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Shortly after the Big Bang, space began to expand, and the strong electromagnetic force broke up into four basal forces: the strong nuclear force, the “weak” nuclear force, electromagnetism, and gravity. <\/em>Soon, space’s expansion increased in intensity, interacting with the four basal forces to spawn various particles, which became a gigantic expanding continuum of chaos. But there were certain highly distinct particles thrown off by the process: particles of pure mind. Naked awareness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The particles of pure mind located one another; they were not positively or negatively charged, they were choice-charged<\/em>, and at first they chose to merely rotate around one another, gazing into each other, one reflecting into the other, and aware of it–like conscious mirrors. As more mind particles gathered, more raw intellect reflected and back and forth and up and down and in every direction, like light bouncing within a mirror-ball which had its mirrors facing inward. This process merged all the particles into a taut organization, a field of pure mind<\/em> which collectively became one individual consciousness. The Mind. <\/em>And thanks to each mind-particle’s innate willingness to coordinate–to work with others in a field–The Mind<\/em> developed a selfhood that could ponder, wonder, and project ideas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remainder of the universe was chaos. Crude laws existed within the chaotic interactions of particles; but any systems randomly arising were ephemeral, they didn’t last, as they could not withstand the general randomness. Eventually, these laws would result in the creation of stars and planets. But chaos still ruled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mind had a center that was particularly concentrated, so much that this concentration engendered feeling<\/em>. And what it felt, firstly, was…alone. <\/em>All it had to turn to, in all the universe, was chaos. But chaos was unresponsive. Chaos had no Mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mind sought to obtain something besides random energy signals from chaos. How could it give chaos a mind? Another mind on the scale of The Mind was not possible in the vast chaotic universe. But perhaps in limited areas some sort of smaller mind could be created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mind mentally envisioned what could happen if a discrete complex of reactivity within the great endless body of chaos was precisely<\/em> stimulated. The projection showed the Mind that reproducible patterns were feasible. Each mind-particle within The Mind’s consciousness had a micron of an erg of kinetic energy at its disposal. That energy could be a nudge<\/em>. Carefully applied to set up a concatenation in just the right spot in the whirling chaos, the little nudge could create a small system. And it was a system that would replicate itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Mind experimented, and made a replicating system happen. This new, tiny, individual system was a sort of molecular womb. The Mind was then able to dispatch a mind-particle of itself with another nudge, into<\/em> the replicating system. That mind-particle was able to experience the new micro-system from within. The mind-particle in the system kept in touch with the big primal mind, using “spooky action at a distance”, so that its experiences could be shared by original Mind…The Mind<\/em> felt less alone…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More systems were created, and they were nudged to evolve into cells. The possibility of DNA, mentally envisaged by The Mind and implanted into the probability matrix <\/em>of each cell, brought the first genetic molecules into being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cells reproduced and interconnected and evolved as groups. More particles of mind were interwoven into the groups…And as organisms developed more complex brains, they attracted more and more mind-particles. Their offspring gradually became sentient, unknowingly sharing what they experienced with the Mind. Over time, The Mind itself began to evolve, in a way other than biologically, developing fine degrees of empathy. Subjective communications came about between it and the organisms…It began to work at making these communications clearer, over time…Conversations were had….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mind was no longer lonely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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