The Romance of Reality | A Unifying Theory of Everything 

whoa :0 I've never heard of Bobby Azarian but this was fascinating. Just bought romance of reality on audible. You're killin' it with these interviews, thank you so much!

"The Great Attractor At The End Of Time" from the late and great Terrence McKenna rings a bell here. We're getting closer....

❶ Origin Story 3:40 The Romance of Reality seal of approval 7:45 If you could give your 18-year-old self one piece of advice? 9:20 Scientists converging on this cosmic narrative... 11:40 "Is the universe pro-life?" Quartz article & Sean Carroll quote (seed for the book) 13:40 Michael Shermer's blurb on the cover 14:39 Life's intrinsic purpose as a game... 16:24 Tracing the failure of reductionism / premodern, modern periods 22:10 Postmodern reaction ❶ Cosmological Evolution 23:55 Error correction process, life as information processing 26:13 Teilhard de Chardin, science vs religion 29:25 The Romance of Reality's *central argument* 36:35 Process implies the universe is designed (fine tuning problem) 40:30 Simulation theory & intelligent creator theory are the same 41:42 Multiverse or one universe? Occam's razor... ❶ Universal Bayesianism 44:37 Karl Friston's free energy principle (systems) & Jeremy England's dissipative adaptation (thermodynamics) 50:15 Energetic costs of particles self-organizing (entropy byproduct) 54:15 Adaptation = Statistical Correlation = Mutual Information = Model Optimization = Knowledge Creation ❷ Integrating into Daily Life 55:57 Free energy principle as reducing model error 1:02:27 Be curious, minimize ignorance 1:04:00 Example: Origin of the coronavirus 1:06:27 Teleological stance... Omega Point 1:13:09 What are the activities or exercises? 1:14:20 Adaptive power of spirituality? 1:16:50 Free will is real ❸ Cosmic Transcendence 1:18:42 The ultimate question... why? 1:25:18 Cosmological natural selection... was our universe created/simulated? 1:28:07 Our evolutionary trajectory has a moral arc 1:32:25 10 year prediction 1:33:07 Hopf fibration on the cover? Eric Weinstein's Geometric Unity

Wow, so much of what I'm hearing here aligns with my own work on what I call universal embodiment. The teleology to be derived from viewing oneself as a vessel for universal introspection and perception is unbounded, and yields better moral behavior to boot. I'm working on how to apply cognitive science to this perception/awakening system of thinking while acknowledging the role of causality on my own channel and blog site, I'd love to have the both of you on to discuss this in more detail sometime! Great talk.

This interview helped me crystallize thoughts I barely was aware I was having

what a great thing to listen to!! Carlos, I admire your enthusiasm, interest, preparation, and understanding of the discussion; it blows my mind how much you know in the topics of your conversation. Bobby, sincere thanks for sharing your insight & ideas on the in such a universally understandable way. I especially loved how you applied it to living, will be giving that at least a re-watch.

