A Systems-Oriented Theory of Everything

60 minute evolutionism documentary

It is for a contest, Immanuelle discovered it through a video on Hermetic theories

This is a provisional name and its name will be changed moving forward

Video description
This is a video for the theory of everything contest. It is by far the most produced video I've made so far.

Epistemology
0:00 hello Immortals this Theory of Everything covers Consciousness religion the origin of life and its future it 0:07 doesn't cover physics aside from a brief mention in ontology but rather it covers the emergence of order in the universe 0:14 the challenges facing all civilizations across the Galaxy and how religion can 0:20 potentially save us from those challenges I think therefore I am 0:25 isn't a good starting point for your knowledge of the world 0:31 it's a very complicated statement all things considered it uh presupposes a 0:38 lot of Concepts such as uh I or a conception of yourself 0:46 uh think which is a very 0:53 complex idea it's it involves an idea of an internal world 0:59 and uh is distinct from say sensory experience 1:06 and then therefore which is some kind of idea of logical entailment 1:15 and then finally am or some kind of concept of existence 1:22 so uh this it's definitely something that 1:29 if you consider the if you don't think about these Concepts you can reasonably 1:35 consider it to be something that is uh an acceptable starting point 1:40 but I don't think that say 1:47 the average uh illiterate peasant will be able to think 1:53 about this I don't think that the average uh kindergartner will be able to think 1:59 about this it involves a lot of Education of a certain 2:05 mode of thinking to even make sense so a better way to start your 2:12 epistemology instead of from I think therefore I am 2:18 is from your phenomenal experience or your 2:24 phenomenal knowledge with phenomenal knowing in contrast with 2:30 kagito ergosum you don't need any kinds of propositions 2:36 to start out you don't need logic all you need is to just 2:44 feel things you're feeling things right now when 2:49 you're hearing my voice in this video so uh phenomenal knowing 2:56 is something that really contrasts with this 3:02 you are just experiencing things you can experience being hungry 3:10 you can experience wanting food you can experience 3:15 eating food and enjoying eating food you can experience a loved one's face 3:22 and the joy of seeing their face you can experience 3:28 the wholdness of plunging into water 3:35 and all of these things importantly they are things that you are very 3:43 viscerally experiencing and they have values attached to them 3:49 there isn't going to be any kind of complicated attempt to derive values 3:57 from some kind of a logical construct such as what 4:03 what many philosophers do when trying to uh derive their ethical systems 4:10 the values are just right here as the foundation of the philosophical Theory 4:17 what is goodness goodness is something that gives you a experience at a very 4:26 fundamental level that you enjoy and you want more of 5:19 now that we have a basic idea of values and what it is that you want to achieve 5:27 the question though is how do you achieve something we didn't discuss an idea yet of 5:37 doing something interacting with the world just experiencing the world now we're going to get into how you 5:44 interact with the world you need procedural knowledge you need 5:49 to build skills be able to go out and do 5:57 something say riding a bike or uh 6:03 playing a video game something like that can help help you 6:08 get the phenomenal experiences that you want and your phenomenal experiences can tell 6:17 you how to get it you can go out into the world 6:24 try climbing a tree try uh riding a bike 6:31 try hugging a loved one and in all those cases it can give you the phenomenal 6:39 experience that you want and over time as you uh 6:46 practice more and more any kind of skill you can get better at it and achieve 6:54 your goals more now we get to another question though 7:01 which is are there certain things in the universe 7:07 that are independent of your skills that you need to know 7:12 this is propositional knowing there are a lot of situations where 7:20 there's a certain generalizable piece of information that can help you accomplish 7:27 your goals with uh with something like surfing uh 7:34 most of it is learning how to uh what 7:39 learning how to surf learning how to get up on the board catch a wave 7:45 Etc however though if you are 7:51 in a forest and you see some poison ivy then 7:58 it doesn't really matter what it is that you're doing it's always 8:06 going to be a hazard to you if you are 8:11 say trying to make a new uh folded ornament 8:19 out of the leaves or if you are 8:24 trying to burn it as incense or if you are trying to 8:33 clean yourself with it all of these things 8:39 are hazardous it's not a matter of learning how to do something 8:46 it's a matter of a generalizable piece of information that this plant is hazardous 8:56 so if you figure out this through uh some 9:01 kind of way um you want to apply it to all or many of 9:08 your different skills so this wouldn't be procedural knowledge 9:13 this is what we'll call propositional knowledge it's generalizable 9:20 and it is created through some kind of process of learning that you've done 9:27 usually it involves us it usually involves 9:33 finding something out by observing the world then remembering it and applying it but 9:40 you can also do it with somebody else's experiences but that just means somebody else 9:46 examine the world and then figure this out most people tend to think that knowledge 9:53 is