The Central Thesis of Symbiotic Existential Cosmology © Chris King 25-10-2023 as part of SEC 1.1.416

  

Abstract: The central thesis of Symbiotic Existential Cosmology (SEC) (King 2021) asserts quantum-critical interaction – that subjective consciousness interacts with the physical brain, as an anticipator of computationally intractable environmental uncertainty, utilising space-time entangled patterns of brain wave states, which are in quantum-critical  phase transition between superimposed wave function evolution and measurement-derived wave function collapse. These are biologically coupled to a complementary self-critically tuned neurodynamic phase transition, in which edge-of-chaos instabilities in conscious brain dynamics, accompanied by wave phase-modulation, implicitly involve hand-shaking between past and future special-relativistic states in their entangled wave functions. This provides efficacy of subjective conscious volition over the physical universe, by anticipating existential threats to organismic survival, which is thus preserved by evolution, in a universe that is also in a phase transition between full entanglement and wave collapse  – a process which is also in a state of biospheric evolutionary climax. The process is cosmological, because the symmetry-breaking of the colour, weak and electromagnetic vector boson forces results in fractal edge of chaos molecular quantum interactions, leading to the complexity pathway, including biogenesis and biological evolution, which is the cumulative expression of the four forces of nature in interaction, complementing the energy pathway, leading to galaxies, planetary systems and black holes (King 2004).

Fig 1: The Central Neurodynamic Thesis

 

This resolves two complementary questions essential to any existential cosmology:

 

(a)   The neurobiological question of the explanatory gap and the hard problem of the subjectivity of consciousness extended to volition, in which subjective conscious physical volition is manifested through space-time – entangled patterns of brain wave states in a quantum phase transition, coupled to self-organised neurodynamic phase transitions  at the edge-of-chaos, complemented by tuned modulation of wave phase.

(b)  The cosmological question of a universe, in an ongoing partially collapsed phase transition, of quantumness, between a fully quantum-entangled cosmic wave function and a measurement-reduced universe, substantially quantum-collapsed, due to a plethora of destructive measurement processes that tend to evoke “classical” outcomes, through the projection operator, as in the cat paradox experiment, in which planetary biospheres and conscious existence, co-arise in evolutionary climax, at the edge of chaos.

 

Empirical experience confirms that, while the physical universe is necessary for our biological survival, subjective conscious experience is primary. We access the physical world, exclusively and entirely through our subjective conscious experiences of it, so subjective consciousness is clearly primary to our knowledge of the physical universe, whose physical quanta in bosons and fermions, we do not experience directly, but only inferentially, through our biologically-derived subjective sensory perceptions, along with less-confined inner subjective experiences in dreams, visions and psychedelic states including that which inspired SEC. Nevertheless, we understand that, as living organisms, the physical universe in the form of climax planetary biospheres, is necessary to our biological survival, as an inferred foundation of our common existence.

 

In a classical deterministic Laplacian universe, every future state is fully determined by the dynamical laws of evolution and the initial conditions, while in the quantum universe, our knowledge of outcomes is restricted to evolution of the Schrödinger equation, (von Neumann process 2), punctuated by collapse of the wave function to an eigenvalue (von Neumann process 1) , resulting in discrete events having an observed probability determined by the wave function amplitude under the Born interpretation. This leads to non-local hidden-variable theories, postulated below the quantum level, from pilot waves, through quantum transactions to super-determinism, which seek to explain and determine the specific individual outcomes we see, for example in the Schrödinger cat paradox experiment, where a cat subjected to a lethal dose of cyanide, via a radio-active decay is found to be alive or dead but not both. The quantum universe is thus in a state of punctuated causality and is neither fully defined, nor causally closed. Because brain dynamics do not involve independent identically-distributed (IID) measurements, as their contexts are continually changing, there is no evidence that they converge to the classical limit in the Born interpretation, even at biological temperatures. Nor can it be established that the brain’s dynamics is causally closed to subjectivity. We attempt to understand such stochasticity using two classical ideas, billiard ball collisions and the probabilities of a poker game, applying the first to quantum decoherence and the second to the probability interpretation of wave function collapse. But neither are adequate to deal with the non-local dynamics of quantum entanglement – in Einstein’s words “God does not play dice with the universe!”

