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In some mysterious way, each of us occupies a timeless domain, and to produce a four-dimensional world for the purpose of living in it, we mentally construct it. That is, we create the world in consciousness first and foremost. Reality, including ordinary clock time, is constructed in consciousness as well. We must not fall into the trap of saying

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The second dimension is breadth, or horizontality, or space. It describes the state of the world at any given time point. (This includes the usual three spatial dimensions, but it's much more comprehensive than that. We're in fact collapsing the full multidimensional complexity of the world into a single dimension. Moving along this dimension might... See more

To deal with such paradoxes we shall adopt an approach that we call model-dependent realism. It is based on the idea that our brains interpret the input from our sensory organs by making a model of the world. When such a model is successful at explaining events, we tend to attribute to it, and to the elements and concepts that constitute it, the qu

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This shared belief would shape collective actions—policies, inventions, movements—that bring those ideals closer to reality. Conversely, shared fears or pessimism can manifest as stagnation or decline. The universe, like a vast neural network, appears to respond to the dominant inputs it receives, rewarding focus, effort, and alignment while resist

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