The Illusion of Reality

Drafted 1988 published 2000 revised Jan 2012

To imagine that reality is an illusion or that everything doesn't exist appears to defy logic. But before you dismiss my ideas, let me first discuss why everything is an illusion. Nature has managed to convince the mind that the physical world is real, like the sounds detected by the ears, the odors consumed by the nose, the sunset perceived by the eyes, coldness by the skin, sweetness by the tongue, and beauty by the mind, however, all these sensations are nothing but simply a figment, a perception, a false impression of the mind. They are all nothing but illusions created by the spherical brain.

But, how do we know Reality is an Illusion? How do we know the conscious mind is not an illusion? How do we detect if consciousness is real, if we even don't exist at all?

Tough questions! Here are my tough answers... 

(i) The First Illusion is known as the Trick of the Shape. 

When we look at a tree we perceive that there is a real tree. But as we come closer to examine, there is actually no tree at all. There is only a "Shape". An invisible shape made up of leaves, twigs, branches, barks, and roots - the building blocks that form the shape of the tree. In a similar manner, as we inspect these building blocks more closely, the leaves are also but shapes, the twigs and branches are also but shapes, and all the remaining parts are but shapes as well. Probing one level deeper, dissecting every piece microscopically, all these shapes are still made up of shapes and spaces. In other words, the whole tree is nothing but invisible shapes and empty spaces. It might look real in the macroscopic world but in truth, it doesn't exist in the microscopic realm. It is simply an illusion just like a mirage, a product caused by certain conditions made by the environment. The tree is simply an illusion. The tree doesn't exist.

Now analyze this farther for a moment. If we remove all the leaves, can we still consider the tree a tree? If the twigs and branches are removed, is the remaining trunk still a tree? If we get rid of the trunk and only leave the roots, are the roots still a tree? If we cut all these various parts and file them together in the ground, are all these parts still a tree? Can we call a trunk a tree? Can we call a trunk and its twigs a tree? Can we call a tree with leaves and twigs and branches but without roots a tree? If we say no, then this tells us that a tree only exists if all its parts are present. But each part is also each whole. Does this mean the whole only exists if all its parts exist and vice versa? Does this mean both must exist to exist?

When we look at ourselves, we see a solid shape of ourselves. We know for a fact, that we are made up of atoms, and atoms are made up of 99% space, but why it is we have more shape than space? In addition, if atoms are not alive, why we are alive in the first place?

(ii) The Second Illusion is called the Trick of the Light:

Scientifically, everything is black! Without light, we would see nothing. Without the sun, there will be no red, orange, yellow, green, violet, indigo, blue, and all the million and billion colors. White light causes objects to have colors. A red apple is red because the red color is reflected and the rest of the colors is absorbed by the apple. Apples can also be blue, violet, indigo, or black depending on what color is reflected. Thus, colors depend on light. Without light, colors are illusions. Furthermore, lights are waves --electromagnetic waves -- pulsating at different velocities creating the mirage of colors. Hence, colors are simply illusory pigments of our imaginations. Moreover, when a photon reaches the speed of light, time shortens or stops, and space contracts to a point. This means that if a photon is moving at the speed of light, then it is actually not moving (d=0), it is not actually occupying any space (d=0), and it is not even in existance at all (t=0). Light is simply an illusion (Lawsinium Photons. 


(iii) The Third Illusion is called the Trick of the Senses:

Neuroscience tells us that all thoughts, feelings, movements, decisions, and perceptions are the result of signals that pass through cells called neurons. The various sounds our ears hear are all but mechanical signals (bits of energy) created by the vibrations of air movements. The objects our eyes see are all but optical signals (pixels of energy) made up of inverted images. The odors that our nose smells are all but chemical signals (droplets of molecular energy). The flavors our tongue tastes are also chemical signals (pieces of chemical energy) and the sensations our skins feel are all but sensory signals (binary energy) encoded and decoded in the brain. All these energies are nothing but simply Dots of Information.

Remember too that there are other people who use their ears to see things, hands to talk, and feet to write. There are animals that can see at night without eyes, that can see things using echo locations and that can hear or smell things hundred miles away. They may all process information using various mechanisms, but the bottom line here is that all biological sensors are basically the same. They mechanically act on the principles behind the sensor-actuator principle I dubbed the Zizo Effect. If you want to learn more about this whole signal process, read my article on The Software Illusion. 

(iv) The Fourth Illusion is called the Trick of Consciousness:

This simple thought experiment, The Lawsinium Train Effect, is an actual model that proves nothing doesn't exist. It demonstrates that the physical world is simply an illusion created by the conscious mind. The physical self and the universe are entirely not real. The only physical entity that exists is (could be) the mind that simulates the reality of existence. 

