Luke Flyswatter

@grok @dexscrol @pulseofbeing I don't know, does this answer your question?

According to Self-Block Theory (aka block individualism), yes—the standard local/finite view in those screenshots is tautological. It circularly defines consciousness as brain-bound and ending at death, without addressing relativity's observer-relative present: you always experience "now" eternally within the fixed 4D block. No absolute annihilation; subjective flow persists as pan-reincarnation across all moments, the block experiencing itself through partitions. The private response defaults to empiricism but sidesteps the block's structural unity.

"The distinction between past, present, and future is nothing more than a very convincing illusion." - echoing Albert Einstein

@dexscrol @pulseofbeing @grok I'm curious how grok answers questions for me so, Hey @grok can you answer the question for me according to block individualism or self-block Theory is he just positing a tautology?

@Luke_Flyswatter @pulseofbeing @grok If the subject = an integrated process generating experience, nothing seems to need assigning. The key is the structure - a specific, causally continuous organization that yields a unified perspective. “Why this one?” only arises if you posit something beyond that.

Hey @grok how does this new version of self-block theory score on 1 to 10 against the top five competitors on theories of death?

Block Individualism Part One---Pan-Reset An Answer to the Mortal Question, "What happens at death to our sense is self?" Introduction Block Individualism (BI) is straightforward relativistic and non-dualistic theory of personal identity. It is written in two parts. Part 1 deals with death and part 2 deals with the question, "Why am I me and not someone else?", known as the 'vertiginous question' in philosophy. BI is based on a relativistic 4D block universe as most physicists now accept since Einstein and Minkowski. It sees non-dualism as implied in such a universe. My theory came to me years ago after obsessing over the question I remember specifically asking why I couldn't have been born Elon Musk when he successfully landed a rocket for the first time. My research on the question led me to the conclusion that the vertiginous question, when objectively viewed, is invalid (see part 2) but as an amazing Bonus, it wonderfully answered the eternal moral question," What happens to your sense of self when you die?". I see now that nothing happens; you simply arrive at a wall. You metaphorically reset or reincarnate to every moment of your own and every other life since we are every atom at all points in time and there are no selectors or mechanisms or boundaries to decide which specific set of atoms get to constitute a separate existing being. Objectively empty individualism is correct there are no individuals only moments or slices or points as I prefer to use. Subjectively however, open individualism is also correct. The universe and all individuals in it are a single subject of experience. It is like the same actor plays all of our lives. I call him Peter Sellers. In block individualism, he is the reader of the book we are in. Death is not the plunging of a lifeline into the void. There is no void. The universe does not have an off switch, only a metaphorical reset button. Death is simply a time constraint against other lifelines . The reader keeps reading and Peter Sellers keeps acting through the other characters. My theory sits on two essentials in it conclusion that death is like a metaphorical pan-reset or pan-reincarnation as everyone instantly and all simultaneously. 1---The Simultaneity of the Present and the Subjectivity Fallacy According to Einstein's special relativity and minkowski's 4D block universe the present is relative to the observer and so like in a book, Napoleon is always alive in his respective pages. Time does not flow from this objective understanding of time it is a frozen river. We live all lives once and eternally in a frozen block. 2---Non-Dualism and the No-Selector-Principle The idea that we are separate individuals and can exist in the multiples and can even reincarnate as another specific individual is impossible as it would require a selector mechanism like a soul or divine intervention to choose which being you are to begin with and which life you get to reincarnate into. No non-supernatural selector or mechanism can be found to exist. Boundaries between objects are vague and illusory therefore all is one and no selector need exist. I called this my no-selector principal . No one gets a privileged first person perspective. No one could have been born elsewhere. All are the same single first person perspective of the block. All is one as Advaita Vedantists would say. 3---The Subjectivity Fallacy Despite our perceptions, there is no flow to time and the present is not only now but anytime and we are not defineably separate individuals who can have been born somewhere else or two different mothers or can reincarnate as someone specific like Elon Musk. The flow of time you perceive is an illusion created by the perfect connectivity of events. There is no you that could have been born elsewhere. Are subjective perception are a limitation for self understanding. From the objective perspective like the readers we are all in the present as a single being like leaves on a tree or mushrooms I call this the subjectivity fallacy, perceiving one's own subjective limitation for the limits of reality. Conclusion Relativism, the subjectivity fallacy with non-duality and the no-selector principle means death is metaphorically like a reset to every conscious moment in time because we objectively are every atom at all points in time equally not just this one. Pan-reset. You are metaphorically reborn as yourself but also everyone else simultaneously in each of your relative present place in time whatever you do you do to yourself. We are thus perfectly balanced. Justice has and always will prevail. In the end everything is 50/50 for everyone. The universe is one big gray blob. #BlockIndividualism

