"Where Is Yesterday? (The Weird Metaphysics Of The Past)"
Transcript: "(00:01) I believe that one of the most damaging ideas that took root within the psyche of humanity is this belief or idea that time is passing we typically divide everything up into three categories you have the future the present and the past but you don't have to think very long to see that none of these categories actually mean anything you have the future which is quite literally hypothetical and unknowable you have the present moment which makes absolutely no sense to us this is the conscious experience we still have no idea what to (00:44) do with it and then you have the past this is our big proof that anything is actually happening at all we obviously can't see into the future so we are constantly checking or pinging the past and this constant game of Spot the Difference to see if anything is actually changing and if something isn't exactly the same way how we last perceived it we say that something happened this is our big proof that things are actually happening or is it is anything actually occurring I know that this already sounds a tad bit out (01:24) there but I want to explore and try and demystify in this video this concept of the past because I'm starting to believe that it actually holds the key or the secret to understanding Consciousness and the first question that I find myself asking about the past isn't what is it that question follows naturally a tad bit later but it's where is it where exactly is the past because despite the fact that it is the only thing that we are able to cling to to prove that anything is actually real from our (02:05) perspective it is completely invisible it completely disappears when I got up this morning and I messed up my sheet I left out of the room for a while and when I came back my sheets were still messed up but I wasn't there messing them up if it weren't for the fact that I knew they were like that because of me I would think you know a ghost was in the house my entire reality would fall apart and perhaps this is what it's like to have some type of mental degenerative disease Alzheimer's or something like (02:40) that this entire construct of the past is held in place by memories my memory of me doing this act is the only thing that is able to make reality makes sense and yes I know laws of physics blah blah blah the fact fact of the matter is it's all stored within memory if I forgot that an object at rest stays at rest then this reality would appear nonsensical to me it is this word memory that is the star of the show and what I am beginning to believe is that all of reality is some kind of memory and this term memory that I'm using is a bit (03:26) tricky to sufficiently express but it is anthropocentric I'm not necessarily referring to our ability to recall information but rather information in and of itself what exactly is it all of reality is comprised up of information and information is some kind of memory I was trying to explain this in my previous video I've been going on this tiate about information for quite some time now within information Theory you have data and you have information data is just chaotic noise it is nonsensical tidbits of things once this chaotic (04:12) noise becomes pattern it becomes information information is just patterns information patterns connections relationships they all mean the same thing and something happens when something becomes information when something becomes a pattern it cannot change a pattern is something that cannot change by our only definition of it it is something that consistently repeats all information cannot change or it ceases to be information and once we discern anything as pattern something odd happens it gets lumped into the past (04:56) we sort of toss it into the past this cons constuct or idea of past begins to emerge what the past is is something that cannot change and all things that we perceive as being unchanging gets thrown into that domain the past is more like this Virtual Enterprise of patterns or information it is frozen in time it cannot change and I guess if I had to summarize this idea that I'm trying to get across in a few es it would be that whenever something new happens the past gets bigger whenever you experience anything whenever you learn anything you (05:41) are contributing to the Past because the only thing that you are able to experience is information Consciousness is the apprehension of patterns one of my commenters on a recent video said something similar that the human being is an information Gathering machine I guess it depends on how you define machine but the conscious experience appears to be this unpatterned this this chaos that is being converted into order information patterns however you want to phrase it and once this occurs it gets dumped into the past it becomes stored (06:21) as memory and for us for whatever reason this chaotic domain this realm of potentiality of UND decidedness this unknown is what we call the future if you are a more psychedelic type who often tend to be the people that are interested in these sorts of topics the late Terrence McKenna would probably say it's novelty if you're a normal person you would just say that time is passing but what we experience as time passing is this chaotic domain of the future being revealed to us and I use this term revealed intentionally because I (07:02) ultimately believe that reality is timeless or in other words all of reality is information all of reality is pattern and patterns don't change they stay the same forever we see this within chaos theory and statistics with Central limit theorem that these chaotic systems these things that we believe don't have any rme or Reason to them these things that don't appear to follow any patterns are indeed patterned they're just patterns that we are not yet able to see reality is already patterned it is (07:43) already Timeless and it appears that the conscious experience is the Enterprise of seeing more and more of these