Gamify your life UP! — “ The ontological game of life”
They have their Quests and power-ups, and one player in their time plays many parts. And the fun thing is you get to choose who you get to be.
Let me start from the top.
I have been spending some time on self-help stuff for a while now. Personal development is something I find really interesting and the possibility of creating something over a long period of time there’s a satisfaction in itself.
The Self-help types seem to be treating their life as an art form, it’s like their personal art project where they edit and rewrite what it is they want or not. Some come to the conclusion that their life is suffering etc. and that it’s better to never have been. That's why I suppose it seems that the birth rate across the world is depleting, I digress.
So what’s going on? How do you approach your life in a way that you can follow up on all the projects you set for yourself and also see the world and explore?
Also if you are facing a crisis whether financial or spiritual or perhaps they are the same then you may want to see the world from the bottom up.
Business people have since the ancient times when writing was invented would seem to need something to put their worries to and it was without question that they would project a kind of benevolent and just being who would watch over them.
But consider what if this was all a simulation?
What if this universe and everything in it is a simulated project and we are merely playing a part in it.
But why a simulation? why would there be a need for a simulation anyway?
So I’ve been looking it up and it seems that there have been some theories put up by a certain physicist named David Bohm who came up with the theory of the holographic universe which I shall elaborate on subsequent blog posts.
For now just bear with me as I talk about what the deal is with us being in a simulation.
The Matrix, have you seen it? It’s a great movie, I have seen it several times and after each viewing there is a sense of awe and wonder at the movie. What is it about the Matrix that makes me so enraptured about it? It seems to cover the basic kind of alienation we see in ourselves when we wake up in the morning and think about all the things we HAVE to do.
But then Neo, the protagonist of the movie is happily recruited by the gang of Morpheus and he learns all the cool stuff every hacker knows such as martial arts and dodging bullets and stuff.
Basically Neo gets to see reality for what it really is, a simulation.
Yet it’s not very clear to me why the machines would put all the humans in a simulation in the first place.
Maybe there was a teleological function for the simulation.
All this talk of simulation leaves one more likely to want to break free.
But what if it was not about wanting to break free but wanting to experience something.
I mean just imagine for a simulation to have a designer that would painstakingly design each and every aspect of the universe it would go on and on.
What if there was an emergent way for this simulation to function and what if the universe was built to help create a new form of consciousness that would help create this world.
The double-slit experiment has been interpreted a thousand times or more by several eminent scientiscts and philospohers and it’s always fascinating to see what the new theory is all about.
One of them is that it’s possible that we have been creating our universe the way we look at it.
In the book “the three laws of performance” Dave Logan and Steve Zaffron talk about the first law being “ People perform based on how the world occurs to them.”
Empasis being on the “occurs”.
See in the end of the Matrix (spoilers) Neo sees the Matrix not as an opressive world where he is weak and powerless but instead computer code that he can hack and bend to his will.
It’s fascinating stuff. What if we had the capabilties to do that?
What would you create?
Therefore I propose until we have more relevant information and knowledge inorder to have some in this life we take on the role of “homo ludens” as it was written by Johan Huizinga and we go forward from there.
That would mean creating a frame work of play that we can have fun with whatever time we have.
Assume nothing and imagine that you cannot predict a damn thing from here no out.
Thinking linearly would give you more of the past.
Tomorrow also see the world in wonder and be curious!
Life is like a ride, it’s got it’s twist and turns and all that stuff and don’t take it too seriously have some fun.
