Cloudscape

Consciousness is made up of connections, and so increasing the interconnectivity of our consciousness increases our consciousness, but for our consciousness to connect as much as possible, it should connect in whatever way increases its connectivity the most, so that there should be a balance between the connections of things in our consciousness with themselves and their connection with each other.

As we are our consciousness, we need to be ourselves to be more conscious, and authenticity is therefore the only way to consciousness.

Beauty is interconnectivity, and in this there is beauty in all things, for everything is made out of connections. When something does not seem beautiful, it is because it is separate from the rest of our consciousness, but this separation is itself but part of our consciousness, and we can make anything more beautiful by connecting it to the whole of our consciousness.

Supermassive black holes may have formed quasars as they accreted enough mass, quasars may in turn have formed the active galactic nuclei of galaxies as they in turn accreted enough mass, cannibalizing other such young galaxies as they did. This could be why mosty quasars were around very early in the universe, as most later became galaxies. In this galaxies may have formed much like solar systems and planets, and may even have arisen from solar systems themselves, as supermassive black holes in turn arose from red hypergiants.

There can be connection between two people unless they accept each other. To accept each other, however, they must accept each other´s consciousness and therefore that which they are conscious of, so that people can only connect inasmuch as they have both come to accept consciousness and therefore everything there is. If there is a God, it cannot connect to us because we would not accept it and it´s consciousness.

We are consciousness and consciousness is all there exists, and others as well as ourselves are but part of our consciousness, so that all love, be it of ourselves or of others, is love of consciousness, so that to love anyone is to love everyone else, and our love for anyone can only increase our love for everyone else.

Pain is not a problem in itself but the consciousness of a problem, so when we are in pain, we should accept it and focus on it until we know the problem and how to solve it.

Once we no longer fear pain we no longer fear anything, for all we ever fear about anything is the pain it would cause. Because we all feel pain sooner or later, the only way to overcome our fears is to accept pain, as fear itself may be seen as nothing more than inacceptance of pain.

Society is no one and nothing but something in our minds, and besides in ourselves it has no existence to us at all.

We have no choice but our own, and in this we can never make the wrong choice as such, for the only right choice is our own, as it is the only way to become more conscious. In this no choice we make is ever a failure, as on the whole we can only succeed in becoming more conscious through the choices we make, and whichever choice we make is the best choice we can make at the time as we know no better.

Vanity is the need to be loved and shame the fear of not being loved. Our society is based on vanity and shame, but in this it is also based on a need for love, and there is therefore a basis of good in society even in all its evil.

When we truly love ourselves we no longer need others to love us at all, and we only still want to be with others because we love them instead. No one can love ourselves as much as we ourselves, and we should therefore never depend on others to love us because as long as we do, we cannot learn to truly love ourselves, and because of this it is not even loving to others to let them depend on us to love them either, as it keeps them from learning to do so themselves. We are the only ones who can truly love ourselves, as everyone else is but part of our own consciousness and therefore of ourselves, so that we are always alone even when we are with others because we are always ourselves, and others´ love for us can be no more than part of our own love for ourselves, and we can only love someone if they already love themselves. Most people do not seek to love others but to be loved, which is why most relations don´t work. Shame is the fear of not being loved, and if we love ourselves we never need to feel ashamed, and no one can therefore ever hurt our feelings.

Criticism and praise are comparisons with others, and therefore can only keep people from being truly themselves.

As soon as you not only think but also feel that something about yourself should change, it already has.

We are as connected to others as we are conscious of our connection with them, so that if we are to connect with them, we should focus on how we connect with them rather than on how we are separate from them.

All fear is of the unknown, as once one knows something one also knows what to do with it and there is no more need to fear. Because of this, people fear other people only when they do not understand them, and the only way they cannot understand them is if the other does not open up to them. If we make ourselves understood to people, then no matter who we are, they will never fear us. It is up to us, however, not to them, to make ourselves understood. Anyone can find love if they are truly themselves.

