The Universe we have inherited

There is one characteristic of Perception that I find particularly striking.

It is that we do not decide what we perceive. Nor do we have the power to decide about it.

The Universe, when it was first perceived, gave rise to the scenario and the physical rules.

The physical rules were the rules of data synchrony, necessary for the first two perceiving living beings to inhabit the same scenario.

Imagine two dreamers, each in his dream. If we were to merge those two dreams into one, it would generate a series of errors that would make the scenario totally chaotic.

So, if I dream that I am on a beach, and the other dreamer dreams that he is in a room, unifying both dreams would need to create some synchrony rules to make the dream scenario livable.

Initially there would be lots and lots of synchrony errors, of course. That is, very high entropy.

But as living things replicate and thus more dreamers join the synchronized, simultaneous dream, the more robust it will be.

The more data sources there are to synchronize, the easier it is to create synchrony rules.

Thus, the scenario of that shared dream would grow and stabilize, because the same synchrony rules would apply to each new space created.

That is the origin of the Universe. An unfathomable scenario that was very entropic at the beginning, and that is much more stable now, when there is an infinity of simultaneous perceivers.

But, the most curious thing is that we have been inheriting the scenario from those first two living beings, incredibly basic protocells.

If we were the living beings of today who created a universe from nothing, would it be very different?

Maybe it would. It probably would.

And would the physical rules be different?

Maybe, or maybe not. Perhaps the physical rules are the rules of synchrony of Consciousness and we cannot vary them.

But what is certain is that we have inherited a Universe and a planet that, perhaps, could have been very different if the first living beings had perceived differently.