 

The central thesis asserts that subjective consciousness is a key process resolving cosmological indeterminacy, by forming a neurodynamic realisation of hidden interactions governing non-local entanglement, facilitating biological survival by anticipating quantum-derived environmental uncertainty in a manner complementing computational boundary conditions. SEC postulates that subjective “awareness” is expressed at the quantum level in  the special relativistic wave function, extending into both the past and future in process 2,  while subjective “volition” corresponds to wave function reduction in process 1, in primal subjectivity, with full consciousness originating later, with the eucaryote endosymbiosis, in sentient edge of chaos cell membrane excitation and  neurotransmitter-based signalling. Space-time anticipation constitutes whole conscious experiences containing a retro-causal echo of the future, both in intuitive conscious anticipation and experiences of prescience, precognition and deja vu. This cannot be analysed, or predicted by causal computation, for the same reason entanglement prevents transmission of classical information under local Einsteinian causality, and the uncertainties are irreducible, because they involve both computationally intractable environmental uncertainties and indeterminacies due to other live conscious volitional agents.

 

SEC asserts that the conscious brain uses its continuous wave tissue potentials to evoke a unique form of quantum space-time anticipation through global-scale entangled excitations moving in and out of coherence, in a phase transition between full entanglement and wave function collapse, reflected biodynamically in both the phase transition between edge of chaos dynamics at tipping points between chaos and order, and phase coupling between continuous electromagnetic wave potentials in the tissues and individual neuronal action potentials in the neural net connectivity. This results in subjective experience manifesting as a globally omnipresent “stream of consciousness” –forming an anticipatory “quantum of the present”, but also entangled with the future, in a manner similar to an integral transform. Conscious anticipation is complemented by rational processes coupled to established classical causal factors compatible with cerebral cognition involving extensive predictive encoding in the brain, utilising perception, cognition, memory and the experiential context.  Rather than a physically causal action by the brain, perceptual cognition acts as a contextual dynamically-evolving physical boundary filter on consciousness. This enables intuitive subjectively conscious choices, favouring the survival of the organism, by anticipating existential crises and opportunities and in turn applying subjective conscious intentional volition in our decision-making behaviour, to facilitate our biological survival over evolutionary time scales.  Subjective interaction can thus move seamlessly, from uncertainty-dominant anticipative intuition, to context-dominant predictively cognitive responses.

 

This overall picture coincides with our empirical subjective experience of conscious intuitive decision-making, resulting in veridical perception of our volitional action in intentional behaviour. For this purpose, SEC asserts that there are two scientific empirical avenues, (a) verified objective observation and (b) affirmed subjective experience, consistent with the etymology and current meaning of “empirical” as “based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation, or experience, rather than theory or pure logic” (Oxford Languages). Given the fact that the overwhelming opinion of sane people is that we have conscious empirical intentional ability to affect our fates and this is the basis of criminal and corporate law on intent, this has a very high level of empirical validation, which even scientific physicalists, in all honesty, need to concede is the case. Indeed SEC is the only type of cosmology that respects our empirical experience without invoking some form of illusionism that our subjective experience of active agency is a fallacious deception.

 

SEC proposes that subjective conscious intuition in decision-making and volition can influence the ongoing brain state, in situations where there is quantum-derived environmental uncertainty, as is critical for our survival, and that the brain state accompanying subjective conscious volition over the physical universe, occurs only when the physical brain dynamic is in a self-organised critical state of physical phase transition at the edge of chaos, between chaos and order, which is itself at a quantum uncertain unstable tipping point. This avoids causal conflict between subjective volition and a determined ongoing physical brain state. It is achieved by minimising quantum measurement in favour of a higher degree of anticipatory phase entanglement than the surrounding universe, consistent with minimal collapse to the classical. The efficacy of conscious anticipation in survival in the wild is essential to explain why subjective conscious volition has an evolutionary advantage, over non-conscious computational processing and has thus been conserved by evolution due to a peacock’s tail Red Queen race against predators, in which even a marginal advantage over pure computational intelligence becomes pivotal. 

 

Fig 2: Subjective consciousness takes the Red Queen’s lead

over physical Alice in the evolutionary race (Wikipedia).

