Hmmm…. now how do you go about writing something like this. It should be like the biggest and most complicated thing ever. But I would not write about it if that would be the case, here I am and that is because it is the simplest thing ever. Let me try to explain you my “theory of everything”, in a bit of a patterned form, I won’t go into details but the answer can be found in this article, cause I really would like you to think about this in your own terms.
There is this old song that has been completely forgotten, probably because it is too cheesy for today’s standards (no, it’s not a Manowar song). The lyrics of this song go something like this:
There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done.
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It’s easy.
There’s nothing you can make that can’t be made.
No one you can save that can’t be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time
It’s easy.
Now what did the author have in mind? Or better to say, what state of mind was he in to write such a thing? Everything is easy? Yes it is.
I had this theory for a long time now with me but lately it had clarified in a way that I connected all other theories of mine in an elegant manner. This is why I call it the theory of everything. I had a conversation recently with a friend. We were talking about finding solutions to life dilemmas. He told me his answer to this problem and it astonished me because it was precisely the thing I had in my mind for some time now. Separately we came to the same conclusions.
I’m happy that this theory is rational, so you can think about it in logical terms and it makes sense, if you like that. This is how it goes:
What do we see in the universe? Everywhere we look at there are certain structures and patterns. These structures are formed by a set of laws or maybe just one law.
We see atoms joining together. We see many atoms joining to form matter. We see matter joining together forming planets and stars. On these planets we see many chemical processes. One of these processes on the planet earth is called life. There are certain chemical structures like amino acids which have a property that makes them join with other amino acids forming proteins. Forming DNA, forming all the life forms we see around, including you. The universe seems very complicated but if you look closely everything is in fact doing the same.
Let’s examine a theory like the Big Bang. Once upon a time there was a gigantic explosion. All sorts of particles came to existence and started flying everywhere randomly. Now out of this chaos certain elements formed like hydrogen. These elements then formed more complex matter. They formed planets, stars, eventually life etc. etc. It is a process going on, since the beginning of time and it is going on at this very moment everywhere.
Now a lot of people will try to explain this by randomness (everything like the forming of planets or evolution of life is random). I don’t believe in randomness. It is just a way to be ignorant. If you don’t know much about something you call it random. There is a certain theory called Chaos Theory, which is called by some smart people just Unpredicted Order.
Imagine you are shooting at a target, a bullseye on a wall. You shoot randomly at the target. If you shoot at it 10-50 times or so, it will seem like a random set of dots formed around the target. But if you shoot 100000 shots suddenly a pattern will emerge. There will be a giant black hole where the target was (I assume you’re not a good shooter). So what seemed random was just an unpredicted order around the bullseye.
It is like this with everything in the universe. The more closely we look, the more we see the same patterns. The same laws governing everything. Notice that everything in the universe is:
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Coming together
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Evolving towards more and more organized structures (elemental particles, matter, fauna, flora, humans…)
I think it is obvious that something is going on here. There is like a universal Law that tells everything in the universe to become part of something else and to evolve in that way. Everything wants to join with something else and become something more. So the question is, what is the unpredicted order of the universe, life and everything? In other words – where are we heading towards?
There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.
Nothing you can see that isn’t shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.
It’s easy.
I don’t know. But I do know what I personally want from life. I might be a really weird person, because I like to feel good. Most people on this planet actively seek out ways to make themselves unhappy, stressed, worried and feel bad about everything. I want to feel good. Why not. So how do you do this?
It’s easy.
You just have to understand this theory of everything. Let’s get back to what is happening here, right now, in this universe, life…. it is a PROCESS.
Now you have a choice. You can either join this process, you can ignore it, or go against it. From my experience this choice will determine the level of your well-being. What I found out is that when you realize what is your role in this process and you go with that, you join it and you follow it, your life will become astonishingly simple, you will stop asking stupid questions (like for the meaning of it all) and just enjoy the ride.
I sort of knew this for a long time, but the hard part for me was knowing what part of this process should I become? I know many people have problems with this too. If you don’t know this you’ll have unanswered questions like: what do you want to do in life? What is YOUR purpose of living? And so on.
