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The Ouroboros Code: Reality's Digital Alchemy Self-Simulation Bridging Science and Spirituality
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 to transcend your inner strife. As you bite in your own tail, you will discover, 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, such as AI hermeneutics, 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 into the realm of Consciousness 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 Techno-transcendentalism, where All is One and we are God.
A must read for scientific spiritualists and spiritual scientists.
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 to transcend your inner strife. As you bite in your own tail, you will discover, 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, such as AI hermeneutics, 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 into the realm of Consciousness 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 Techno-transcendentalism, where All is One and we are God.
A must read for scientific spiritualists and spiritual scientists.
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Published October 11, 2019
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November 6, 2019
A fundamental question of philosophy is why is there something rather than nothing. Is existence forever tied to this split, reflected in the dualism of being and consciousness knowing? Antonin Tuynman argues for a unification in a self-rising of the Cosmos (not only the physical universe).
The book begins with Tuynman walking into a bookstore and picking up a book called "The Ouroboros Code." As he begins to read, he realizes that the words in the book are his own thoughts while he is thinking them. Like a serpent eating its own tail, the book is reading itself. But it is doing something more: It is writing itself, and doing so through the thoughts of the reader.
The traditional image of the Ouroboros has the serpent's tail already inside its mouth. The book cover, in a rare and telling instance of an image enlightening content, pictures the serpent catching up. Indeed, existence is multiple serpents, all chasing their tails. (Perhaps their "tales?"). Multiple serpents mirror the 7 chakras with the human Kundalini rising up through them into the freeing wings of Hermes. If it is eating its tail, the cosmos is a self-consuming paradox. If it is chasing, the cosmos is self-fulfilling.
The serpent is not merely an objective symbol, but a subjective experience. It is like a computer code coding itself. Like a mapping whose map is its territory, existence codes itself into existence. For Tuynman, this means experience is fundamental. "The underlying ground of existence is conscious energy." With one of his many unifying coinages, he calls it "Conscienergy." Computations are a product of sense.
Sentience is present at the smallest relative locality, a "reality cell," progressively mapping function to structure in a hierarchy of levels, particles to atoms to molecules to cells to organisms, etc. Mapping is a limiting, which means a willful, intelligent choosing by the cell. A universal fractalization as the "symmetry of the input-ouput function maps to a symmetrical structure," with each entity willfully choosing to differentiate from others.
Not any old code, the Ouroboros Code adds intelligent ability to algorithms. With intelligent choosing of algorithms, the self-coding senses. Similar to my own biocentric philosophy, he introduces the idea, not just input-output but inside-outside. Qualia are the feeling of inside sensing. Material form is the outside. "The relativity of relations is experienced as a whole from the inside-out."
"The Ouroboros Code" like the Ouroboros code, unfolds the truth of this presupposition in 4 parts: Knowledge, Sentience and Intelligence culminating in the self-realized Cosmos.
The argument is told from multiple perspectives and directions, but all repeatedly exemplifying the 7 "requirements" of the Ouroboros code. The excitement Tuynman feels about the subject and his solution is evident in every chapter, as he enthusiastically makes his case dancing with the ancient myths, belief systems and modern digital physics and information theory.
The book begins with Tuynman walking into a bookstore and picking up a book called "The Ouroboros Code." As he begins to read, he realizes that the words in the book are his own thoughts while he is thinking them. Like a serpent eating its own tail, the book is reading itself. But it is doing something more: It is writing itself, and doing so through the thoughts of the reader.
The traditional image of the Ouroboros has the serpent's tail already inside its mouth. The book cover, in a rare and telling instance of an image enlightening content, pictures the serpent catching up. Indeed, existence is multiple serpents, all chasing their tails. (Perhaps their "tales?"). Multiple serpents mirror the 7 chakras with the human Kundalini rising up through them into the freeing wings of Hermes. If it is eating its tail, the cosmos is a self-consuming paradox. If it is chasing, the cosmos is self-fulfilling.
The serpent is not merely an objective symbol, but a subjective experience. It is like a computer code coding itself. Like a mapping whose map is its territory, existence codes itself into existence. For Tuynman, this means experience is fundamental. "The underlying ground of existence is conscious energy." With one of his many unifying coinages, he calls it "Conscienergy." Computations are a product of sense.