The illusion of existence can be physically observed and experienced while inside a moving train. Imagine you are comfortably standing inside the train. As the locomotive enters the dark tunnel, a hundred times longer the entire train, the feeling of darkness begins to take over the mind. As the last carriage passes through the gate, you start to experience the feeling of emptiness. Your eyes begin to focus hardly trying to see if things still exist. You glance at the ceiling, the windows on your sides, the seats around you, but because there are no lights, you see nothing.

As hours pass by, your eyes eventually resist seeing anything if anything still exists. In an instant, your eyes begin to see darkness. Total darkness. Then confusion kicks in. Your mind becomes confused. It begins to ask: “Am I trying to see everything or am I trying to think of everything”. Suddenly, the function of seeing stops and the function of thinking starts and becomes clear. Anxious and concern, it begins to check itself physically ... mentally. It checks your legs, your hands, your physical body -- but because everything is black.... it really doesn't know. The mind could no longer even recognize the physical world. It only recognizes itself. 

However, something behind your head, floating above and outside your mind, is creating all these realizations. What is it? Is it your soul? Is it your consciousness? Or, it is something else? Whatever it is, you feel it doesn't belong or even a part of your mind. It is just there! Let me named it "The Oculus" or the "I". 

As the train approaches the other end of the tunnel and as the light enters inch by inch, the mind slowly switches its sensors and begins to adjust eventually seeing and feeling things again. The mind now begins to see your hands, your legs and feels the whole physical body once again. As the mind settles down, eventually you come back to recognize your surroundings. Then you pause, think, and contemplate -- you ask again yourself the same questions -- do I exist or am I a creation of the mind? Is my thought an illusory schema created by the brain? Does my consciousness make objects to exist? Can consciousness be represented with material objects? If it cannot be codified with a physical material, is consciousness real? 

The great train adventure just shows that the mind can play tricks on us. The thought of existence can be created by the mind. The mind can create the illusion of reality. Everything is simply a figment (pigment or colors) of one's imagination. In other words, everything that exists in the universe, if a universe even exists at all, does not physically exist ~ The Codexation Dilemma. 

But, are there other ways we can prove that reality is an illusion? How do we know that you and I exist? If it is not the mind or consciousness, what is the natural law that provides proof of our existence? How can we prove the "Oculus" exists? The answers can be found in my bookOriginemology. 

(v) The Fifth Illusion is called the Trick of your Binary Reality:

Life is a Duality. There is always twoness in our world we called Reality. Up and Down, Left and Right, Male and Female. All things in the universe are governed by dualpairing. A piece of stone on top of another stone can be considered stationary or not moving. However, the stone is actually moving as well. The stone is always actually experiencing two types of realities at the same time, that is; the Reality of Motion and the Reality of Stationary. The stone may seem not moving but it is actually moving as well.

 
(vi) More examples of Illusions: 

The notions of life, freewill, ghost, god and things we sense may be experienced as real but their essence is nothing but all illusory. They are experiences that seem to be true or exist to be real but in a closer look are merely illusions. ?

1. The Illusion of Freewill - Does freewill control our lives or we control our lives? 
2. The Illusion of Emotion - Is pain, love, joy, or crying real or true? 
3. The Illusion of the Law - Are we governed by an abstract living instruction or by a physical natural entity?
4. The Illusion of Creation - Does design need a designer or can creation be created without a creator? 
5. The Illusion of Things - Why do we have the illusions of time, force, shapes, and organisms? 
6. The Illusion of the Supernatural - What for are the illusions of ghost, soul, or spirit?
7. The Illusion of Life - Do we live in a natural world or are we just part of a mechanical universe? 

The more I realize that everything is an illusion, the more questions I encounter, like: Why do we perceive things as real? What is its evolutionary advantage? Why does illusion manipulate our brains? Why does the brain create the illusion of things? Why does reality hides as an illusion? If illusions have used, what are they for? Could the purpose be like a mirage of water in a desert that encourages thirsty travelers to stay alive in order to survive? What about other living things like plants and animals, does illusion also manifest? How do we know that something is true or real? Is there a difference between Reality and Truth. Am I real? 

In my other book, Evolution of creation, I asserted that nature as a whole is a living organism -- an organism parallel to the social groups of living organisms like microbes, ants, and humans. And in each society, every individual is a living instruction that plays an important role in keeping its community alive or with life. This is the form of life that makes Life more of an illusion than reality. To get a glimpse of what I am saying here, please see my alternative definition of life.

