The Ontological Time Bomb

The Meltdown of Meaning in the Coming Technological Singularity

“The only possible antidote to the Singularity is an independent, self-referential, fractal self-extracting archive of extraterrestrial origin, created by a Being of much greater than human intelligence; so cleverly designed that when processed recursively through the human mind and intelligence, it unpacks and installs an extensive software upgrade to the ontological operating system of the human mind. The Esoteric Teaching already contains this antidote: the maha-mantra.”

Order and Chaos

People perceive order when they can comprehend simple cause-and-effect relationships in their environment. When these relationships exceed the narrow conceptual bandwidth and psycho-sensory experiential jurisdiction of the limited human mind and senses, people perceive complexity, disorder and chaos. Actually, of course, all phenomena are subject to the control of universal law; our perceptions of order and chaos are therefore only artifacts of our ontological interpretation of empirical reality.

We crave order for the security it brings concerning the animal needs of our bodies and the psychological urge to seek meaning in our experience. If our environment is too chaotic, we can neither make predictive sense of our surroundings nor determine whether a given event is a threat to our survival. Thus, in chaos we cannot ascertain whether we can meet the immediate needs of bodily and psychological survival. Since bodily and personal survival is the primary dynamic of the materially conditioned living entity, our own perception of our potential for survival is strongly linked to our evaluation of the orderliness of our environment. Any uncertainty in this regard causes us great anxiety.

The urge to seek order in a chaotic environment is so strong that developed nations like the USA spend hundreds of millions of dollars on inconsequential speculative endeavors like deep-space astronomical observatories, while their educational and social infrastructure disintegrates from neglect and millions of their citizens rot in prison or suffer lack of adequate food, shelter and medical care. The theories that emerge from these misguided efforts give us a false sense of order and security, even though by the scientists’ own standards of empirical proof they are nothing but empty speculation.

The greatest threat to our sense of materialistic order and control is the possibility of an immanent universal intelligence with a transcendent agenda completely unrelated to our personal bodily and mental desires. Although by definition the transcendent is unmanifest, people spend significant energy and resources trying to trace out this immanence in their outward inspection of transitory and transformable manifested things. That inappropriate impulse provokes them to fix the position and identity of the immanent to an indeterminate impersonal entity, no hint of which ever could be discerned by moving the entire physical universe through the organic senses or their technological extensions. After that fatal error the trail vanishes entirely, leaving the speculative investigator empty-handed, with no possibility of teasing out a final conclusive understanding from the disorder of a chaotic impersonal universe.

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