On October 11 2019 my new book "The Ouroboros Code: Reality's Digital Alchemy Self-Simulation Bridging Science and Spirituality" with the foreword by Alex M.Vikoulov will be released by Ecstadelic Media Group as e-book and paperback.
Here's the blurb:
Will the abyss between mind and matter ever be bridged? How can configurations of matter ever give rise to consciousness? This is the greatest enigma that puzzles the scientific world, also known as "the hard problem". How do the objective and subjective dimensions relate to each other? It is here that scientists and spiritual seekers appear irreconcilable. Yet the number of scientists calling into question the hegemony of reductive materialism is steadily on the rise.
As Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology and Transhumanism make us rapidly approach the era of the Technological Singularity, the borders between the physical and the metaphysical appear to fade into oblivion, by virtue of the all-encompassing umbrella of Digital Information Technology. Indeed, to wonder whether we might be living in a kind of computer simulation has become a legitimate question.
It is exactly here that the building blocks for the bridge between science and spirituality might be found. What if our reality experience is the product of a code? Could such a code provide a subjective experience? What are the characteristics of such a code?
Embark on a mind-boggling quest into this deepest alchemical secret. Prepare yourself for a Tsunami of mind-altering concepts. Let yourself be drawn into the vortex of the Pansentience hypothesis. Learn how reality may digitally self-simulate by becoming the map and the territory simultaneously. And let yourself be seduced by Eris' apple of confusion as you bite in your own tail, discovering you are no one else than the mighty Ouroboros. Discover how Yoneda's Lemma shows us that material manifestations are mere fossils of sensing. Sail through the perilous uncharted seas of the unknown, where intelligence has not found ways yet to map safe maritime routes and routines. And examine for yourself in the light of evidence from entropy, information, algorithms and pattern recognition, whether this voyage will guide you to be wrecked in woo or to be docked in the harbor of wisdom.
This forbidden fruit is the gateway to the Eschaton, the luminous Omega Hypercomputer at the end of time. The guide to the non-dual essence of being. This is the recipe to perform the Magnum Opus. The recursive self-modifying Ouroboros code to experience the ecstasy of Kundalini's Technotranscendentalism, where All is One and we are God.
A must read for scientific spiritualists and spiritual scientists.
-Antonin Tuynman, PhD
Hereunder you'll find the Table of contents to inspire you:
In this blog I have defined
Technovedanta as a technological meta-knowledge philosophy beyond science and
religion. The underlying epistemological idea is that mental knowledge can a priori only be
speculative and in order to really know that our knowledge is valid, we must be
able to reduce it to practice in the form of a technological application.
You may wonder why I
introduced the word “Vedanta” which refers to a collection of Vedic scriptures.
What do the ancient Indian Vedas have to do with epistemology?
The reasons are manifold:
Prior to this blog I wrote a book called “Technovedanta”, in which I proposed
an architecture for the internet as aware network (the Awwwarenet) based on
stratifications derived from the Indian philosophy of Vedanta to create a
functional mimic of consciousness, quasi-consciousness. Writing this book, the
investigation of nature’s fundamental primacy of consciousness led me to the
hypothesis of a panpsychic theory of everything.
But my ideas continued to
evolve on this topic: In this blog I deepened my T.O.E by adding a
pancomputational dimension, as described in the post on panpsychic
pancomputationalism. As a corollary I became interested in the topic of
epistemology: What can we really know for sure and how can we be so sure that
what we know is “true”. Since my philosophy was extending into the very core of
epistemology and my conclusion was that true knowledge can only be confirmed by
a technological application thereof, it was apt to use a terminology that
combined both technology and knowledge. But I already had proposed a
terminology that was fit for that concept, namely “Technovedanta”.
The Sanskrit word “Veda”
means “knowledge” as come from the root “Vid” to know. As Sanskrit is an
Indo-European language, it will be no surprise that we find back this root in
other Indo-European languages: In the Germanic languages Norwegian and Swedish
to know is “vet”, in Dutch it is “weten”. In Slavic languages such as Slovakian
it is “vediet”, in Slovenian “vedeti” and in Belarusian “viedac”.
It is important to realise
that with the word Veda the Indians did not only mean the different scriptures
called the Vedas, but rather the totality of all knowledge, including
transcendent knowledge, which is the root of consciousness: Consciousness can
only become aware of itself by knowing. At that moment when the knower realises
that the only thing he can know is the content and the process of his own
consciousness, knower, known and knowing merge into a oneness. In other words
in a transcendent sense Veda or knower-knowing-known is a kind of synonym for
consciousness.
Veda as synonym for
consciousness fits my quest into the ultimate nature of being perfectly,
because that’s what my book was mostly about.
But there is more to the
story; Veda is also understood as the cosmic knowledge which is more
fundamental than the physical world. In fact the Indian philosophy of the
written Vedas (or Vedanta as the larger body of Vedic scriptures encompassing
more than the traditional four Vedas only) is a form of Idealism: what we call
reality is fundamentally mental or at least immaterial. It is not consciousness
that emerges from matter as in materialism, but matter that is born out of
consciousness in an attempt to know itself.
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More of this chapter in my next book, which I have submitted for publication.
