The only thing you can truly be sure of is the reality of your own subjective experiences at this very moment. Everything else is questionable.
The explanatory power of science has exploded, and with it humanity’s capacity to manipulate reality. The emergence of science is a story of how the human mind gained intimate knowledge of the workings of the universe and how this expertise gave us one of the greatest gifts: the fruits of technology.
We are minds incarnated in flesh, able to discover and create science, enabling us to manipulate and engineer reality at will. How can that which is closest to us be so elusive? Why don’t we understand the nature of consciousness?
Finally, the human mind faces its own nature. By extending the information-theoretic paradigm, the informational nature of consciousness is uncovered. This gives rise to the very first formal description of consciousness.
Consciousness is a truly puzzling phenomenon. For one, my own consciousness is the only element of existence I am personally aware of. Through the flow of subjective experiences I perceive an external reality and myself demarcated from it.
The seemingly isolated phenomenon of consciousness reemerges within the structure of the cosmos itself.
In a global environment where ignorance, myopia, denial, cynicism, indifference, callousness, alienation, disenchantment, and superficiality reign it is not surprising to witness people escaping this angst short-term by distracting consumerism and numbing materialism overall.
What would happen if we would replace these obviously dysfunctional foundational stories that we have been telling our children? What if we, as a species, agreed to convey ideas to the next generation which do not simply depend on the geographic location of birth but represent something more functional, universal, and unifying?
I believe in the computational engine of the universe—reality’s information-theoretic ontology. I believe that consciousness shares the same innate essence as the “material.” I believe in the capacity of consciousness to influence reality—reality’s participatory ontology. I believe in the entelechy of existence and its teleological arrow striving for ever higher levels of information processing. I am mesmerized by the reality-topology of the transcendental multiverse. But perhaps most importantly, “I give meaning to the reality I create.” This translates into an ethical maxim: “I am fully accountable!”