 

 

SEC adopts the approach of transactional transcausality, where in a positive energy universe, given emitted real quasi-particles undergoing wave function collapse, the uncertain prospective absorbers are transactional boundary conditions in the emitter’s future,  providing an explanation of quantum anticipation, through a future-past handshaking phase transition, from a plasma-like interaction of causal offer and retro-causal confirmation waves, inset centre in fig 1, into a solid-like set of real interactions between emitters and absorbers, in an interaction which is transversal to elapsing time. Furthermore, this is achieved because the brain also uses phase modulation of its waveforms, evidenced in electro- and magneto-encephalograms, through hand-shaking phase coupling of individual action potential timings with the continuous tissue potentials. Brain waves in the EEG share the features of macroscopic radio waves, and hence entanglement in their fields, as in coherent laser light. The modulated phase coherence of global brain dynamics in dynamic feedback with more decentralised partially decoherent local processing, invokes the “spotlight” of conscious attention, with a sub-conscious periphery, common to global neuronal workspace theories. SEC asserts that these phase modulations are homologous to the foundation concept of quantum uncertainty through wave beats,  and constitute a unique form of quantum measurement by the brain of its own internal dynamical states, to facilitate transactional quantum anticipation, distinct from using the Born probability interpretation by destructive measurement, as in standard experimental physics.

 

This enables the subjectively conscious brain to collapse the probability multiverse of future quantum uncertainties, to unfold the line of emerging world history that we invoke together, for better or worse, through our choices in the uncertain “karmic” quantum environment, as live autonomous intentional agents, inheriting personal conscious responsibility for our actions, particularly in relation to the biosphere and it’s and our survival as a species.

 

Human subjects experience trichromatic 3D size-conserved veridical visual perception and Fourier transformed time frequency auditory perception. We also experience veridical perception of our intentional volition being autonomously enacted, consistent with personal responsibility for intent under the law. Physicalist notions admitting subjective consciousness as an internal model of reality, mind-brain identity theories and dual aspect monism share the characteristic that subjective experience is epiphenomenal – supervenient on physical brain states – and hence our veridical perception of mental causation is an illusion. It is commonly suggested that the illusion exists to preserve the evolutionary will to exist and reproduce, but this is counterfactual, because any process required to sustain an illusion is evolutionarily unstable, as it has no intrinsic survival advantage, while the capacity for subjective consciousness is conserved across the metazoa.

 

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Articles

• Planetary Ecocrisis <> Nuclear Misadventure <> Covid-19 <> Reproductive Dystopia Current state of ongoing developments regarding biodiversity, mass extinction, deforestation climate change, the threat of nuclear apocalypse and reproductive tipping points.
• Synchronicity and Quantum Cosmology
• The Global Science and Politics of Covid-19 / SARS-CoV-2 A Self-induced Malthusian Catastrophe 2021
  