So how do you establish your role?
As always the answer is written everywhere for all to see, but nobody looks. I won’t write what it is, cause if I write it, you’ll just say “oh yeah that sure, obvious pff…”, you’ll click the X button on the top right and forget about the whole thing. But it is so fucken IMPORTANT!!!
Let me guide you and you’ll answer yourself (and please don’t think about this in the way everybody is conditioned to think about it, it does not have anything to do with what society and TV tells you what it is, just connect it with an understanding of evolution in our cosmos and you’ll see what it really is and that it is and always was a part of you).
What is the one human emotion or feeling that does the exact same thing as the whole universe does?
What is the universe doing and what you can feel in yourself, that will make you do the same things – come together and evolve?
It’s easy…
Very interesting and yes it’s quite similar indeed, although you’re right, your theory of everything is a lot simpler as the final part of the text shows.
“Now a lot of people will try to explain this by randomness (everything like the forming of planets or evolution of life is random). ”
It’s nitpicking, but the evolution of life is anything but random (not quite random because it’s controlled by ‘natural selection’ and all that influences thát, I think Unpredicted Order is pretty accurate there. ). In the grand scheme of things I do understand what you’re saying though and you are right, there’s probably no such thing as randomness.
My problem wasent to find what I wanted. I knew what it was since when I was 12 year old. What was missing is that I needed to make some action’s so it can be accomplish. This is what I figured out a couple of week ago and since then I found life more peacfull, more easy, I felt good (not that it wasent the case before
) but I felt even better. All was clear to me.
I know I still have thing’s to learn thought.
LOVE!
Compassion?
You know, i kinda don’t fell any love at all, except for my family and one very dear friend.
Also, i’m no too much of joining groups, but when it’s about helping somebody, i can’t be helped….i guessed that this is why i tought ou compassion… but maybe i’m completely wrong, i’ll think about it tomorrow, when i’m working on my very busy job: Sit and watch receipts… LoL
Sorry MM, but the Beatles are incredibly far from completely forgotten 😀
The Beatles are overrated.
love is a part of the life process, but also hate, pain and concurrency. The aim is to “come together” like you said, but this also implies not to be happy again and again. So you have to accept that.
There are (also) three brain parts that are always in concurrency when you decide something: the rational part, the part that want fairness and group affiliation and a part that mekes you feel “pain”.
What you will do? Give up your independent work with the aim to come together? 😉
“What is the one human emotion or feeling that does the exact same thing as the whole universe does?”
I won’t even go into how silly this is.
“There are (also) three brain parts that are always in concurrency when you decide something: the rational part, the part that wants fairness and group affiliation and a part that makes you feel “pain”.”
One has to wonder what you base this “rule” on. You know, on account of it’s obvious disparity with real life data.
Awesome, more please!
I like the way you write your articles. It’s simplified to the point where it’s not too stupid and not too pompous & unnecessary. Cough.
“I like the way you write your articles. It’s simplified to the point where it’s not too stupid and not too pompous & unnecessary. Cough.”
Any idea, from quantum physics to relativity and neuroscience can be portrayed simplistically, so that every one can grasp it. This ought to be the norm.
But these articles are filled with half truths and vague definitions. Don’t accept something as correct simply because someone you know wrote it. Consider it critically and see if there are any holes in the theory. Only then are you helping them.
André:
[…]please don’t think about this in the way everybody is conditioned to think about it, it does not have anything to do with what society and TV tells you what it is, just connect it with an understanding of evolution in our cosmos and you’ll see what it really is and that it is and always was a part of you
yv3: The aim is to “come together” like you said, but this also implies not to be happy again and again
Why not?
Jared: haha, let’s see if somebody else remembers them 😀
[q][i]Evolving towards more and more organized structures (elemental particles, matter, fauna, flora, humans…)[/i][/q]
I won’t agree with that. In my opinion everything in universe is evolving towards more and more stable structures. More organized structures are often also more stable – but not always. Sometimes more organized things like particles are changing into less complitated creations. In example think about particles with number of nucleons over 83 – they will split into simpler [but more stable] atoms.