just in this category in propositional knowledge but really 9:59 most knowledge is not in this category and attempting to put all knowledge into 10:06 this category causes a lot of problems such as say the person who constantly 10:13 reads new books about how to be a sigma male but they also 10:20 don't talk to anybody or practice anything they just 10:25 read more books there's a vast level of depth that you can have in in your propositional 10:33 knowledge and because of the fact that it's shared there's a very very large depth shared 10:42 across our entire Society but there's also a very large depth of 10:48 of procedural knowledge and phenomenal knowledge that people oftentimes overlook 10:54 all three kinds of knowing as you can see on the screen interact with each other and you can't really approach the 11:00 world without using all three kinds of knowledge if you don't use phenomenal 11:06 knowledge you'll just be blind if you don't use procedural knowledge 11:13 you won't be able to actually do things and if you don't use 11:20 propositional knowledge EO fall victim to lots of uh hazards and 11:27 not be able to get many opportunities that otherwise would be available 11:34 as these three ways of knowing correspond to the full breadth of our 11:43 knowledge I will call phenomenal Alpha I will call 11:50 procedural Lambda and I will call propositional 11:56 Omega after the first middle and last letter of the Greek alphabet 12:02 we've gone over the three kinds of knowing and there's a very wide range of 12:09 things that have been discovered with these three kinds of knowing rain there have been a wide range of 12:16 phenomenal experiences of skills that have been learned and taught 12:22 and of propositions about the world these propositions 12:27 include pretty much all of our modern scientific world view 12:34 ranging from mathematics to 12:39 to science and all of them 12:44 involve the usage of procedural knowledge to modify propositions 12:51 this is to say that the propositions do not in themselves have any kind of 12:59 logical connection to each other or entailment relationships uh 13:06 one plus one equals two isn't really a thing that uh exists 13:14 without the procedure or skill that we have of adding numbers together 13:22 this is uh an element that is often overlooked by uh people who think that 13:30 they're super smart and uh and don't really understand the 13:36 scientific method but just spout facts or what they think are facts at people 13:45 the uh the whole of human knowledge is not something that we can really cover 13:51 in this video but something that is relevant though is 13:57 how it is that we apply propositions 14:03 to the phenomenal how it is that 14:08 we use our propositional knowledge to understand our minds and how it is that 14:16 our minds work when we look at brains at a very low level 14:22 what we see going on in the neurons is two things 14:29 small world networks and self-organizing criticality as you can as you can see at 14:35 the bottom of the diagram on the screen uh that is a diagram of self-organizing 14:41 criticality it is shown with a metaphor of sand and 14:48 as you add sand onto it into a pile it 14:53 starts to organize itself into a pile like an hourglass 15:00 and as after it reaches a certain point then the pile will be at a point where 15:08 it collapses and it can and it can either collapse in a way that 15:13 uh introduces new variation and spots for 15:19 the uh for the sand grains to pile onto or it just collapses all 15:26 together so we see a similar thing with neurons 15:33 with their networks in which they fire in so I feel the sand metaphor it's very 15:42 useful but it also has a bit of issues 15:47 uh because it doesn't really explain well how the grains of sand are neurons 15:54 firing together in a network so um what what we see with uh 16:02 what we see when you see something or when anything occurs in neuron 16:08 Networks is that we start to see a bit of stimuli 16:14 going in like the uh addition of sand grains and at a certain point it they 16:22 begin to organize themselves like a pile of sand 16:28 and then they reach a critical point where 16:33 any further stimuli actually disrupts the order and either makes it collapse 16:39 or makes it uh May or makes it change its structure so 16:45 that more variation can enter this is a 16:50 a basic element of neural processing and then there's another element of neural processing 16:56 called small world networks as you can see at the top there's um 17:03 at the top you can see three different diagrams on the left there's a 17:10 there's a network where it's very regular there's no um 17:16 it may look efficient but it re it's really really slow because to get from 17:21 one point to another requires going through a lot of points in this regular 17:27 form if you go to the small world Network in the middle there's some random variation 17:35 added to it that makes it so that it so that there's a point that a signal can 17:43 jump to any uh any location rather quickly and then on the right 17:50 it's just completely random there's no order to it so uh 17:56 if you remove if you remove a node from the regular it 18:02 the system collapse the system is fine the system will not collapse because 18:09 as you can see there's a lot of redundancy same with the small world network but with the random one you just 18:19 you'll just see that many paths just completely break down 18:24 so this small world network with a little bit of uh a little bit of 18:29 variation is something that is the optimum one or 18:36 processing and we see this in neural systems too uh increasing small 18:44 worldedness in uh neural networks