• The Origin of Sex: Why All's Fair in Love and War 2017
• Conscious Existence and the Fate of the Universe 2017
• Consciousness, Cosmology and the Meaning of Life
• The Resplendence Codex 2015 This article investigates how the quest for apocalypse compromises our ability to care for the natural diversity and viability of the planet in resplendence and how a change of paradigm could solve this.
• Holy War Against Science: 2016 Evolution versus Intelligent Design. Explains why the evolutionary tree of life is correct while creationism and ID is a religious deception, and shows how nature can give us a superior spiritual view of the universe and life within it.
• Religion, Politics, Sexual Reproduction and the Future of Human Society 8-2015 This article provides an in depth investigation of the causes and solutions of the serious long-term instabilites facing human society including climate change,resource depletion habitat destriction and over-population in terms of fertility, and the effects of religion and politics on human ability to deal with future change.
• The Hyperactive Resting Brain on MEG 7-2015 A two minute MEG profile of a subject in the resting state from the Human Connectome Project generated using wavelet transforms to show interactions between alpha, beta and gamma oscillations suggesting wave coherence processing as occurs in quantum processes.
• Chronicles of Insomnia and the Magic Bullet's Poisoned Chalice 4-2015 How to get a good night's sleep and persuade a quarter of women in the US to take drugs.
• Nature, Violence, Consciousness, Sexuality and World Religion 10-2014 This article is an unveiling expose of the lethal fallacies that underly the religious traditions which between them are followed by a majority of people on this planet, which between them constitute one of the most principal threats to the future survival of humanity.
• Biocosmology 1978-2016 How cosmic symmetry-breaking leads to the origin and evolution of life as an interactive product, with all the latest experimental research from stardust to the last universal common ancestor.
• The Tree of Life: Tangled Roots and Sexy Shoots: 2009-2015 Tracing the genetic pathway from the first eucaryotes to Homo sapiens. a fully referenced research review to overview progress in unraveling the details of the evolutionary Tree of Life, from life's first occurrence in the hypothetical RNA-era, to humanity's own emergence and diversification, through migration and intermarriage, using research diagrams and brief discussion of the current state of the art, in response to summaries of some of these developments.
• Space, Time and Consciousness 2-2015 This paper presents a potential mechanism for the conscious brain to anticipate impending opportunities and threats to survival through massively parallel weak quantum measurement (MPWQM) induced by the combined effects of edge of chaos sensitivity and phase coherence sampling of brain states. It concludes that the underpinnings of this process emerged in single-celled eucaryotes.
• Sex, Genes, Politics and Company Law: Can Capitalist Democracy coexist with Human Survival? 2013 This article investigates whether electoral democracy and capitalist corporate activity can provide any basis for long-term economic and ecological sustainability. We shall also examine how both capitalism and democracy are manifestly social products of the male gender to the exclusion of the immortal sex men live their lives to fertilize and seek the keys to an ecological completion of the economic quest for a life of natural abundance.
• The Cosmology of Conscious Mental States 5-2013 We explore the diversity of mental states, and examine to what extent these are both a product of specific known brain processes and yet may access a complementary aspect of existence to the cosmology of the physical universe and its natural biosystems, potentially giving mental states an existential cosmological status.
• Entheogens, the Conscious Brain and Existential Reality 2012-2015 A state of the art research overview of what is currently known about how entheogens, including the classic psychedelics, affect the brain and transform conscious experience through their altered serotonin receptor dynamics, and to explore their implications for understanding the conscious brain and its relationship to existential reality, and their potential utility in our cultural maturation and understanding of the place of sentient life in the universe.
  Entheogens, Culture and the Conscious Brain (27 min video) 2012 A companion video with source footage of the cultural traditions, as well as the scientific discoveries.
• Deus ex Machina and the Conscious Cosmos 2-2014 The concept of “god in the machine” evokes all the paradoxes of nature and existence, from religious creationism to mechanistic atheism. We use this evocative notion to escape from the contradictions of current world views and to discover the roots of our transformative consciousness.
• Stripping God Naked: The Cosmology of Unveiling How the world got into the situation it has and how we can decode the Rosetta stone, transforming it into a sustainable future.
• Cosmological Foundations of Consciousness 2011 Overview Explores the cosmological basis of consciousness and subjective experience from cosmic symmetry breaking through biogenesis, and eucaryote emergence, to the human brain.
• Cutting Through the Enigma of Consciousness 2010 Exploring the dimensions of subjective consciousness and the ultimate theory of everything.
• The Cosmology of Sexual Paradox and the Fall - A lecture given in Jerusalem August 2010
• Sensory Transduction and Subjective Experience in Nature Precedings 1 Jan 2008, Activitas Nervosa Superior 2009 51/1, 45-50
• Why the Universe is Fractal May 2008
• The Central Enigma of Consciousness 2008 The nature and physical basis of consciousness remains the central enigma of the scientific description of reality in the third millennium. This paper seeks to examine the phenomenal nature of consciousness and elucidate a possible biophysical basis for its existence, in terms of a form of quantum anticipation based on entangled states driven by chaotic sensitivity of global brain states during decision-making processes.
• A Taboo Kind of Retirement Apology 12th Nov 2009 In the emerging tradition of lightning electronic publication, this is a illustrated research version of my farewell speech with live links to the current ground-breaking developments mentioned and research papers, including live research overviews on the origins of life, the evolutionary tree of life and the conscious brain

Books

• Symbiotic Existential Cosmology 2021
• Sexual Paradox: Complementarity, Reproductive Conflict and Human Emergence 2004
• The Black Book of Many Colours 1999

Movies

• Apocalypsia 2001

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Dhushara Research: Strategy and Purpose

The central purpose of Dhushara Research is to maintain a cutting-edge scientific description of reality, particularly in relation to biological life and subjective consciousness, which is optimally conducive to human and natural survival, facilitating a 'soft-landing' in terms of human impact for the closing circle of the biosphere, transcending traditional religious imperatives. This program maintains several central articles which are continuously updated in real time as new research emerges, as indicated by their genotype.