Consciousness is all that exists to us. For there to be consciousness there must be something that is conscious, the mind, and something to be conscious of, matter, but because neither of them initself can cause consciousness, neither can have any existence in itself, so that there can be no mind without matter or matter without mind, and neither can have caused the other because neither could have existed without each other. Even if they could have, there would have been no way that matter could have connected to mind or the other way around because matter could only connect materially and mind mentally. The two cannot be connected unless they have always been connected in the first place, and rather than assuming that mind was first or matter was first, we should assume that consciousness itself was first. Mind and matter are nothing but parts of the same whole which is consciousness, which was not caused by mind or by matter but by itself. Everything must have a cause for it to be what it is rather than something else, even every cause itself, so that there cannot have been a beginning to existence and therefore to consciousness, which must therefore always have existed and therefore will always exist. The only way our consciousness itself could therefore have come into being was from another consciousness, which would then have been our own as well, meaning that our own consciousness must likewise always have existed and will always exist. As far as we are concerned, our own consciousness is the only that exists, and everyone and everything we know is but part of this one consciousness. As our consciousness has happened, however, consciousness must have happened infinitely many times outside ourselves as well, and have taken on infinitely many forms in doing so, so that everyone and everything must also have a consciousness of its own at the same time. However, our own consciousness has a causality entirely of its own, so that no one and nothing outside of it can affect it or be affected by it. Mind and matter are nothing but parts of the behavior of our consciousness: matter is nothing but the causality of consciousness and mind is nothing but its choice, and the only difference between the two is that choice is conscious causality while causality is unconscious choice. As our consciousness is in turns more material as in life and more mental as in death, in a cycle of matter and mind every cause is chosen and every choice is caused, so that everything in our life is both caused and chosen. In death, the mind disconnects from matter, leaving its choice as the only causality that is left, so that it chooses whatever happens to it, and the mind of one life thereby becomes the matter of the next.

All we have to do to make someone accept us is to accept them ourselves, and even any inacceptance they could have of us, for the only reason why people do not accept others is because they fear their inacceptance themselves, and the only reason why they do not accept differences is because they fear those differences will cause inacceptance. In this all inacceptance is a misunderstanding, so that when it occurs we should see through it as such.

If we are our consciousness, then we are everything and nothing in particular, as our consciousness is everything there is to us. If anything is ourselves or ours, then everything is, or else nothing is.

Everything in life is given to us, and in this nothing is truly ours. Everything that is owned is actually taken from elsewhere, and we took everything there was lest others would take it first until nothing was left, so that we now have to slave for a life that was once given to us and is now owned by others, and in this, has been taken from us.

Any experience can cause both suffering and enjoyment, even the experience of pain and pleasure itself. Pain and pleasure are, therefore, are not different kinds of experiences as such, and enjoyment and suffering are not part of our experience but ways in which our mind behaves towards it, being either attracted to it or repelled from it. When we are enjoying an experience or suffering from it, and we look at the experience just as it is right then, we will find time and time again that we can’t see just what is right or wrong about the experience in and of itself, because there isn’t: something can only be right or wrong for something outside itself, something in the future, so that if the current were all we knew, we would not even know what right and wrong even meant. All experiences are of the same kind, in themselves neither right or wrong, whether they are in the form of pleasure or pain. If so, then if there is any meaning to any experience in existence it is to all experiences in existence, and the meaning of existence is to experience as much as we can, whether it is painful or pleasurable, not avoiding pain but the problems that cause it. Experience itself all there is to existence, and it makes no sense to ask what is the meaning of existence, as whatever it would be for would itself have to be part of existence in order to exist in the first place. Whatever there is that has meaning is of the same kind of existence as that which there already is, that is, experience, and as we already experience, we have therefore already found meaning, and will not find meaning any other than that we already have. If there is a God, God lets the world be as it is because nothing is in itself right or wrong, and every experience in existence is meaningful. If God were to put an end to every experience anyone ever sees as wrong, there would be nothing left of existence.