is associated with them performing better 18:49 and we can see also that because they 18:54 dynamically changed when they move towards small worldliness 19:00 they tend to be performing best and 19:05 the critical slope and the small worldliness interact with 19:10 each other small world networks are the optimum wiring whereas 19:16 self-organizing criticality is the optimum firing and these together 19:22 are what creates consciousness at least Consciousness in the sense of 19:29 the observable phenomena that humans and other animals have 19:36 we are going to cover the metaphysical nature of Consciousness later 19:42 we see similar phenomena occurring across all sorts of different networks 19:48 including the internet and the economy 19:54 we see this phenomenon as seemingly a universal aspect of 20:02 complex systems so it's not just limited 20:07 to human brains or animal brains economic crises and recessions may very 20:14 well be self-organizing criticality collapsing and the same could be said about 20:21 civilizational collapses too this is a very generalizable model of 20:28 all complex systems now let's move on to the metaphysical origins of 20:34 consciousness so we have an experience of the world that 20:41 is always fundamentally through our brains either our sense data or our thoughts 20:49 either way we are perceiving it through our minds and through our physical brains if we 20:57 describe it that way so the the intuitive way to uh explain it is to 21:06 say that essentially matter is conscious and as a result we are conscious because 21:15 our brains are a specific organizational form of consciousness 21:21 this is uh somewhat explanatory but it doesn't really provide many 21:30 interesting insights it doesn't explain why it is that 21:36 somebody might be more conscious in certain situations than other situations it doesn't explain 21:43 why it is that uh say a human may be more conscious than a rock with the same 21:49 amount of mass what's more insightful is to realize 21:55 that we do observe higher and lower levels of consciousness 22:02 we can uh observe it probably easiest by uh 22:08 comparing people who are asleep or people who are in comas to people who 22:14 are awake and conscious but there are other situations that we 22:21 can also say are examples of people being more conscious and 22:28 people tend to do things unconsciously as we'll often say when 22:34 they do things automatically without thinking about them and when people have certain large insights 22:41 we will often describe them as being more conscious or more aware 22:47 and when people are having mystical experiences or psychedelic experiences 22:53 are similar they often report themselves as being more conscious in those 22:59 experiences than they were in other experiences 23:04 so what we will want to do for a more 23:09 compelling and applicable Theory Of Consciousness is to look at those particular events 23:17 what we see when comparing unconsciousness with consciousness and lower Consciousness with higher 23:24 Consciousness is that there is more self-organized criticality and there's 23:30 more small world networks this is a much more compelling idea than just the world 23:39 is conscious it for instance allows us to potentially 23:44 make somebody or something more conscious so it was something that makes people 23:51 more conscious look like well it would have to be something that gives people new sensory experiences and 24:01 connects them together in ways that they might not otherwise have this would be 24:07 at least on the phenomenal side what it would be like it on the procedural side 24:14 it would do a similar thing it would want to uh teach people lots of new skills and have 24:21 them practice them alongside other skills 24:26 and finally on the propositional side you'd 24:31 want something that would connect different ideas together across many 24:38 different domains this would be something that is essentially connecting all of them 24:44 together and so there is an institution that does all 24:51 these things and that is religion 24:56 this isn't just baseless speculation too it's actually linked to the origin of 25:02 the word religion which comes from the Latin word religio which means to bind 25:10 to religion can make us more conscious on a 25:15 phenomenal level with mystical experiences it can make us more 25:21 conscious on a pro on a procedural level by rituals and it can make us more 25:30 conscious on a propositional level by Theology and philosophy that links 25:37 everything together for an example of an implementation of this look at the diagram on the screen 25:44 this shows how I apply the concept of alpha Lambda omega as I explained 25:51 earlier in this video adds a kind of General tripartite myth that can be applied to 26:00 anything and everything so it creates 26:08 connections between different different areas that otherwise may not be present 26:15 and so it makes it so that your epistemology becomes more small worlded 26:22 intelligence is capable of very easily undoing itself in ways that 26:30 many people don't realize or don't realize that they 26:36 are a product of intelligence for example if you are smart enough you 26:43 can very easily convince yourself that certain things 26:49 are true that are just downright incompatible with the way the world 26:56 actually is and render yourself unable to live in the world 27:03 this is something that John vervaki calls domicide 27:09 you can also figure out ways to focus on something 27:15 very very hard and do so at the expense 27:21 of uh other more important things examples could include drug addiction 27:29 and this process that this is called parasitic