1. Symbiotic Cosmology and Perennial Conscious Existence
2. Quantum Reality and Cosmology overviews quantum entanglement and the cosmological processes shaping both the fundamental wave-particle forces of nature and the universe at large.
3. Biocosmology overviews discovering how life emerges as an interactive consequence of cosmological symmetry-breaking of the fundamental forces, with combined astronomical, chemical, and biological evidence for a fractal informational phase transition to replicative life.
4. Tree of Life: Tangled Roots and Sexy Shoots traces the genetic and evolutionary pathways from the last universal common ancestor of life on Earth to Homo sapiens, emphasizing the role of evolution in the diversification of life and conscious intelligence.
5. Subjective consciousness becomes the next major focus:
   1. Space, Time and Consciousness looks at subjective consciousness and its consequences in a general overview.
   2. The Central Enigma of Consciousness focuses on the hard problem of subjective experience in relation to brain science.
   3. Entheogens, the Conscious Brain and Existential Reality researches how subjective experience is modulated by mind-altering substances, complemented by Twelve Sacred Plants.
   4. The Cosmology of Conscious Mental States ties these together in a common perspective.
6. Threats to human and natural survival are investigated - Planetary Ecocrisis, Nuclear Holocaust and Reproductive Technology.
7. Sexual Paradox: Reproductive Conflict and Human Emergence examines the emergence of humanity in terms of its high degree of sexual polarization and ensuring reproductive conflict:
   1. The Entanglements of Biological Sex looks at sexual biology and sexual polarization.
   2. Sexual Paradox in the Brain examines sexual differences in terms of the human brain and brain function.
   3. Humanity's Evolutionary Heritage looks at our primate and hominin origins and our genetic emergence.
   4. Culture out of Africa examines our cultural origins in founding African peoples from the mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosome Adam.
   5. Emergence of Civilization and the Fall overviews how reproductive conflict has given rise to major patriarchal cultural and religious traditions.
   6. Religious traditions and their imposition of patriarchal sexual imperatives are examined in detail in several further chapters of Sexual Paradox.
8. Resplendence is a transformative world-view, transcending the implicit bondage of religion, while complementing the scientific description of reality and nature in a way which is conducive to human survival and the survival of life's diversity in a resplendent paradaisical climax biosphere. Four key articles deal with complementing the scientific description in a discovery process into the ultimate nature of conscious existence trnscending religious world -views:
   1. Conscious Existence and the Fate of the Universe provides an explanation of how respendence fulfils the existential quest in a primary exploration of the conscius condition that transcends religion and complements scientific discovery.
   2. The Origin of Sex shows how evolution has given rise firstly to sex, then multicelled organisms and conscious brains, explaining why female reproductive choice is key to the emergence of our super-intelligence.
   3. Planetary Ecocrisis is a real time research reference overview of damage being done to biodiversity and the biosphere as a direct evidential call to action.
   4. Resplendence: A Cosmological Theory of Knowing looks at resplendence as a subjective theory and method complementing objective science..
9. Transcending Religion: Three key articles deal with complementing the scientific description in enlightened human decision-making protecting the planet and its living generations.
   1. Nature, Violence, Consciousness, Sexuality and World Religion overviews the conflicts and contradictions arising from religious imperatives. It is a critiquie of traditional religious descriptions and the often violent realities they try to impose on humanity, and women in particular, in conflict with human survival as a species.
   2. The Resplendence Codex resolves this existential crisis by outling a prospective Tao or way of life complementary to the natural description, healing the biosphere, entitled resplendence for its verdant reflowering of natrual diversity. Resplendence provides resolution in a comprehensive view of reality and the meaning and purpose of life, complementing science and nature.
   3. Conscious Existence and the Meaning of Life Unravelling the Existential dilemma and the diversity of life in the quantum universe.

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The Central Enigma of Life, the Universe and Everything

How the brain gives rise to subjective consciousness remains the deepest and most confounding enigma in the scientific description of reality and our existential quest. The sentient universe is a fundamental complementarity between objective and subjective aspects, with our subjective consciousness and our physical world description forming our own intimate representation of this complementation. Although we depend on the physical world for our survival as an organism, all our experiences of it come exclusively through our subjective experience. This complementarity has a multi-fold manifestation in the world too - wave-particle, boson-fermion, ovum-sperm, female-male, etc. as the molecular fractal complexity of life explodes, and abstractly in chaos-order, calculus-algebra, discrete-continuous and defection vs cooperation in the prisoners' dilemma -- all forming a Tao, or Tantra, as the Eastern traditions describe it.

This means that even trying to think of the "hard problem" of consciousness research -- how the brain gives rise to the subjective mind -- as such, is a misrepresentation of a complementarity which can be understood only in terms of cosmological panpsychism. The scientific description of the physical universe, for all its astounding discoveries, is purely a model of the behaviour of physical entities, such as photons and molecules and the structures they form. This means we think of consciousness as associated only with the physical brain and with higher brain functions which we don't fully understand, but imagine can somehow bridge this gap in terms of collective neural oscillations. The trouble is that subjective experiences are so different from the physical description that no conceivable brain function model can bridge the gap.