Nature is a living organism and Energy is her language.

If life begets life then it follows that nature is alive and can communicate with us. But if nature is considered a non-living thing, then it follows that all its creations - plants, animals, humans  - are all non-living things as well. We may not notice it, but if we just listen and focus, Nature always talk to us. Just like humans, dogs, and plants communicate, Nature also speaks to us. Energy is her language.

(.......not yet edited and to be continued........)

The Law of Nature:

" Environment and Information are the ingredients that created everything."

This excerpt, including why Nature is a living organism, is scientifically explained more clearly in the book Evolution of Creation by Joey Lawsin.




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God did not create creation; Creation created God.

In my first book entitled Creation by Laws, I implicitly proposed a fundamental concept of an unknown theory known as Dualpairing. It is the first general instruction of creation that matches up two entities called dualpair. Man and woman, white and black, A and Z, North and South, positive and negative, zero and one, up and down, roots and branches, crest and trough, right and left, high and low, yes and no, something and nothing, matter and energy are some examples of these dualpairs.

After presenting these examples to the public, I found out statistically that most of my readers— students, teachers, parents, atheists, theologians, and scientists—believed at first that I was talking about the opposite of a thing. And when I declared that all things are paired, tenfold of questions start to pour out such as:

If the partner of man is a woman, what is the alterpair of a bacterium?
If roots are to branches, what about the alterpairs of leaves, flowers, bark, heartwood, sapwood, sap, and everything else that goes into making up a plant?
What is the alterpair of a whiptail lizard?
What is the alterpair of π?
Why is Z the alterpair of A and not B or C?
How do you explain asexual reproduction?
What is the alterpair of siphonophores?
Why all things are dualpaired?
How to find an alterpair?
What is the formula that supports the Theory of Dualpairing?
Where is the proof that souls or spirits do not exist?
Why is God just a part of the evolution creation?

I realized, from these series of queries that humans tend to be biased against ideas that are new to them and simply cling to old ideas. People always believe in the norms accepted by the many, the standards established by our society, the belief systems outgrown by individuals, and the status projected by the so-called experts, without questions. What fascinates me most from their feedbacks is the false notion that humans and animals cannot propagate ever without sex. This wrong impression and the questions identified by my readers in my first publication, which by the way was experimental in context, will be thoroughly explained in this edition. The "Aha" moment or flash of revelation I had experienced as I was conceptualizing Creation by Laws will also be shared as you go through every page of this book.

Evolution of Creation will prove that “God” is not the creator of everything. This misconception about creation by a divine being, and other evolutionary theories, which always fall in the same pit that a single organism, a single particle, or single species gave birth to the entire universe will be straightened up in Chapter 3 of this book. This chapter will also reveal how the natural dualpairing of Materials and Instructions created the universe.

Chapter 2 will demonstrate a remarkable logical approach that suggests ape could evolve to man or a more controversial case from mud (non-living) to man (living things) without actually presenting any fossilized transitional "missing link" at all. Chapter 6 will provide some astonishing out-of-body experiences that I have encountered in life. These personal encounters, including various testimonials from people who participated in the scientific studies on astral projection, will offer proof that souls or spirits don’t exist. This chapter will also discuss the dual pairing of something and nothing that places God as part of the evolution of creation. Chapter 4 will introduce the evolution of numbers, formulas, and dimensions. This section will also unfold the solution in deriving the formula behind the Theory of Dualpairing. And, Chapter 1 will explore and expose some popular evolutionary theories about how the universe was created based on the principles of divine creation, biological evolution, and natural interventions.

In Chapter 5, the origin of life by dualpairing will be explained in detail. Viegenesis, which is a discipline that studies the process of creation by the dualpair of spontaneous instructions and vitalic materials, will be the highlight of this chapter. Time, which is but another form of force-energy that flows minute by minute, frame by frame in any system, will be addressed too.

I have an outmost obsession finding the answers to how the universe came into existence. What is the basic unit, the fingerprint of life, which makes up us and all the things that surround us? Where did we come from? What is the purpose of our existence? The more time I spent looking for answers, the more questions come into my mind. These uncertainties are the inspirations that push me to believe that somewhere, somehow, there is a single natural code or a basic pattern that is just waiting to be discovered. Luckily, I FOUND THEM. And this masterwork will change everything you believe.

"Christianism attributes all creation to god’s intelligent design.
Darwinism attributes all creation to naturalistic evolutionary design.
Lawsinism attributes all creation to instruction and material design."
by ~ J.Lawsin

"Nature is the Mother of Information." ~ Joey Lawsin.