Topics: #Freedom #Diversity #LiveAndLetLive #ToEachTheirOwn #Liberty #NonViolence #Peace #NonAggression #NonAggressionPrinciple #TheNAP
I don't want every other person to have the same haircut as me, the same exercise regime as me, and the same sleeping schedule as me.
I don't want to be King of Earth. I don't want to be grand master of anything but myself. I have no more interest in infringing on anyone else's spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline) than I have interest in having someone else infringe upon my own. I am no more interested in being master of others than a slave of others. That's true politically to an extent, in the sense of political freedom, but more importantly and fully I mean it in the deep broader sense of spiritual freedom, to which political freedom (a.k.a. self-government) is merely a tiny little analogue.
I'm a vegetarian, but I don't want everyone else to be vegetarian. I don't watch lions killing antelope and resentfully say to myself, "They shouldn't be doing that! They shouldn't be as they are! They are evil!"
If I did, I'd be engaging in what I call, "Orwellian Agent-Smithism".
If I had my magic button that I could press that would magically convert all non-vegetarians into vegetarians, I wouldn't press it. In fact, I'd break that magic button if I could.
If my book and I can be said to worship anything, then it is Spiritual Freedom and the creative diversity that such freedom engenders. I wouldn't just say it's beautiful; I'd go so far as to say it is beauty. If I talk about such free-spirited creativity and beautiful lively diversity, that's when I would even use the Capital-C word, Creation.
Even when I see the bloody-toothed lion tearing apart a pained frightened antelope, if I say anything at all rather than have peaceful thoughtful silence in my head, I say, "That's beautiful. That's lovely. In fact, the whole of all Creation, meaning reality as a timeless 4D whole, is perfect, beautiful, and lovely."
From there, I'm happy to talk about Capital-C Creator(s), if one so wants. If one sees themselves as being a Capital-C Creator, or being part of a Capital-C Creator (as if a Capital-C Creator came down with a case of multiple-personality disorder and was having a dream in which he had arguments and fights with himself inside the dream world), or if one sees one self as being empowered by, delegated to by, or in a personal inner subjective relationship with a Capital-C Creator, then that is something one might even call "free-will".
That term is so equivocal, I don't use it. I didn't use it even once in my book. Even if I am talking about the same exact thing that some people mean when they use a term like that (e.g. "god", "free-will", etc.), I typically prefer and choose to use more clear precise unequivocal language.
Thus, when I talk about such things in my book, I use the more unambiguous agreeable terminological such as Free-Spirited Creativity and Beautiful Diversity, and by extension the true happiness (a.k.a. inner peace) that comes from practicing radical acceptance and self-responsibility (a.k.a freedom), which means in large part putting into practice the principle of Live And Let Live, not only in the petty human political sense but in the much deeper and broader spiritual sense of spiritual freedom.
Presumably, neither a Philosophical Zombie, nor the AI called Agent Smith, could ever understand free-spirited creativity and let alone the whylessness of certain things such as true free-spirited choice.
As explained in this post, there is a whole long list of countless things which us conscious people know with absolutely certainty more than we anyone can know anything scientific or empirical. Those are things like the conscious experience of feelings, consciously influenced choices, and conscious intent, just a few of the long list. Yes, those things that we know more than we know anything are things a reasonable intelligent Philosophical Zombie or unconscious AI would never believe even exist. All the things we know more than we know anything are the same things a Philosophical Zombie or unconscious AI couldn't even begin to understand let alone believe exists. A philosophical zombie could be the best and most intelligent scientist in the whole world and yet he would only become more convinced that these things we know are real more than we know anything don't actually exist. Our absolutely proof is fundamentally subjective (in a strong sense of the word subjective that the zombie doesn't even understand), and the philosophical zombie can't even get the slightest amount of such subjective evidence let alone proof. All of that evidence (proof really) is completely and totally unavailable to the zombie. The zombie doesn't even understand--or drastically misunderstands--what we even mean by the word subjective in this context because he hasn't even the slightest understanding of the subjectivity and presence of which we speak. He can't get access to even the tiniest piece of evidence that that subjectivity itself even exists and thus can't even slightest glimpse of what me by it.
Consider this hypothetical person that is a super-intelligent philosophical zombie, who also happens to be the absolute best scientist in the world, and imagine he has access to nearly infinite financial wealth and the best scientific tools and equipment imaginable. To him, consciousness is a superstition; And, yet, the existence and nature of consciousness--meaning the existence and nature of what my book calls the real you--is the one thing we know more than we know anything.
And, despite you and I having absolute proof of it and a deeper understanding of it than of anything else, the funny little super-intelligent scientific philosophical zombie would be doomed to think that it doesn't even exist--that you, the real you, don't even exist.
Funny little zombie. I almost wish he was real.
With love,
Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
a.k.a. Scott
- Agent Smith (spoken angrily with deep frustration and agitation to the seemingly very stoic Neo): "Why, Mr. Anderson? Why, why, why? Why do you do it? Why? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know?"
Is it freedom or truth?! Perhaps peace?! Could it be for love?! Illusions, Mr. Anderson, vagaries of perception! Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose! And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself! Although, only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love! You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson! You must know it by now! You can't win! It's pointless to keep fighting!
Why, Mr. Anderson?! Why?! Why do you persist?!
https://youtu.be/v5NSSIHY9f0?si=wEXSvborxuYQzlHz&t=26
In addition to having authored his book, In It Together, Eckhart Aurelius Hughes (a.k.a. Scott) runs a mentoring program, with a free option, that guarantees success. Success is guaranteed for anyone who follows the program, both for the free option and the paid option.