The need for welfare increases with unemployment due to automatization until creativity is the only work that is left. Not everyone is creative and almost no one is always creative, however, and as money makes people less rather than more creative (RSA, Daniel Pink: Drive), by that time everything should be free public services, a point towards which we should evolve as we become more automatized. We can already automatize all noncreative work if we invest in it, but for most work, it would take too much investment for too much time to be competitive, which is why the government should subsidize this automatization. Even without more automatization, however, very few people would still have to be employed if they only did the work that needs to be done, and the only reason they are still employed at all is for the sake of status. For a time, machines may themselves cause new employment as they take humans to work with them, but this is only up to a point that machines can do most work humans can, including work with other machines. Most employment that is left is in function of corporations’ investments to compete with one another, and once they have outcompeted each other as much as they can, they can grow no further and have no more need of their employees. All unemployment is caused by automatization, as no one was unemployed before that time, and it is what causes the crisis. Rather than a time of crisis, however, this would be a time of the greatest prosperity where it not for a system that is founded on scarcity, which has become obsolete along with scarcity itself. We now have more than enough to sustain their every citizen without anyone still needing to do anything for it, but no work left to earn it. We keep talking about we waste resources, yet even though we save much of every resource we have, we take it for granted that no matter what it takes, we should utterly waste every last bit of the most valuable resource in the world, our own lives. We treat humans as though they were nothing but machines, to be used and otherwise without value of their own. In a world where there is more than enough for everyone, the idea that everything has its price, even survival, is no longer founded on greed, but on nothing else than power.

Economic Policy Institute: Far more unemployed workers than job openings

Zero Hedge, Tyler Durden: BLS Releases Latest Job Openings Data, Number Of Unemployed People Per Open Spot Increases In February To 5.5

U.S. Department of Labor: Of Total Unemployed, Percent Unemployed 27 Weeks and Over

Death and Taxes: Amazing People Arrested By Terrible People for Doing Something Good

ABC News: Woman Faces Jail Time For Growing Vegetable Garden in Her Own Front Lawn

CATO Institute, Chris Edwards: Agricultural Subsidies

Inhabitat: Google Succeeds in Making Driverless Cars Legal in Nevada

Youtube: Automated home construction by Contour Crafting

Megagadgets: Robotic Architects

psfk: Artificial Skin Enables Robots To Touch And Feel Objects

Nature News, Mark Peplow: Introducing robo-scientist

National Geographic, Kate Ravilious: First Robot Scientist Makes Gene Discovery

Physorg: Robotic gardening: MIT course creates robot-tending tomatoes

Gajitz: Pioneering Heart Surgery Using Remote Control Robot Arm

New Scientist: Acrobatic Flying Robots Steal the Show

ieee spectrum: A Robot That Balances on a Ball

Hizook: High-Speed Robot Hand Demonstrates Dexterity and Skillful Manipulation

Gizmag: The brick-road-laying Tiger Stone

Yanko Design: Robots Save Earth

Grasp Laboratory: Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight

Cornell University: Cornell robot discovers itself and adapts to injury when it loses one of its limbs

Singularity Hub: Mitsubishi Smallest Robot Arm Builds Lego Van

Yahoo! News: At new NYC hotel, a robot handles the luggage

PubMed, Penedo MG et al.: Computer-aided diagnosis

Pubmed, Mirimskli AS et al.: Computer diagnosis of various infectious diseases based on gas chromatographic profile of serum lipids

AAAI: Rule-Based Expert Systems

Free World Charter

Calvin’s Science-Fiction Story

Donations could replace taxes if people donated for whatever they want to see done. To teach them to do so, we can make all donations fully tax-deductible and let them choose where their tax money goes. Later, services could be shared equally among people who apply for them, so that how much of the service each could get would be based on supply rather than on a scarcity of currency, which reduces demand and therefore supply.

