04-26-2020, 12:46 AM
(04-22-2020, 01:33 PM)Strannik Wrote: To understand our universe, you should look at it from the point of view of the generative adversarial neural network.
In a very general sense, that brings to mind the twin tendencies of the growth of illusion, and the growth of consciousness which penetrates the illusion. That's like the principle of the GAN: one system falsifies, one system tries to detect the falseness, and the ultimate result is the "illusion" which is "real enough" to withstand the test. That's like what the logos produces, following experiments, in order for a vivid and variegated learning experience to be possible.
In the cosmos, there's also the repeating patterns of smaller-scale illusions produced by smaller systems, existing within larger scopes or systems. There's more local and more universal ways of considering it.
I'm also reminded of something more specific, which has more to do with the activity of higher-density manipulators. Their capabilities can be roughly imagined by analogy with technical systems.
A book, The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts, by Joe Fisher, in large part focuses on experience with a channeling group, where a variety of spirit guides came through a medium in trance. The guides had human identities and claimed historical backgrounds, from ancient Greece to the trenches of the first World War, and others.
The details which were provided as interaction and bonding with those personas proceeded matched the historical settings, when Fisher later researched the characters in detail. But the persons themselves had never existed on Earth; they were like portraits of people who could easily have been there, but never were.
New characters were produced when the channeled "source" felt that something new would better match the preferences of a participant. When one "guide" was tired of, a new character was introduced as a replacement, with a new faked background and simulated personality.
A trick used by the deceptive source early on was to classify people into two kinds of souls, one much less developed than the other, reducing the group to the "better souls" who had been judged the best targets for the manipulation. One of those excluded, a man learned in esoteric matters, helped Fisher see through the deception when, after a time of having been taken for a ride by the "guide" assigned to him to the detriment of his personal life, he distanced himself.
Fisher is also a tragic case of someone who, having investigated matters of otherwordly manipulators, was driven to suicide not long after writing that final book. Shortly before jumping off a cliff, he claimed that the spirits were still after him. Perhaps the entity or entities did not appreciate a light being shone on their nature.