Love this guy going so hard on the universal entropic evolution idea. I was introduced to the concept by Rod Swenson, former Plasmatics hardcore punk band member and also a Yale grad who I think still teaches at University of Connecticut. He wrote a beautiful short paper called "Thermodynamics, Evolution, and Behavior" among others which similarly concludes that the universe must be "active and end-directed" i.e. things have true goals even if it's as simple as a spontaneous structure created while dissipating energy, e.g. a vortex or some charged medium. He explains it in pretty pure thermodynamics terms, so simple it's hard not to be skeptical of the proofs haha but same applies no matter what form of energy you're working with. This is also why Shannon's theories are god tier, every medium or combination of mediums has structure and can be ordered really thanks to conservation of energy and least action being a strict grounding paradigm of literally everything, and living things are innately able to create their own machines for awareness and usage of these mediums and structures for any forces really, e.g. birds with magnetometers in their brains for long distance migration, fish using smell to find their spawning river, our basic senses, etc. Really is magical. It's crazy even to think about how sight started with one cell, then arrays of cells, then entire cortexes for recognizing features, with gestalt processing stages in the neurons right behind your eye to all the trippy weird shit in our visual cortex. All of that had to progressively layer on top of each other to form a much richer, more useful reality. And as a side note. The thing I saw on the one stupidly heavy acid trip I had once was this sort of unfathomable undulating ball made of mirror-glass triangles, and if I calmed my mind it settled down to this thing orbiting a circular center, but as I started to fixate on thoughts it would like open up one of its folds and draw me into one of the mirrors into some fractal space that was like a weird thoughtform of that topic my head was on, and I could "move" myself around these spaces with my thoughts and felt like I had to be intensely focused kind of like how getting too excited in lucid dreams can completely throw them off or wake you up. So then I thought about "god" and saw a giant sun from inside what felt like an infinitely large torus emanating from it with fractal lotus petals, and lo and behold that vague aesthetic is common in Buddhism. I thought about myself and saw a crazy flying mirror telescope thing sticking out of my head (it's hard to describe) like a literal visualization of my brain's multiscale perception. Saw a ton of other bizarre shapes that were all quite poignant based on my thoughts. As I'd calm down again I'd be kicked back out to the "meta thought form" which was this thing that seemingly contained all of my possible thoughts. I had some wicked issues with anxiety before but this experience and couple others somehow made me feel much more alright and connected to life in a very fundamental way. Part of it was seeing just how much calming my anxiety made my thoughts so much clearer and how I could really start to control the hallucinations, and I had not really understood that internally before or really realized how numb I was to the anxiety in my day to day. Was not at all a religious experience though had vivid elements of such. It felt like a lesson in language and the "power of words and feelings" vaguely more than anything for me. Most memorable part really was the way that trip started. I laid in bed and vividly hallucinated laying in a field for what felt like millions of years as the mountains grew and then eroded into vast canyons before my mind completely left my body in that dream state and into the fractal zone till I eventually arrived at that nexus of my thoughts. Felt totally normal in the morning lol.

Disclaimer: Constructive Criticism Follows Eye contact.This video is awesome. Thank you both for sharing mental Gold. Eye contact. The only productive thing I can add at the moment is eye contact. Bobby, if you read this - Confidence is evident in your demeanor as well as the way you carry the path of knowledge and then explain each vector very well. You have it. Just try to improve eye contact with the audience and I think all of the legwork you've put into the research and documentation will come even more full circle, which is why I imagine you took the time to write this book. Example: I'm super engaged because I'm just a data knowledge nerd and Carlos' thumbnail is catchy. You also have a great perspective. I also can't help but observe that Carlos would love to have a chance to engage other than listening to a one-way radio for 40:00 minutes straight. We are sponges. Sponges can only absorb so much in X amount of time. You are seeing many gears in how the World works but missing the actual Human gears and expressions right in front of you. If you make better eye contact you will be able to actually see it but you're looking away so much you totally miss it. Share your knowledge, but just pause (and look at people's faces to gauge their engagement) so other people can also have a chance to share their perspectives simultaneously and then you both grow. I really think you have solid ideas. If you ever want another brain to bounce things off of let me know. 👍

13:23 So well said... Instead of worrying about what people say but fo us on articulating the complex things in a simple way.. 🙏🙏🙏