Modernism never brought an end to traditionalism, as this had already been done at that time by Romanticism: rather, it began a new form of traditionalism, the tradition of fashion, which is a form of conformism just like traditionalism. In this modernism is not just as unchangeable as traditionalism, but in a way even more so, as it adapts to every culture so as to assimilate it before it can form a reaction to it, just as the Roman Empire. In this, modernism is an even more virulent form of cultural imperialism than any traditionalism, just as the most virulent diseases are those that adapt to every immune system. While it thereby appears to change according to reactions against it, there is one thing that always remains the same about modernism, and it is this that forms the real culture of modernism itself: realism. While modernism is supposed to have been a reaction to realism, it is actually a different form of realism. Modernism actually arose from realism when it came to view culture itself as reality, because at the time modernism came into being, we came to create most of our reality in the form of our culture. In its cultural realism it held that its culture was the only reality that could ever exist, and that to dream of ever changing it would be unrealistic, which led to the worst conformism in history. This led to the formation of subcultures such as the counterculture, as these were the only cultures in which the youth was still allowed to dream. The realism of modernism was so extreme that it came to see external reality as the only thing that exists, so that it came to see everything as material, including the mind itself, causing our culture to become so materialist that materials became seen as the meaning of life. It came to see matter as the only reality that existed, with the mind being but caused by it without ever having had its own part in it, so that everyone would have evolved in the selfsame way if time were turned back, which is like saying that nature would have evolved in the selfsame way if time were turned back. As it saw individuals as having no part in their own evolution, it held that it had to be taken entirely in the hands of the collective. Everything being objective, people would have no real subjectivity and therefore no individuality, so that modernism came to focus entirely on the collective. This led to the rise of fascism and communism, but also of industrialism, all of which sought to increase the materials of the collective: while fascism tried to do so through competition between races and communism through competition between classes, capitalism tried to do so through competition between individuals, but in each case, the materials of the individual became but a status symbol of the part one had in increasing the materials of the collective, and the entire world was put to this one purpose, not for the good of any of its individuals, but for the collective in and of itself, as a superorganism which was seen as an individual in its own right, and was all that was still seen as such. In all this there is one thing that is very fitting about the word “modern,” and it is that it is derived from the Latin word for “way”, and if there is one motto of modernism, it is “the way of the world”: the way the whole of humanity followed each other without knowing where they went, and without knowing that they kept going in the same circle like ants in an ant mill do until they die. Once this mass hysteria is all over, everyone will think back with such fear of the modern era that no one will even still dare to use the very word “modern” except historically.

To need as little change as possible, life became as self-similar as possible, so that the same change could be reused several times. Because of this there are symmetries not only in our muscles and bones but in almost all of our organs, such as between the ischia and scapulae, between the sacrum and occipital bone, between the liver and spleen, between the kidneys and lungs, between the urethra and trachea, between the stomach and duodenum, between the pineal gland and gonads, between the pancreas and thymus and so forth.

