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Inspired by the writings of Bernardo Kastrup (Idea of the World, Why Materialism is Baloney, More Than Allegory) in which he sees individual minds as alters within a mind-at-large. Also draws from superstring theory, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Good Place. ---- -- Bernardo Kastrup: Bernardo Kastrup is a key proponent of the idea that mind is the ontological primitive - that everything we know and experience exists inside the medium of mind. To that extent he hypothesises that reality consists of a mind-at-large (cosmic mind or 'God') and that we are individual consciousnesses within that mind. This can be likened to alters within a person suffering from dissociative identity disorder (Split/James McAvoy).  Bernardo uses whirlpools within water as an analogy for an alter - since a whirlpool is made of the same water that surrounds it. However, the spiralling movement is a metaphor for self-reflection (it is the back and forth internal dialogue that creates self-awareness). As such, each of these spirals represent an alter - an individual consciousness. In their entirety, they represent "Life, the Universe, and Everything".  What this piece doesn't show is a propagation (of the waves of the alters) which would eventually interfere with each other - similar to ripples on a pond. This would reflect connection between individuals and in turn the interference would change the nature of each alter. As such they are currently all 'lone wanderers' or perhaps just asleep and dreaming. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung  The spirals also represent different individual paths or journeys. A path to enlightenment perhaps, or an inner path to knowing oneself. The very edges of the spirals, are the veils and boundaries between an individual's consciousness and the mind-at-large, much like the event horizon of a black hole is the boundary between the universe and what lies within. Perhaps upon death the barrier dissipates and we become one with Universal consciousness (the mind-at-large) - in the same way as when a whirlpool disappears, it becomes one with the ocean.   ---- -- The Good Place:  Jeremy Bearimy and Chidi Anagonye... "Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave. And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be."   ---- -- Superstring theory:  According to string theory, everything in the universe is comprised of tiny vibrating fundamental strings. Moreover, every one of these strings is identical. The only difference between one string and another is its resonant pattern, or how it vibrates.  Each of the 54 spirals have been created from a single 'string' but from a different initial form (straight line, curve, loop, wave etc). And each string when vibrating at a different frequency (varying input values), creates one of a myriad of outputs. Such as as a violin string produces different harmonics/sounds, superstrings produce the different harmonics which correspond to different elementary particles. Perhaps the universe is just one giant symphony, which given our emotive ties with music would be serendipitous. ---- -- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:  The reason the 54 alters have been arranged into a six by nine format...  42 is the answer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.”  And the question to that answer is "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" “What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe”

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