By contrast, the Darwinian panpsychism of Symbiotic Existential Comology proposes that the fundamental constituents of the universe -- i.e. quanta -- have both a subjective existence and objective behaviour. We can't see this existence or "isness" directly, just as we have difficulty seeing one another's consciousness directly, so objective behaviour becomes the default core description. However we know that the quantum wave function shapes where each particle ends up in a way which remains unpredictable for a single quantum and only becomes determined in the average, in terms of the probability (amplitude squared) of the wave function. We have also discovered that quantum entanglement between particles is both critical and universal to how the universe works. This means that a primitive form of subjective "consciousness" is represented in the wave function extending into the past and future entangled with other wave functions and the volition or fee will of the quantum is represented in its idiosyncratic revelation of the particle when wave function collapse occurs.

The brain inherited the dynamics to make our form of subjective consciousness possible long before multi-celled organisms evolved. LECA the founding single-celled eucaryote already possessed the G-protein linked receptors found in the brain, and going even deeper -- LUCA the last common ancestor of all life, possessed a chemi-osmotic excitable membrane, enabling chaotic sensitivity in the butterfly effect during bursting and beating. In the context of animal brains, these in turn, lead to phase-front processing, which forms a representation of the same dynamics involved in quantum measurement, bringing in quantum entanglement into the dynamics, driven by self-organized criticality at tipping points running from individual ion channels to whole brain dynamics.

This means that the universe is a sentient cosmos, evolving to make possible a fully intimate connection between subjective and objective aspects of reality, in which existential "isness" and objective behaviour reach a consummation in the sentient brain in conscious perception and intentional will. Consciousness can then intentionally affect the physical universe, just as we experience it to do, by collapsing the wave function of the "multiverse" of quantum probabilities into the line of cosmic history we experience, through Schrodinger's cat paradox. This is what we experience as conscious decision-making, affecting the world around us, for better or worse.

This in turn means that, as a consummating manifestation of cosmic sentience, we have a personal and collective responsibility to fulfil this emergent quest and to preserve and unfold the diversity of life in the universe and this is what the meaning and purpose of life is all about. It is we ourselves, the universe's sentient beings, who form the consummating manifestation of the interactive catastrophe set off by symmetry-breaking in the cosmic origin rising to biospheric symbiosis in comlex life on the cosmic equtor in space-time and it is we who must needs protect and unfold the diversity of life so that the process can reach ultimate fulfillment. The buck stops with us and the fate of the universe and life within it becomes our personal responsibility to protect, rather than exploit.

Religious notions of deity in the form of an all-powerful God are an imaginary externalisation of this emergent cosmic principle personalised in the form of an anthropomorphic agent with all-too-human emotions of jealousy, wrath and compassion, giving form to tohu-va-vohu -- chaos without form or void. This leads to an abandonment of personal responsibility for the preservation of life and a root confusion between subjective and objective manifestations, in which personality, moral judgment and legislative manufacture, are perceived to have shaped a lifeless world, thus deprecating the intrinsic fecundity of the natural universe to manifest in space-time in the emergence and evolving diversity of sentient life, invoking instead the edict "let there be light" and the false notion of creationism by manufacture, or in its metamorphosis, intelligent design. At the same time, religion lays false claim to present a final account of our conscious destiny in the life hereafter beyond the mortal coil in a way which dislocates us from the natural world and its protection.

The danger is that religion disregards the very principles of evolutionary emergence of the sentient universe that are key to avoiding a critical tipping point, causing climate and ecological crisis, threatening our survival in the enclosing biosphere of planet Earth in an apocalyptic end of days. We likewise face a parallel danger from rampant objective materialism, which denies any cosmological role for consciousness, and in which any exploitative outcome is a win for the perpetrator, allowing business as usual to become predatory and personal gain to become destructive to the survival of the diversity of life.

Hence the situation is extremely urgent and a revolution of understanding of what subjective consciousness is and its role in the natural universe is essential for our survival. Among the diversity of mental states, dreaming and visionary and psychedelic experiences give us further understanding of the intrinsic nature of the subjective, to help humanity make this transition, without which it becomes all too easy for us to confuse consciousness with merely being a ghost in the machine of objective reality.

Populism, Tribalism and the Future of Planet Earth
The Great Dying is a Wake-Up Call: A Personal Statement
The Diamond Oracle - Verifiable Trust and Planetary Survival

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