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Author: [[Thomas Campbell]] Full Title: My Big Toe Category: #books Inner Space, the Final Frontier Perhaps, with an open-minded approach, scientists and philosophers could find a bigger picture that contains a logical solution that answers to a higher-level (more general superset) of objective causality. Unfortunately, it is easier and more immediately rewarding to decree the impossibility of difficult to understand solutions, or posit belief-based pseudo-solutions, than to live with the nagging uncertainty that is required to find real solutions through better science. Trying to solidly grasp what lies beyond your experiential reach is what pulls you up by your bootstraps, but overreaching coupled with high expectations will lead to more frustration than progress. 4. In NPMRN, the goal for each sentient being is to learn, grow, and evolve through interaction (making choices) with others: The intent driving our choices can range from good to evil. We make free will choices in the process of interacting with other sentient beings, and the quality of these choices alters the entropy of our consciousness through a self-modifying feedback system. Personal growth is required to effect our entropy reducing contribution to the larger consciousness cycle. To optimize entropy loss, one must understand how consciousness evolves under varying conditions. Does all consciousness eventually end up love-like (the optimal result) or exactly the opposite; or does a consciousness system eventually become chaotic or perhaps find some stable equilibrium state in between these extremes? Is it possible to isolate and stabilize the optimal conditions for growing or evolving high quality consciousness, thus optimizing the efficiency of the consciousness cycle? 9. People in PMR who are unaware (or mostly unaware) within NPMR, can use and experience this net if they are connected strongly enough (large enough signal-to-noise) and with enough clear intent (interest) to produce a crosstalk or bleedthrough into their consciousness (typically perceived as intuition or precognitive dreams). Signals come from NPMR with varying amplitudes while an individual produces most of his own interfering noise. Each higher-level of simulation, with its smaller time quantum, represents a larger perspective, a base of authority and control, and collects, processes and synthesizes the activities and results created by its lower level (inner) subordinate simulations. Dynamic timing loops within loops within loops, all interconnected and building one upon the other at various levels of scale. Do you notice the fractal-like characteristics of time loops within your dynamic reality? Do you get a glimmer of how everything is interrelated and interconnected within a generalized dynamic consciousness-evolution fractal ecosystem? Future probabilities are non-binding – things can change

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My Big Toe-2 by Thomas Campbell presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.

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