processing and reciprocal 27:35 narrowing you can also trap yourself within 27:41 certain Notions of your own being and who you are 27:47 and then manage to keep yourself from actually doing anything there are all 27:55 sorts of ways that our intelligence when it is used badly can be a liability to 28:03 us rather than an advantage and this is something that religion has 28:11 a lot of potential to solve and I believe this is the reason why religion 28:17 evolved in the first place because us humans have a very large amount of 28:23 intelligence that can be a big threat to us by contrast say a b doesn't have 28:32 nearly as much of a threat so a b doesn't need to have religion 28:39 in addition to the other benefits of religion that I mentioned earlier 28:46 with these benefits of religion and many possible more ones such as organizing 28:52 thoughts it raises a question of why it is that 28:58 religion is declining 29:03 so what I think seems to be the most probable explanation for it is that 29:10 religion gets tied in with uh institutions or specifically it gets 29:17 tied in with rigid political institutions and Power 29:23 and with that in place it makes it so that religion becomes a lot 29:30 a lot less able to adapt to uh to new circumstances and well 29:37 we are in a situation and have been for about 500 years at least of 29:44 very rapidly changing circumstances with the Scientific Revolution and uh and 29:51 many other things so this is something that 29:58 I believe is likely a general thing of all civilizations have these problems 30:07 all civilizations will essentially have religion 30:13 become tied in with rigid undemocratic 30:19 systems of power and then as the societies modernize then 30:25 religion begins to decline because religion can't keep up with all 30:31 the new scientific theories that it would have to incorporate and so this 30:39 then raises a potential red flag 30:45 as societies grow more complex they start to lose religion but as they grow 30:50 complex they start to need religion more to deal with the psychological issues 30:57 resulting from this complexity this is a potentially very very bad 31:05 State of Affairs because it means that not only has this been happening but 31:14 Trends look like this is going to continue to happen 31:19 aside from a brief blip at the beginning of the pandemic religion is on a decline 31:25 there's a bit of a uh increased academic interest in Buddhism and mindfulness 31:31 right now but this doesn't seem to be in any meaningful way applying towards the 31:38 actual implementation of it in society so what if we increase the intelligence 31:46 of a person a thousand folder without giving them any kind of 31:53 spiritual discipline or strategies for dealing with this increase in 31:58 intelligence that would be potentially an absolute disaster for the person but based upon 32:06 what I've we've seen in our civilization it seems like it's very very unlikely 32:14 for somebody in that kind of situation to be given the right tools 32:20 and this would be even more so for AI that are made with this intelligence 32:27 level of which many people might not even conceivably imagine might have a 32:34 kind of need for religion it's very plausible that this could be something that universally happens 32:43 across all civilizations on all planets that ever emerge 32:51 the biggest concern that arises from this idea is that we may very well be in 32:59 a universe where the most powerful entities in the universe are also the 33:06 most insane and the most self-destructive that could be very very hazardous and 33:16 make the universe a much more hostile place to life than one may think 33:22 it could easily be the reason why it is that we are not seeing other 33:30 civilizations on other planets that perhaps they have augmented their 33:38 intelligence or created very powerful AI that didn't have behavioral controls and 33:46 then wiped both themselves and the rest of their civilizations out due to uh due to 33:55 reasons such as say uh anger or uh 34:01 antenatalism or any other countless reasons the reason 34:07 itself doesn't actually matter that much because what matters is the fact that 34:14 the reasons will be selected for in a certain way in people's thoughts 34:21 if you want to see more of my videos building on this then subscribe and if 34:27 you want to see how it is that I came to these conclusions then click the 34:33 recommended video on reacting to the meaning crisis it goes 34:39 through my series of reacting to John raviki

Networks
Self organizing criticality and small world networks

Self sabotage
Introduce Nine plagues but only briefly.

Religion

How self sabotage happens

How religion stops it

three orders


 * narrative order
 * nomological order
 * normative order

How propositional imperialism leads to greater self sabotage

Origin of life
Brief interlude in panspermia

Explain panpsychist consciousness

Recommendation at the end
Recommend people watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzlX6ueKgfg&list=PLM3v2nl0P_5KTXEXVB1evg8c8fhum5Pdm at the end of the video

Do this because it puts people in a 50 video potential path

Part 1 Phenomenology
20 minutes or so

Knowledge starts with phenomena. Starting with propositions is a mistake

This is a practical theory of everything designed to work in working memory

Establish the tripartite epistemology

Relate epistemology to the bioeconomy

Part 2 Ethics
Introduce game theory, infinite games, and ethics

Introduce religion as a means to conserve cognitive resources

Combinatorial explosion in ethics

History
History of secularization and how it relates to cognitive advancements and how dangerous it is