patterns from our perspective it looks like we are learning more but I believe that more is actually being revealed to us this chaotic or unknown domain of the future isn't being discovered but rather it's being remembered and we are sort of like these living Memories We are these funnels through which this data gets compiled into patterns our organic body is quite literally a series or compilation of patterns but there is (08:25) some kind of ghost in the machine there is something more to it where it's remembering the future and this remembering of the future is what we call experience what we call Consciousness and as I mentioned this isn't really anthropocentric this isn't about you forgetting where you left your car keys there is some deeper more fundamental component at play I'm not sure if you can call it you know generalized Consciousness Big C consciousness and psychism you take your pick but The Human Experience human (09:05) beings we are just an iteration of this greater overarching process I think that the stage for this process is much larger than everyone gives it credit for we really like to restrict things to this more human domain of understanding but I ultimately believe that there are folds and pockets of this process that are unfolding in all kinds of cooky and wild ways or in other words what it means for something to happen is different in different places to put it a different way the same way we view the future the same way that we view time (09:45) passing there are domains or pockets of reality where that's different it's something that is unique to them or in other words there are places where there are things that learn differently what it means for something to be a pattern is presented to them differently I don't know if you want to call it different intelligences alien intelligences higher intelligences different dimensions different domains Divine realm Heaven hell I have no idea but my main point is that this Human Experience isn't all that there is to (10:26) the greater scheme of reality reality is fractalized it is something that is being itself in different ways over and over again and I think that the healthiest way about conceptualizing this greater arching Consciousness if you want to call it is that we are nothing like it it is completely alien to us but it is everything like us from a statistical lens within set theory it is the one thing that cannot exist the set that contains all other sets including itself perhaps there is a giant caveat Perhaps it is just some (11:10) giant unbounded said it doesn't contain itself you know within ticism this is the the monad It is believed to be this sort of like this Singularity it is where all being comes from and it was so great that it literally couldn't contain itself and began overflowing pouring out and this is how we have reality today but getting back on topic on this subject of memory I believe that the past never really goes away is as I stated in my previous video it is still here we are all living in it it's why this world doesn't appear completely (11:51) alien to you at all times it's kind of as I mentioned with Alzheimer's it's here it just exists in some kind of virtual State that's difficult for me to put into words everything that happened yesterday is still here we are all sort of standing on top of it it is crystallized beneath our feet if everything that happened yesterday wasn't here we would just fall into some sort of chaotic nonsensical state it would be this planet-wide version of Alzheimer's disease and it isn't just (12:27) Human Society reality is self is hosting this memory I have no idea how many birds landed on the tree outside of my apartment but that particular question has an answer the information is still out there somewhere no information is lost not one single nanobyte and to wrap this video up similar to how a computer functions I think that memory takes up space it takes up some kind of space and it eventually reaches a point where it maxes out and at that point nothing else is able to be processed nothing else is (13:10) able to happen and this applies to us that somehow some way this same motif of people throughout history claiming that there is some end some kind of collision transition there is something that is happening that is ultim timately coming to an end when everything is certain nothing else is possible or as I commonly phrase it on this channel if you knew everything there would be nothing left to imagine whatever this Cosmic factor is this being it wanted to imagine it wanted to forget so that it could experience possibility again and (13:53) when this dance that is doing with itself is over it will be left with all that there ever was bu itself nothing but memories we are all going to experience this once you reach the end of your life when it's time to say goodbye to this world you're going to realize that it was just you this whole time you can't bring anyone with you and all you'll be left with is memories because it's all that you ever were it's all that anything actually is but I'm going to end the video here I to dive (14:30) deeper into this topic on my members platform and I'm going to put the video on locals as well so if you are interested in this specific kind of insight consider supporting the channel or if you just like my content in general all donations all contributions are greatly appreciated I'm also going to be doing some new things over on the members platform as well as my other social media Avenue so cons consider following me on those places if you want to keep up with me I moved into a new apartment which I really enjoy but it (15:06) has its own hosts of different sounds and Acoustics and I also move closer to a train and while it's good for me I enjoy the the sound of the train passing by you may hear different sounds I may sound different sonically on this video so keep that in mind uh I think that's all I wanted to talk about on this video and until next time y'all have a blessed day"