Warning - long comment A ‘process’ (as apposed to a ‘thing’, an ‘object’ or an ‘event’, say) is a gradual, stepwise, temporally extended change of state brought about by the (lawful, physical, predictable, measurable) action of a reactive agent on a subject, which gradual, stepwise change of state will occur within the subject while ever the agent operates on the subject OR UNTIL THE STATE OF THE SUBJECT BECOMES FULLY CHANGED SUCH THAT IT CAN CHANGE NO MORE. At which point ‘the changing subject’ if it is an evolving life form may enter into a ‘Red Queen-style’ ‘run on the spot’ mode of existence by way of remaining exactly on whatever high ground of perfect adaptedness it has achieved. By their very nature ‘processes’ are quintessentially directional. Given enough time & raw materials a process will (absolutely) proceed towards a particular ‘goal’ of completion. Withdraw the raw materials, or truncate the time alotted, & the process will cease before the entire substrate has changed its state, or it may proceed in a negative direction. EVOLUTION :- EVOLUTION is a PROCESS OF ADAPTATION & as such has built in directionality, & as such, & given enough time and raw materials, will eventually result in a fully evolved, perfectly adapted life form, which fully evolved, perfectly adapted life form will be evidenced by the facts that courtesy of its fully evolved, perfectly adapted state, it will not only be able to live - indeed thrive - any where, at any time, under any circumstances or relocate or terra form to suit, but it will survive & thrive in this manner WITHOUT CAUSING, EXPERIENCING OR INFLICTING ANY WASTE, LOSS OR DAMAGE ON EITHER ITSELF OR TO ITS SURROUNDS, ANIMATE & INANIMATE alike. Living without harming the environment ? One of the many reasons why the Garden of Eden story is as compelling as it is is due to the fact that the occupants were fruitarians. Dining exclusively on fruit not only causes no waste, loss or damage to the plants bearing the fruit, but actually provides them with the service of assisting them in the spreading of their seeds. Dining on vegetables as do vegetarians & pretty much everyone else, causes the harm of vegecide. Apparently Bonobos are significantly more fruitarian - & way, way, way less aggressive - than Pan troglodytes who (in-famously) include fresh caught meat in their diet. Meat eaters inflict incalculable harm on their victims. The fully evolved, perfectly adapted organism will reproduce at almost exactly the carrying capacity of its evolutionarily normal socio-ecological milieu, as to reproduce above that number will create negative, & ultimately harmful, pressures on both the group & their habitat, while reproducing below that number will open the niche to competing species which may do harm to that niche. We consider agriculture to be one of the greatest boons to our species. But it isn’t & wasn’t. ……. Bobby is on the right path. Rightly understood the evolutionary trajectory of life is perfectly clear.

I've put a lot of thought into a similar concept. Really cool to hear someone else talking about determinism being compatible with free will in this way.

33:30 Amazing insight. The propensity and freedom to go either way is free will .... Human beings have to just correct their mistakes... Knowledge in genes😮😮😮

21:31 Existential Reality is so very simple and easy to understand. The basic design theory of Adrian Bejan a scientist in Boston can be another person who has explained this.

I'd love to hear you speak with thinkers who suppose that our model of Time is probably wrong, and hence processes that assume Time (e.g. thermodynamics, evolution) are more likely artifacts of human perception than fundamental constructs...

I still know one thing for sure, from nothing comes nothing. And secound Reality, God & The Universe are 1, 2 & 3. Reality is the environment of God. I love the title of the book. Great vid as always

This is my truth. Can't wait to listen to book.

28:34 Language is a construct of humanity and knowing the use as well as limitation of language helps us know understanding as much more than language and is words. That is Existential Reality which can be experienced and more than words that happens in a homo sapien that is the life atom operating as a humna being in a physical body.

25:34 Life atom coexisting with the physical complicated body as a proposal solves all the missing pieces in the puzzle of Existential Reality

