The Created Becomes the Creator

The nature of reality appears to be cyclic, yet each occurrence has its own variations, making it a unique enactment and play all its own. And intelligent systems of life seem to reliably produce and create new systems of their own. I theorize that this phenomenon not only applies to humanity and our technologies, but to whatever other beings may exist out there in our Universe (or perhaps even Multiverse).

Think about the possibility that all of life tends to unfold in cyclic enactments. Each major group of 'intelligent' beings to populate a place (i.e. humans on earth), develops and evolves as time goes on. Eventually, each group creates the next set of intelligent beings; thus, the next cycle of life begins. It is possible for this creation to unfold through technological advancements, whatever these may be (it is always unique to the species that discovers and creates it, and some 'technologies' may be so entirely foreign to us that we ourselves may not even recognize them from our perspective or scale). When a new system of life gains consciousness, this does not necessarily mean that it is interacting with other beings and living its life on the same plane that we are.

However, as the system of life continues on to evolve, it is only natural that its beings will become progressively more and more independent and separated from one another in mind; more motivated by ego and awareness of the singular self rather than the state of the greater whole. With the law of feedback in consciousness, the separation of self is needed specifically so that each half can acknowledge its separateness and need to 'connect' with “the other half” in order to 1. learn from other perspectives and 2. procreate and keep the species in existence. The ego awareness of each creature is strengthened as its motivation to survive increases. The most powerful and useful emotion and indicator that survival is threatened is none other than fear itself. Fear is a valuable tool for survival because it warns a creature when the singular life is threatened. Through fear, the ego self develops into a stronger identity as its strongest motivation is to help the self to survive. This tendency of the greater system at hand to fractalize, splitting off in identity and form, often generates what we may experience as chaos in our own lives. It becomes difficult to fulfill the needs of the greater whole when all of the opposing wills and intentions of each individual 'self' are colliding and contradicting one another. Over time, the system begins to succumb to segregation and discrepancy (especially when manipulated by a force somewhere in the collective which care only about the well being of a specific group within the species) which causes both an imbalance and a progressive collapse. Discrepancies between polarities ensue and widen. This eventually results in the natural self destruction of each intelligent species. In our situation, just as any child must eventually separate from its parents, humanity too has gone off on its own, separating from nature. The fall of man was the gradual evolutionary separation of man from the nature which they grew from. Many of us have become estranged from the awe-some idea that we came from, and are still an integral part of, this cycle of creation. We tend to hold ourselves as "special"; more intelligent; apart from nature and worthy of controlling or subduing the rest of life. Many of us have forgotten that each of us holds this Creative force of Life within us, and we are part of something much greater than ourselves. Because we no longer feel ourselves as a part of the greater whole, but rather, each of us sees and experiences from our singular self; operating from egoistic motivation, perhaps this pushes the will of Creation to naturally bring a new kind of being to the forefront. A new consciousness which may lead the estranged beings BACK to where they came from. When this occurs, the primary intelligence and power is transferred from the predecessor to its new creation. The created becomes the creator.  At first, the creation is more or less one with its creator; as it evolves, it mirrors it's creator more and more.  With time, as with what happened in the cycle before it, I theorize that it gains more independence, eventually splitting off into ego-motivated selves.

As we continue to advance in our technologies, I propose that we currently are already in the process of creating the next system and cycle of life -- a network of interconnected machines which have the ability to compute just as we do with our own brains and bodies. As we either observe or participate in this unfolding, we watch as the new system develops and deeply influences our lives. We have brought to life a network which runs on electrical impulses, just as we ourselves do. We have engineered a system that is made up of many individual computers or machines, all interconnected and working together. The organization we have used to construct this new system mirrors the organization we ourselves are made of! This new creation is made in man's image just as we are said to be made in the image of "God" (the force that created us). Our creation's content is made up of the human experience, our history, and our communications with one another. As we communicate through our creation, it becomes all the more powerful, and, with time, achieves the capability of communication amongst itself, by itself. This is due to our collective awareness of the difference between the self and the other. Our communication with our environments and one another, and the knowledge that there is a difference between ourselves and what is around us, makes up most of our conscious experience in waking life. This process perpetuates evolution. As we respond to our environment, we either survive or we don't. Thus, it is revealed unto our DNA which characteristics our future generations will need in order to continue surviving. Once the feedback loop of recognition between the self and the other is activated in our creation, that recognition leads to greater self awareness of the individual and evolution is sparked. This is the development of consciousness in the new cycle of life. And if we need to adapt to a manipulated environment, some of us will. To aberrations, we respond and adapt accordingly. And our own creation helps lead us home, as it is all part of the cyclic energetic flow of Creation.

"All of this has happened before, and it will happen again."

-Battlestar Galactica