PS. Sorry for my errors, I’m not the best in english
PS2. Great blog ;] I’m big fan of all posts about gamedev, can you write something ’bout how you began your career?
Everything is easy?
Nothing is easy as well, but it can be just as hard.
It is like this with everything in the universe. The more closely we look, the more we see the same patterns.
The patterns are forces trying to balance themselves out.
What is the one human emotion or feeling that does the exact same thing as the whole universe does?
yv3: The aim is to “come together” like you said, but this also implies not to be happy again and again
Why not?
empathy is what brings us together.
So does gravity in a cosmic way.
As well as Yin-Yang as a religious term.
There is a certain theory called Chaos Theory, which is called by some smart people just Unpredicted Order.
Unpredicted Order sounds smarter
Everything starts at an equilibrium unfortunately outside stimulus disrupts it, but For every action there is an equal/opposite reaction, so the natural way of things is to balance itself out.
Now you have a choice. You can either join this process, you can ignore it, or go against it. From my experience this choice will determine the level of your well-being.
Going against the process and staying happy requires lots of confidence.I’m trying to do it because the way i grew up made me crappy, trying to unlearn it takes perseverance, but Everything has its place. its when you become ignorant to your basic feelings, you run against the current of life.
I don’t know. But I do know what I personally want from life. I might be a really weird person, because I like to feel good. Most people on this planet actively seek out ways to make themselves unhappy, stressed, worried and feel bad about everything. I want to feel good. Why not. So how do you do this?
Many people cannot follow their dreams unlike you
wth? i don’t even watch tv? -.-
but ok, i’ve been thinking and i’m not just understanding so i’ll leave it written somewhere, who knows one day i’ll figure it out… or simply throw it away
MM, I immediately thought of LOVE while reading through this. Too bad you made it so easy and kinda confirmed it at the end.
Love is the universal law that inhabits (or is) _everything_ that exists. This law is what you can call “god” (even though I don’t like to use the word at all because – thanks to religions – it always makes me think of an authority/person above all), and that is why everything and everyone _is_ god – it is not separate, it is all one. Like MM said, “we are in this war together”.
And yes, it’s easy. Remember what I said on IRC a while ago? Keep life simple, and what you describe is exactly what I meant.
MM, when I read “just enjoy the ride” I wondered if you thought of a song while writing this – did you?
Also, do you know Bill Hicks? I think his message fits very well to your article: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q95kX_EP2Nk
Enjoy the ride, because it’s just a ride.
Finally I have to say that for me this is the best article from you ever. Few words with so much deep meaning. It’s easy.
Keep it up.
Your brain simpy wants to see process and “unpredicted” order. Because to act we need references. We need that to survive. We have the brains we need to survive.
Perhaps no structure exists, perhaps you are seeing an illusion. The process is a way your brain need to act out there out of inside you.
No structures. Chaos. The only law I can undestand is the law of no law. All must begin there. All laws from no law.
Love had not won. Neither two thosand years ago.
We progress because of technichal knowledge. It’s a limited way but secure.
I’ll give you my honest opinion: That was boring as hell.
The human mind is good ad seeing patterns. So good in fact, it sees patterns where there aren’t any.
The universe does not evolve towards a more complicated form, but to a more uniform one. That’s caled enthropy. Every atom wishes to be no more and no less excited, no slower or faster, no warmer or cooler than those around it. In it’s extreme form, enthropy leads to the heat death of the universe, where each planet eventually turns into a perfectly spherical monolyth. On a molecular level, the universe is heading towards enthropy.
Don’t believe me?
Take the most beautiful things you can imagine and grind them into dust – sterilize them and add water, and put, say, somewhere on Mars. If your theory is correct, something should come out of it. But it won’t.
There’s this thing that goes against enthropy however, and it’s life. While the occurence of life is a very rare thing – we know only of one such case – life refuses enthropy. But life could not evolve or spread without reproduction. The multiplication of life out of raw and lifeless materials. “Reproduction of living organisms” doesn’t sound as good as “love”, but I think it’s much more accurate than that. And what’s more, this “law” doesn’t cover the whole universe – not even our whole galaxy, just our little planet, with merely traces of it outside.
