Quick Notes on The Eternity of All Living Beings and Computing As God's Grammar

Some thoughts I had at the store that I want to record so I don't forget them:

The phrase "you only live once" is understood as a cliche, but only because the meaning is not fully understood. The only thing living beings have ever known is consciousness, and all observed with that emergent miracle. We only have known relation of the constructed self to the world. Thus, imagining what death really is poses an enormous difficulty. This is why death remains a fiction of the future tense.

Probably the easiest way to conceptualize death is by asking this question: how does simple matter relate to the world? Any person with some education in science would say: energy is preserved across things, just transferred. All things belong in a lifecycle, from the highest representation (a living organism) that descends into decomposition. The chain from dirt -> plant -> consumption by a smaller animal -> bigger animal -> death -> decomposition -> dirt.

In this sense, we are simply organized matter experiencing itself. This is a temporary and personal configuration that is reduced to an eternal and impersonal configuration at death. This is why all things are eternal.

Some people intuitively understand this. I knew someone whose dad died, and so they buried him underneath a tree in the woods. Although motivated by grieving, his family understood the concept of eternity.

The very fact that we are in a temporary and personal configuration but doomed (depending on perspective) is why the phrase "you only live once" is not a cliche.

Likewise, I also thought about this at the self-checkout lane:

If the logos is God's grammar, and math is the engine of the logos, and computer science is the application of math into a virtualized space, then through computing we create an explicit world of being through God's implicit world of being.

State machines are just the explicit representation of necessity.