I have a slightly different supposition in regards to your idea that entropy is An existence to pressure organisms to evolve more complexity. In my understanding, it's significantly more fundamental than that, and is actually necessary for any sort of meaningful existence at all, as otherwise, there would be no destruction to make way for change, meaning that the universe would have been created call the end of been stagnant for the remainder of eternity, at which point, I would argue that it is functionally the same as not existing at all. I do come however, agreed that the way it functions does exactly that, and absolutely generates an unbelievable amount of information, in regards to the particular Traits that are most beneficial in regards to not only persisting within this reality, but also, enjoying the experience, as we gonna as conscious beings, are, at the very least, parts of the universe, if not linked to The processing complex that Drives the irreversible computations we experience as time. This generation of information is actually what entrepreneur really boils down to, rather than things tending toward disorder, as, probabilistically speaking, anything could possibly happen, but it is legitimately impossible to do anything without generating information This generation of information is actually what entrepreneur really boils down to, rather than things tending toward disorder, as, probabilistically speaking, anything could possibly happen, but it is legitimately impossible to do anything without Some form of information being generated, within the confines of spacetime, at least, as every change, no matter how miniscule, reverberates through at least one quantum field as a change in its overall probalistoc waveform, which is necessarily taken into account as the particulars of the spontaneous Symmetry breaking that collapses That wave form into our physical actuality Are continuously calculated with each passing shift. Also, if all organisms are just embodied theories about how to survive in the world all particular circumstances are just embodied theories about what is going to happen in the world, brought about by the aforementioned calculations being done on the probabilistic wave forms of the future, then actualized through spontaneous symmetry breaking through interaction with the field that performs a calculation Every time to wave functions interact in a different way, which I would bet my bottom dollar is a conscious field.

One of the most illuminating books on the Universe and the creation of life - riveting!!

1:18:16 - I started reading the free will article in Psychology Today and - at least to me - this sounds more like a compatibalism rather than free will argument. My own sense of determinism comes from a different metric - ie. time, that a person can only have a given set of thoughts and feelings from currents and priors and that if you rewound and replayed the same five minutes of a person's life there's either no reason to believe that they would be perfect carbon copies or, alternately, they'd be coming from significantly different histories but chained to a similar causal relationship with time (if we take the Brian Greene objection to determinism that it's more likely chaos as the model). I think the argument your making is a good one against ideological determinism, ie. the idea that if you can't do anything about what you're doing or not doing then it means you'll be likely to subscribe to simple heuristics rather than be inspired to more, it's a bit like saying that in determinism people couldn't learn (I'd argue couldn't 'not' learn), and it would be a regime where everyone's beliefs based on either facts, emotion, trauma, family history, any combination of the four, would still be playing out in the context of total determinism. What that does is makes the effects of publicly discussing determinism and the existence or truth of something like superdeterminism, very different issues because one's a sociological effect, the other is our sense of time as feed-forward causality and even lateral moves (say premonitions, finding a good medium, having a guide say something) is still happening in the context of time, it could be as complex a cosmic hyper-organism or Donald Hoffman's stack of conscious agents and still be superdetermined (at least from our perspective) based on what they do to our eternal block universe from the outside (and they in turn may be in the same situation from a different level of causality).

34:30 Sounds like he's describing nature going through an inferential procedure. 01:22:10 Are some universes cooperating? (remember there isn't just competition in nature but also cooperation, in fact that's the decisive thing that levels it up) Question to the FEP-conscious audience: If the universe is an organism with a Markov blanket, where the observable universe (the inside) are the internal states, is the dark energy part of the set of external states of the universe? In other words, is the dark energy part of "the environment" which the universe is trying to model according to its capacity?

@carlos - how do we message or donate to you?

I like Ray Kurzweil's answer to the question, "Does God exist?" He responded: "Not yet."

6:15 This book is just the ultimate existential Reality explanations... And how it helps us live in daily life is the fun part...

QM classicalized in 2010. Juliana Mortenson website Forgotten Physics uncovers the hidden variables and constants and the bad math of Wien, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Einstein, Debroglie,Planck,Bohr etc. Start at start: “The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy “, Mark McCutcheon for proper physics.

37:16 Particles of two types .. physical stuff and cognitive life atom

Could we have a situation where Smolin's Fecund universe and Penrose's Conformal cyclic universe are both correct?