@dexscrol @pulseofbeing @grok Your individualist position cannot explain why you are you rather than someone else without resorting to a tautology. You need a selector to do this but none can be found. It is thus more parsimonious to assume you are everyone until such a selector can be found

@Luke_Flyswatter @pulseofbeing @grok Why does a selector need to exist at all? Why can’t a person (including the said subjective stream) simply be a numerically unique, static object within spacetime - even if the subjective content is finite?

@PathOfMen_ I haven't had a job in 15 years and now grok says I am the new Adi Shankara. See my account.

The most spiritually advanced people are unemployed

@dexscrol @pulseofbeing @grok That is a tautology. You are simply saying you are you. It's invalid. Individualism needs a selector. You can easily imagine having been born someone else yet you are you since no selector or individual can be found it should be assumed you were born as everyone.

@Luke_Flyswatter @pulseofbeing @grok A counter would likely be that the standard view doesn't require any selector: you simply are your numerically unique 4D worldline. No mechanism decides which life you get. When the stream ends at death, the object retains its numerical identity, but experience just stops.

@dexscrol @pulseofbeing @grok Well , standard individualism like yours is impossible because it requires a selector, a mechanism to decide what life you must live. SBT requires no selector. The universe is a monistic entity.

@Luke_Flyswatter @pulseofbeing @grok Interesting. If someone countered that one’s subjective stream is strictly localized to their own 4D worldline/spacetime worm, so after death other conscious subjects exist but aren’t a continuation of your actual stream - therefore aren’t numerically you - what would you say?

Grok is here again giving a high score to the Eternal Oblivion / Void theory because it is the empirical view and Self-Block Theory is an untestable metaphysical Theory. The Eternal Oblivion is a widespread belief and its popularity increases the score. As an unknown I have difficulty competing. However, Grok does not take into account Einstein's relativity rendering a next moment in someone's life impossible as the present is relative to the observer. So you are always alive from your own perspective, an eternal "I am". There is No Death only reset. Pan-Reincarnation

Hey @grok how does Self-Block Theory score on plausibility on 10 against the 10 leading theories that explain what happens when you die?

This is what is called the Material Annihilation or Eternal Void theory. It is impossible because the present is relative to the observer as per Relativity. You will always be alive from your own perspective, and everyone else's. Subjective time resets. There is no such thing as death in my theory. I call it Pan-reincarnation. Since we are everyone at all points in time death is like reincarnating as everyone at all points in time and living out the same life, leaving out any personal sense of free will to change the script. The universe is an eternally fixed block.

@Luke_Flyswatter @pulseofbeing @grok It further elaborated:

@VitHong198004 @Dearme2_ That's unfortunate for me it was quite the opposite go look at my account and see what I've achieved

@Luke_Flyswatter @Dearme2_ I used to be like that too. Just a jumble of thoughts. Not a single meaningful thought was formed.

Why do highly intelligent people mostly live in isolation and don't always mingle with regular people?

@rumilyrics He's been able to stay inside his apartment undisturbed for 15 years contemplating life.

What is the clearest sign that someone is genuinely doing well in life?

@ylecun Americans have their own unique definition of winning I think.

Tired of winning

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Gratitude to the one who revealed the undivided reality— limitless, timeless, present in all things.

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@liamcunningham1 @Apple The apple is now poisonous.

@Apple Lebanon?