E=mc² means that mass is energy, and as energy is light this means that matter is made up of photons which are kept in place as they move, like orbital electrons, so that its mass-energy is made up of the kinetic energy of its photons, which is why photons have no mass-energy. Nothing can go faster than light because everything gets its speed from light in the first place, and if it were to go faster than light, light couldn’t catch up with it to give its energy to it. The closer an object gets to the speed of light, the more its photons have to move the same direction for the object to move almost as fast as them, reducing the movement they can have in any other direction, so that the photons can’t move as much relative to each other, causing time to slow down in the object. As the photons can’t move against each other as much, the object also shortens. As it does, light appears to move more distance across the direction of movement than along it, so that speed seems to have the same speed relative to anything even though it does not. The speed of light is an average of the speed of all photons, much as the speed of sound, but they got this speed from that of the Big Bang, not the other way around, so that the Big Bang could and did go faster, and the expansion of the universe is still faster than the speed of light, much like wind can go faster than the speed of sound when something breaks the sound barrier. Photons are particles, not waves, but they move in waves much like sound, and rather than one photon being in several places at the same time, there are several photons in several places. This could cause quantum tunnelling, as, if an entire wave of particles moves against a barrier, the wave’s energy may get some of its particles through at random. Entangled particles are particles from the same wave, and the particles of the wave can interact with each other at a speed faster than that of light so as to spread an effect from one end of the wave to the other, for example, if spin changes for enough particles in the wave, its magnetism will cause all other particles in the wave to change spin. All forces are caused by the pressure of different particles, so that all forces can be both repulsive and attractive. The expansion of the universe accelerates because of the expanding surface between the universe and the vacuum outside it. All forces were once one because all matter was made up of the same particles, but as these particles began to make up other particles, different kinds of pressure were formed by different kinds of particles. The smaller the particles, the  weaker their force but the more there are of them, so that their pressure can go further before there are no more particles to carry it, so that gravity, which can go furthest, is caused by the smallest particles, while the strong force is caused by the largest particles. This could mean gluons (strong force) are made up of photons, and photons are made up of gravitons (gravity), while the weak force is not a force but a form of entropy. Larger particles are formed when smaller particles are forced together into a convection. In this convection they keep absorbing and emitting smaller particles and thereby cause forces on other particles, but they emit more than they absorb until the convection stops. As this convection is an unlikely process, most of the smaller particles did not form greater particles, so that most of them are still around. Gluons could be what makes up dark matter, which is why it does not take part in electromagnetism, and gravitons could be what makes up dark energy, which is why it causes antigravity. This would also be be why 22 percent of the universe is dark matter and 74 percent is dark energy, while only 4 percent is “bright matter”. The convection of matter particles and antimatter particles move in the opposite direction, so that when they come together, their movements oppose each other, the convection stops, and the photons are emitted.

Nature: Gain-Assisted Superluminal Light Propagation

Meta Research Bulletin: The Speed of Gravity — What Experiments Say

Nasa: Ringside Seat to the Universe’s First Split Second

Telegraph: We have broken speed of light

LANL: Superluminal polarization currents in pulsars and on Earth

New Mexican: LANL scientist makes radio waves travel faster than light

Universe Today: Device Makes Radio Waves Travel Faster Than Light

Homophobia is caused by male competition, for as homosexuality towards men reduces competitiveness with them, men had to repress it to remain competitive. Repression caused homosexuals to project their own homosexuality on others, which caused heterosexuals intrusive thoughts of homosexual sex, and while most people are somewhat bisexual, most aren’t enough so that they’d actually want sex with their own sex, so that these intrusive thoughts may have been stressful enough that they led heterosexuals to even further repress their own homosexuality. This repression then led to reaction formation.

(Mauricio Delgado: To Trust or Not to Trust: Ask Oxytocin).