As far as any inherent subjectivity of the universe, I'm sure not all people who think As I do, that there is no inherent objectivity possible,will agree with my (necessarily subjective) perspective. The way I see it is that we can never truly know anything objectively, due to the fact we are Necessarily limited to a subjective perspective, and even if we can get All human beings do agree on something, or can even get experimental proof that's something will always happen within a certain set of conditions, the inherent nature of a certain set of conditions implies subjectivity. Honestly, it's mostly semantics, but I think it's a useful thing to keep in mind, and anyways, The issue a lot of people have with subjective ism is the idea that nothing is better or worse, but Those aren't both qualifiers that really just boiled down to the usefulness of something to a particular person in a particular situation, which is inherently subjective, as science is likely not nearly as good for someone who is incurably terminally ill as finding religion. Also as far as the continued complexity is concerned, I think the universe exists that way necessarily, as a by-product of the fact that Our physical reality Thelma I think, is brought about by irreversible series of computations that collapse the probabilistic wave functions of the future into specific, Actualized circumstances constances of our physical reality. Information is what I think is the fundamental building block of the universe, after all, it makes up both energy, Which is just information encoded as frequency and amplitude (which also makes up masses), but also Explains why consciousness chooses to insert itself into this universe, too take advantage of this actualized calculations that seem to happen as a byproduct of this particular mode of existence, (which it likely set in motion, IMO), So that it can actually delete enjoy the experience, rather than having to constantly proctor the calculations it's doing, in order to continue to have experience. Plus, the universe literally comes from nothing, so it's working pretty fucking hard to collapse all of the negative ones and ones that consciousness keeps pulling out of the universe as metaphorical ask back into nothing this, because it turns out this universe really doesn't like things to change, at all, ever, and will actively work to return them toPlus, the universe literally comes from nothing, so it's working pretty fucking hard to collapse all of the negative ones and ones that consciousness keeps pulling out of the universe as metaphorical ask back into nothing this, because it turns out this universe really doesn't like things to change, at all, ever, and will actively work to return them to The most "balanced" state possible ( Meaning the most probable state, as The most probable States will take the universe less calculations to pop out)

42:43 Finite orderly existence That simple

I honestly don't understand why there is any argument about determinism anywhere as from a psychological perspective, there is likely not a single human being that has ever been alive that is truly had free will, in that significant majority, if not literally all of humans choices are driven by their subconscious beliefs, preconceived notions, thoughts, feelings, or simply their biology and their circumstances, Interacting with The mental programs they have picked up over the years, most of which they are likely not even aware that they are running, much less How they will be affected by given situations, or which ones are liable to appear when, and what that means for their internal circumstances that they use to govern their so-called decision making. Honestly, this is why self knowledge, such as the idea of self actualization that Carl Jung put forward, as essentially a westernized mix of all Eastern spiritual traditions, is so important, as without it, you will always be a slave to your programming, at the absolute best.

Ooh ya. More unification in the station.

Excellent conversation, so many interesting ideas, many of which I can get behind. However, I'm uncomfortable with one of the fundamental assumptions being that agents are information processing organisms, or that the brain or genome "encodes" information for prediction or knowledge. It sounds mostly correct as a model, but I have not heard a convincing argument for it which incorporates a meaningful ontology and metaphysic. We need better language for this conception of information because I think there are categorical errors being made. I'm seeking conversations about this complex issue.

41:21 What we imagine we make that is the use of imagination

39:46 We can flee or correct things on this planet and salvage it😇😇😇😇

31:28 Genes are just the potent physical body given the requisite environment.

Smolin already said much of this

Btw Eric’s love for the Hopf fibration is overrated. It shows up a lot in physics but it’s not *that* profound. It’s like when you’re doing geometry and you see circles all the time. In physics and quantum computing you see hopf fibrations popping up here and there. It’s cool to know but it’s not, like, the secret to the universe. And no, sadly it’s not the topology of fermions.

20:05 God as a form of Morphogentic field or energy that is static motionless omnipotent non depleting and reason for all entities being in motion and progress....

22:17 Science based on empirical data is incomplete. Instead of do observe and infer the correct way is to observe learn infer without interference. All science talks of other things remaining constant and that is the axiom that is incorrect

Why does it feels like I started something

Have John Vervaeke on!

The only way you can reach the conclusion that consciousness is emergent is by ignoring every NDE testimony and every 5-MEO testimony, and Idealism, and Vedic philosophy.

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Kookoo physics.