nor are they meant to because, in biological terms, truth isn’t useful. And studies using powerful supercomputers have demonstrated that organisms that see truth vs. organisms that perceive according to fitness behaviors have stunningly short life spans. And so all of reality as we can know it is an illusion and some, like Elon Musk, think it may even be a simulation. An idea not far from gnostic cosomological conceptions if you consider this simulation a matrix-style prison of dreaming.
We know brains only show us a prediction of a moment that has already passed. And what we see is only a post hoc reconstruction of a 3D cross section of 4D matter enfolded in approximately 7 more dimensions.
What this tells us is that perception is identical to divination and that things like Runes, Tarot and I Ching augment our brains predictive capabilities. In fact many non standard methods can be devised that behaves in similar ways. They do so because ours brains have similar functions and are constantly seeking patterns in chaos.
Our brains create patterns where there are none and reality behaves as if they are there. It is the basis of all magic in a sense, and it is how quantum states of superposition collapse as if the subatomic particles involved somehow know that we are going to observe them before we actually do.
It would seem that consciousness predicts the Universe while the Universe predicts us. Mind and matter are the same stuff. Soul and substance are the same thing and reality is the divination of yourself.