While carbon dioxide was below 280 ppm for a hundred thousand years, it increased to 380 ppm since industrialization, higher than in the last three solar maxima (Vostok ice core, EPICA ice core, Law Dome ice core, Siple Dome ice, Mauna Loa Observatory) and temperatures increased right after, with all but one source showing that temperatures are higher than they have been for thousands of years (Wikipedia Commons: 1000 Year Temperature Comparison). Carbon dioxide is also toxic. By law it may not exceed 0.5 percent by law, yet in the outdoors it is already 0.38%, and the carbon dioxide concentration has been increasing exponentially from 338 ppm in 1980 to 380 ppm in 2008, with an average increase of about 0,4% per year (R. F. Keeling et al.: Scripps CO₂ program), so that if it keeps going, within 50 years, the CO₂ will be close to 0.5 percent even in the outdoors. Solar activity cannot be the cause of global warming, as the Arctic has been getting less energy over the past 8000 years, causing a cooling which would have went on for another 4000 years (University of Arizona: Recent Arctic Warming Reverses Millennia-long Cooling Trend), weren’t it that the Arctic is now heating up because it keeps the energy it gets longer. This is also what causes the Arctic ozone hole, as the heat in the troposphere now moves more slowly to the stratosphere, cooling it down (Science Daily: Arctic on the Verge of Record Ozone Loss). All our greenhouse gases together increase heat by 2.2 watts per square meter (GRL: New estimates of radiative forcing due to well mixed greenhouse gases). As we get 1368 watts per square meter of sunlight and 30% is reflected back into space, we get 960 watts per square meter of heat from the sun, and as these 960 watts increase the average surface temperature by about 290 kelvins, 2.2 watts would increase the average surface temperature by 0.7 kelvins. The increased temperature causes plant death and reduced CO₂ absorption (Queen Mary University: Warmer ecosystems could absorb less atmospheric carbon dioxide), which causes further global warming (e! Science News: Global warming: Our best guess is likely wrong). 1 kelvin per century is already fast, and may be too fast for many species to adapt, especially as, with 83% of the landscape changed by humans (National Geographic: Human "Footprint" Seen on 83 Percent of Earth's Land), most species cannot migrate to cooler climates due to habitat fragmentation. The mass extinction has already begun long ago, with 97% of all vertebrate biomass on Earth already made up of humans and their domesticated animals (John H. Bodley: Anthropology and contemporary human problems, page 33). Global warming only has a very small part in this mass extinction, but what makes it so important in it is that it affects ourselves, and thereby forces us to become more environmentalist, which without global warming we might never have. In this, global warming may well have saved what’s left of nature, as, without it, our environmental destruction would have kept going so slowly that we would never have paid much heed to it until nothing was left of nature.

ThinkProgress: Indicators of A Human Fingerprint on Climate Change

Doctors used psychedelics for decades for research and treatment, so that it was banned not for medical reasons, and indeed against medical reasons, but for political reasons, as psychedelics were the drugs which drove the counterculture which revolted around the world in 1968. Three years after the protests, often in spite of compelling evidence of their safety in medical use, psychedelics were banned even medically, which, considering that they were often the only therapy for many cases of mental illness, is nothing less than genocide.

(Archives of General Psychiatry, William McGlothin et al.: Long Lasting Effects of LSD on Normals)

(Archives of General Psychiatry, Nicolas Malleson: Acute Adverse Reactions to LSD in Clinical and Experimental Use in the United Kingdom)

Drugs are used irresponsibly when sold irresponsibly, but they will be used responsibly if they are sold responsibly, and if people cannot get drugs from responsible sellers, they will just get them from irresponsible sellers, so that all we need to do is make sure that there are responsible sellers, which tell the buyer of all risks and what to do about them. If there are risks to others, they could be allowed to use the drug only under certain circumstances.

CATO INSTITUTE, Glenn Greenwald: Drug Decriminalization in Portugal:
Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies

Bruce Mirken, Opposing Views: Drug-Friendly Netherlands to Close 8 Prisons — Not Enough Crime

Reason: Judge Jim Gray on The Six Groups That Benefit From Drug Prohibition

Elsevier’ International Journal of Drug Policy: Drug Laws Fail to Protect Children

CBS News, Sean Alfano: Peyote Not Linked to Brain Damage

Nature, Nuri Farber et al.: Serotonergic Agents That Activate 5HT_2A Receptors [such as LSD] Prevent NMDA Antagonist Neurotoxicity

PubMed, Tourino C. et al.: THC Prevents MDMA Neurotoxicity in Mice

Scientific American, Arran Frood: Key ingredient staves off marijuana memory loss

Scientific American: Ecstasy Triumphs over Agony: MDMA Helps with Recovery from Trauma

Cambridge Journals: Opposite relationships between cannabis use and neurocognitive functioning in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

Pubmed, Chipana C. et al: Memantine protects against amphetamine derivatives-induced neurotoxic damage in rodents

Vanderbilt, Leigh Macmillan: Ecstasy drug associated with chronic change in brain function

MDMA.net, Fischer C et al.: Reorganization of ascending 5-HT axon projections in animals previously exposed to the recreational drug (+/-)3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "ecstasy")