POETICKS

Re: egotomic reality or the least possible full-scale universe, it serves nicely as the basis of practically any religion you want to believe in.  It can have a God, maybe even an omniscient one, so much more able to expand than other egotoms that it could come into contact with all other egotoms and push them where it wanted to.  I can’t see how it could be omnipotent, though, for there should always be uncovered parts of egotoms they could use to do something on their own.

No God is in my own egotomic reality because it’s more elegant to think of all egotoms as equal but slightly different from one another, and nicer.  On the other hand, I like the idea of demi-gods–egotoms slightly superior to others, me, of course, being one of them.  Being the greatest of them, in fact!  Such an egotomic reality would explain why it does seem that perceived reality consists of a number of material entities ranging from the nearly infinitesimally simple–and able to effect perceptual reality–to extremely complex entities like you and I who seem able to effect perceptual reality relatively greatly.

It seems likely, if something like egotomic reality exists, that non-living entities are not manisfestations of egotoms, but perceived matter rather than real matter.  Put oppositely, I’m saying only living creatures and perhaps carbon atoms are egotomic, everything else being part of some egotom’s semblance to us.  Simple example, the egotom that I’m aware out of touches egotom 539,750 at location 3.  Wait, I need to start being more precise.  Location 3 of the egotom I’m aware out of touches  location 87 on egotom 539,750.  As a result, I perceive my friend Ed, who is aware out of egotom 539,750 and his awarenessless clothes, shoes,  scent of his after-shave lotion, and three square feet of the floor he’s standing on.

I like that better than a perceptual reality all of whose quarks, or whatever entities are the true atoms of our universe, have an awareness.   (I say there are such things as the  smallest entities in this universe even though it could as well consist of infinitely divisible entities and remain as simple because I don’t like infinity and won’t allow it on the premises.)

Good and Evil fit easily into any religion based on egotomic reality, Good being orderliness, Evil being disorder, as they are in most religions.  This contradicts my belief that in perceptual reality, the Good is a balance between excessive order (boredom) and excessive disorder (confusion).  So my egotomic religion supposes that once an egotom achieves stability at more than eighty percent, say, of its locations, it experiences pain and shivers its surface out of near-stasis, and begins again to seek eighty percent stability, but not a jot more.  I think this condition may be a necessary one even for an egotomic reality at its simplest.  Otherwise, total stasis might occur.  Great for Buddhists but–well, it’d be Nirvana, or everlasting near-infinite happiness–which my irrational human brain doesn’t like although it’d have to be the best possible state.  Ah, in that case, time being infinite (the one infinity I’m compelled to accept), egotomic reality would have already achieved total stasis and I wouldn’t be writing this.

It wouldn’t be fair to the egotoms on the outside of the egotomic universe, for they would have exposed locations.

As I’ve mentioned in my other writings about the versions of universe I’ve hypothesized that allow for a form of re-incarnation (here it would be egotomic continuation sans memory), a wonderful result of the existence of such a universe is that it gives one a rational reason for trying to make the universe better, to wit: by doing so you will make it better for you the next time you are a human being.  You will also make it better for others, which will make them more likely to be nice to you then, too.    I like that much better than your doing your best for others in order to escape damnation.  I can’t conceive of any universe run by an entity that would punish anyone for anything since one can’t help the body something gave him, and because there are so many easier ways for omnipotence or even extreme immortal power to deal with harmfully defective entities, like isolation.

I think that may be all I have to say about egotomic reality.  Surely it should make me famous.  It’s as interesting as Jung’s baloney and makes more sense.  It won’t.  But if a world-religion is derived from it, I hope they give it a good name.  Not “Grummananity.”  I like “Bobbianity,” though.

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