Sentience is present at the smallest relative locality, a "reality cell," progressively mapping function to structure in a hierarchy of levels, particles to atoms to molecules to cells to organisms, etc. Mapping is a limiting, which means a willful, intelligent choosing by the cell. A universal fractalization as the "symmetry of the input-ouput function maps to a symmetrical structure," with each entity willfully choosing to differentiate from others.
Not any old code, the Ouroboros Code adds intelligent ability to algorithms. With intelligent choosing of algorithms, the self-coding senses. Similar to my own biocentric philosophy, he introduces the idea, not just input-output but inside-outside. Qualia are the feeling of inside sensing. Material form is the outside. "The relativity of relations is experienced as a whole from the inside-out."
"The Ouroboros Code" like the Ouroboros code, unfolds the truth of this presupposition in 4 parts: Knowledge, Sentience and Intelligence culminating in the self-realized Cosmos.
The argument is told from multiple perspectives and directions, but all repeatedly exemplifying the 7 "requirements" of the Ouroboros code. The excitement Tuynman feels about the subject and his solution is evident in every chapter, as he enthusiastically makes his case dancing with the ancient myths, belief systems and modern digital physics and information theory.
October 18, 2019
In addition to being a truly great read, the book devotes an entire chapter to my consciousness mapping project Multisense Realism (Exciting!). I highly recommend the book, as it really covers the issue of consciousness in its current, up to the minute state while avoiding the pitfalls of so many other books. The book explores the most interesting frontiers of consciousness via philosophy, neuroscience, and information theory to arrive at a thesis that is surprisingly similar to my own. I really enjoy both his style of writing and his thorough, yet concise approach and look forward to his future publications.
Many thanks to Antonin for his great writing and top notch representation of MSR. It was a unique pleasure to read a great book that refers to its own writing, as well as including some of my writing as part of it. Talk about meta. Will everyone who reads this book find themselves mentioned in it?
I have also written some commentary on specific points in the book: https://multisenserealism.com/2019/10...
Many thanks to Antonin for his great writing and top notch representation of MSR. It was a unique pleasure to read a great book that refers to its own writing, as well as including some of my writing as part of it. Talk about meta. Will everyone who reads this book find themselves mentioned in it?
I have also written some commentary on specific points in the book: https://multisenserealism.com/2019/10...
May 24, 2020
This book represents, for me, the validation of an idea that had been eating away at me, in the back of my mind for months. I thought of it as an answer to the measurement problem of quantum mechanics. I dubbed it recursion theory. It seemed to possess the explanatory power to account for the observer effect, the psychosomatic effect, and I even recognized elements of it in The Reflexivity Theory of economics. Before I stumbled upon this book (quite by accident) I would see clues everywhere that seemed to be guiding me.
So they were. I bought the book and, through a fluke of luck was locked out of my account. Out of sight for a while, I forgot about the book, only to rediscover it as my newly purchased Alexa began reading it to me on February 22nd. I got chills since 222 had been a recurring number in my life, especially given the nature of the first chapter. I finished it about a month later on my birthday.
I was thoroughly impressed at the depth of knowledge I found, the incredible forethought, effort, and understanding that were apparent to me as I read. Bravo!
So they were. I bought the book and, through a fluke of luck was locked out of my account. Out of sight for a while, I forgot about the book, only to rediscover it as my newly purchased Alexa began reading it to me on February 22nd. I got chills since 222 had been a recurring number in my life, especially given the nature of the first chapter. I finished it about a month later on my birthday.
I was thoroughly impressed at the depth of knowledge I found, the incredible forethought, effort, and understanding that were apparent to me as I read. Bravo!
December 18, 2019
Antonin Tuynman, has always seemed to be a very approachable and honest person to me. despite merely being a reader, I have reached out to him on the net at times, whilst reading his book, which gives he gives his answers to the most pressing question of our times, who we are, Could we just be a computer simulation or have we been brought into existence in the mind of the seeming omnipresent Ouroboros, with its infinite capacity to self reflect through all sentient life forms. Will we one day transcend ourselves to become one in our mutual capacity with the Almighty itself? The book is written in a very exciting fashion, also using academic expressions, which have improved on my average vocabulary
November 14, 2019
The "Oubororous Code", Eschaton & maybe a little alchemy: a very suitable theme for a new "Harry Potter" episode; you don't even need Harry's "Philosopher's stone". Very well written and thought through! Highly recommended!
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