My entry for the Information Finding Championship Round 2 is an abstract thought about the Universe. Though it is written somewhat definitively as a statement, the entire article is meant to be posed as a philosophical question. I hope you enjoy the thought.

What If…..

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the way that we think about god is all wrong? What if instead of God being a personified deity that has dominion over its creation, it is actually a singular force of energy that not only makes up the universe but also permeates through it? Like consciousness permeating through the mind a singular force of energy that I am referring to as god, permeates through the universe.

The belief that separate objects exist in our reality is actually all just an illusion. It is a powerful and elaborate figment of our imagination that is created by our own mind and held in place by language and thought. But beyond the illusion a singular energy exists – god.

God is an energy that simultaneously creates itself and experiences itself, much like a dream. Dreams are both created and experienced by the dreamer instantly, at the same time.

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This singular force of energy, again that I am referring to as “god,” has created an infinite network of data input sources in order for it to experience itself. We humans refer to these input sources as “the senses” which are housed within conscious beings or living organisms such as humans, animals, plants, bacterium…etc. These conscious entities take in data in order to allow god to continuously experience and interact with itself.

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In this way, living beings are actually just filters.

God is a singular force of energy, a “wave function” of infinite potential 1 that has the power to implement any change imaginable and to make anything possible. However, living beings (organisms) act as filters which are meant to continuously collapse the wave function of infinite potential, in order to create the finite reality which we experience and survive in, in the present moment of time

The wave function collapses because of the conscious awareness of all living beings.

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Though each individual organism collapses the wave function and creates their own reality, an objective reality is maintained by the collective expectation that things will remain the same after each preceding moment. This is why reality is both subjective as well as objective, and why there are finite discrepancies between the subjective experiences of the individuals who make up this reality. In this way, reality is largely just an agreement that is maintained by the minds of those who are interacting with it.

If it weren’t for conscious beings collapsing the wave function, there would be only chaos – an infinite potential with no direction.

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Things would pop into existence and disappear immediately or objects might shift with each passing moment. Subjective conscious beings, cannot exist in such a state, so they need to collectively maintain and uphold an agreed upon reality. As such, one individual organism does not have the power to change the system of reality that is currently set in place to any major degree. This allows for change to happen within reality but in a manner that allows life (or consciousness) to continue to exist. The conscious beings of the universe must continue to survive so that the singular force of energy that I am referring to as god, can continue to experience and interact with itself. As such, change is slow, finite and at time unnoticeable. Nonetheless, change occurs in small increments continuously.

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Evolution may be the process of the collapsing wave function on a grand scale happening over vast periods of time. The changes to the organisms that exist within the world at a current moment of time (i.e. dinosaurs to humans), represent the experiment and maintenance of the collective god - self.

Ultimately, the universe is a singular energy. The universe is god.

IFC: The Beginning of a Story

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The IFC crew, housed within its city aboard its spaceship, travel through the universe. Acting as voyagers, they travel through space to explore the parts of themselves that are most unknown and which have up until this point in time, remained hidden. They seek to learn more about the singular force of energy that they have come to recognize as god. With open curiosity, their search begins. Where it will lead, they do not yet know.

Thanks for Reading

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Footnote 1. “Wave function” refers to the idea in quantum mechanics that particles of physical matter exist as a wave of infinite probability until they are observed by a conscious awareness, at which point they collapse into a particle with a finite outcome. See the “Double slit experiment” for further understanding.