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Metaphysical Manifesto

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      1. The soul is nothing but a source of consciousness with limited memory; it neither has human characteristics nor free-will;
      2. We are equal;
      3. The body is a perfect machine that can automatically respond to all stimuli, according to the probabilistic model embedded in its genetic code;
      4. While dreaming, the brain creates a new cosmos and allows our soul to transmigrate into a new body, in this new cosmos;
      5. Brains are creators;
      6. The soul assumes the memory of its new body, which causes us to falsely feel as if we have never left that body;
      7. Brains do not only allow our souls to be conscious but they also create the cosmos that the soul is conscious of;
      8. The geometric shape called Klein-bottle (in the picture below) is an analogy of this situation;
      9. There is no distinction between dream and reality; they are both Alternative Life Experiences (ALEs);
      10. We remember our past ALEs in the form of vague dreams;
      11. Our past ALEs may differ from our current ALE (assumed reality) with respect to 3 main parameters: perspective (the set of eyes through which we “dream”), time (past, present, future) and norms (the laws of physics and logic that govern the “dream”)
      12. There are 7 types of ALEs:

        PERSPECTIVE

        TIME

        NORMS

        S*

        S

        S

        S

        D**

        S

        S

        D

        D

        D

        S

        S

        D

        S

        D

        D

        D

        S

        D

        D

        D

        *S for Same     **D for Different

      13. Some “dreams” become “reality” (Dream Deja Vu); an SDS-type ALE that is governed by the current norms, that takes place in the future and that we experience through our current perspective may be able to shed light on our future;
      14. Dream Deja Vus have in fact been lived before;
      15. Biological death is a deep form of sleep that allows us to dream;
      16.  We are immortal.

Klein Bottle image taken from http://www.math.brown.edu

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Author: bilgincan

Murat Can Bilgincan is a Turkish journalist and filmmaker who has worked for CNN and on PBS' "Frontline." Bilgincan holds a bachelor's degree from Yale College and a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School. He teaches an independent journalism seminar at Koc University in Istanbul.

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