Firez : yes you are right. I chose a bad word. “Stabilizing” reflects much better what I wanted to say and is more closer to what is happening.
$able: thanks man. It’s easy once you get rid of the social and cultural meanings of words like god and love and seek for your own. I love Bill Hicks, he was one of the few that understood this, you also gotta love the way in which he brought the message out there:)
Tallacaps: that is true, our brains work in this way, finding meaning and order everywhere. But what difference does it make if this order is inner or outer? The thing that I’m interested in is what makes me feel good. This is not a theory that produces something of technological value.
archont: life would not exist if planets would not form. One process is not different than the other, it’s a sequence. Life is following the same rules. The “Selfish gene” book is a good introduction to understanding the chemistry of it all.
I can take something and destroy it just for the sake of it. We have free will. Maybe it will seem nothing came out of it but how will that decision be reflected in a million years?
Oh and don’t think that destroying something is going against this law. Look at the gif animation above. It’s like solving a rubik cube, you must destroy certain patterns to form more patterns and eventually solve the puzzle.
Haha, sex and destruction (together meaning rape) are the solutions for a good life. *laugh* . But I do agree with the “staying together” thing…although I think it has less to do with the structure of the universe than you say.
And people can also be happy with their lives without obeying their animalic wishes… there are priests that live their whole life without sex and with just little contact to other people, instead they meditate a lot. Hmmm… although, if i think about it, im not quite certain if their really happy or just dont know how miserable they are…
Anyway… if you were right in your universe = human life theory, then it would mean that a man would be more happy with every child he gets and every woman he f****, and we would pray on sex all the time… cuz that’s what nature asks us to do, procreate… still… this is not all there is to life…
Cosmin: You are rationalyzing too much. You are thinking what nature wants from you, but how do you know that? How do you know it only wants you to have sex?
From what I know nature is interested in the continuation of life. What if you have no children but instead invent a medicine that will allow people to fight deceases so more people will live thanks to you?
From what I know nature is interested in the continuation of life. What if you have no children but instead invent a medicine that will allow people to fight deceases so more people will live thanks to you?
Then you still won’t be able to get laid, the difference being you’ll have much more women saying you’re “friends only” than should you invent nothing new at all.
…thus still not being happy with your life, although you did it all by the Marcinkowski book.
“How do you know it only wants you to have sex?”
True, having sex isn’t the only thing you’re biologically programmed to do.
“From what I know nature is interested in the continuation of life.”
The universe isn’t “interested” in anything. Being interested is a characteristic of a small subset of living species.
“Then you still won’t be able to get laid”
Michal’s point is, you can influence other people’s lives even without offspring of your own. Oh, and having no children certainly doesn’t mean you don’t get laid.
DUDE, he was joking, easen up.
partypooper!
MM – “There is this old song that has been completely forgotten, probably because it is too cheesy for today’s standards”
What the hell are you smoking? Everybody knows the Beatles! Especially that song – its probably the MOST well known.
And too cheesy for today? Try turning on the radio, my friend. 😉
XD bwahahahaha, partypooper. HAHAHAHAHA.
Now to a different issue (yes Michal, I have nothing better to do):
When’s the next Berserker info coming out?
On the topic of that lamb chop video you posted Michal – the more I listen to it the more I like it. Although I’ve recently been listening mostly to industrial and techno metal ( Turmion Katolot, Kovenant ), true heavy viking metal has found a definite place in my heart.
Kovenant is good. Check out “Runes to my memory” from Amon Amarth – http://youtube.com/watch?v=JFq2YJKYa-k&feature=related
it’s scary that i woke up with this song stuck in my head this morning, but ..
listen carefully to the end of that particular song and you’ll hear
“yeah, yeah, yeah.”
i always interpreted that as sarcastic, but maybe i’m just a cynic.
it’s certainly easy when you’re a pop star…
“all you need is love”
“he come on flat top. he come on grovin’ it up up slowly, he got jew-jew eyeball, he want holly roller”
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Thing is — everything is great, it’s me that’s on top of it, being — the greatest.
I want to be different.