Context: April 28th, at the beach watching sunset. Later at home watching related content.
#Thoughts #HT

Time & related thoughts

88. What is time? Was time discovered or invented? Does a microorganism know time? What even is the notion of time to them? Does a slug know time? Do apes know time? Surely at some point in history, the first human suddenly came up with the idea of time. Did he discover it or invent it as part of the story he started telling? Are we all in his story?

The first human/ape/x to keep track of time started it by looking at the sun – its repetitions. 1 day was the unit.

Who defined “year” first? How did they define it?

90. When did we start counting years? When was it discovered that after 365 days the earth completes one year (around the sun)? Who decided that we will start counting from Jesus’s death? Was Jesus real? Whoever is the storyteller, we are all possibly in his story since then.

90.1 Why are we counting years since Jesus’s death? What are we waiting for?

94. Think of the spacetime block universe. And the multiverse. If I regret a past choice – if I contemplate that if I had made the other choice with a better outcome, in the past, would I have made it out of a proper understanding/calculated choosing? or would it have been just a random choice out of all possible options? For it to have been a wise choice made out of proper understanding, I would need to have foresight of the future; clarity. The visibility along the time axis should not be fuzzy/uncertain.

So I guess the more certain I can be about my future, the wiser the choices I can make.

Is this what the Oracle referred to when she said “You have already made the choice in the future. You just have to understand it. You cannot see past a choice that you do not understand”.

94. Perhaps, over nuancing of some ideas has made it difficult for us to understand the true nature of reality around us. Like, having different tenses and different words for each of the tenses – past, present, future.
Eg. Saying “When will X happen and when did Y happen?” vs saying “When does X happen and when does Y happen?”

Maybe people whose language never had any distinction between past, present, future have a more accurate perspective of the universe. Or do we (the English speaking modern Western world) have the more accurate perspective? Which one is it?

96. The universe exists because the spacetime block (matrix of spatial frames) is filled with numbers that are *NOT* random. There is continuity along the frames. That means it contains information. There is a function. Each frame is a function of time.

Other Thoughts

95. “You are my favorite [person].”. What is favorite. Is it a cultural thing? Does the word / notion / meaning of favorite exist in Marathi, Hindi?

89. Are cigarette smokers perpetually high? Is that their normal and they believe that majority of the world is in their normal?
It would feel like a sober person feels believing that the majority of the world is their sober normal.
Is this what it means to be addicted to something and it being hard to quit it? It’s hard because you don’t understand the reality. But again which one is real?

91. Driving **** thru the winding hills at night with powerful music in sports mode is just like playing NFS on the best video controller & screen never made.

92. I want to be the main character of my life; or the storyteller.

93. I want to learn and understand how the world works. That is my passion. I want to be paid for learning more about the world/universe. Why would they pay me? In exchange, I can teach it to the society. I can be the one discovering things and spreading the knowledge. If only this could happen, I’d be happy. This basically means I should have been a physics student->researcher->professor.

Is this a late realization that I should have had before college? Do most others have this realization before college? What can I do now to get that and be happy?

I am pursuing enlightenment. I have been, since college. Who are the enlightened people of the modern world? Relatively the most enlightened people are those who understand the world/universe the best. Those who have the best model/understanding of the mechanism/workings of the universe/world. If this definition of enlightened remains constant over time/centuries, then today’s Physicists, Mathematicians, Astronomers, Philosophers, PhDs, leaders of the world are the same as olden times’ enlightened/buddhas/pandits/spiritual leaders/leaders.

Are today’s leaders of the world enlightened with some knowledge they share in common with each other that the common man does not know/understand? What is that knowledge? What did Elon Musk grow up reading/learning/watching/observing? Zuckerberg? Shannon? Einstein? Newton?