I saw this whole reality as a virtual reality, where our body is the avatar.
Consciousness is the player. The body is the avatar.
Then I started applying the logic of virtual reality, just like our virtual reality games.
Consciousness is the player. It makes all the choices. Consciousness is a choice-making machine.
I define consciousness as awareness that makes a choice.
The way this has to take place is our physical reality is a virtual reality that has evolved. It wasn’t programmed. It’s evolved.
So from a scientific viewpoint, from a computer science viewpoint, using computers, information, and that sort of things as metaphors.
So I’m not saying it’s a computer.
I’m saying computer science provides me with metaphors that I can use to describe this Consciousness.
This is a fundamental aspect of my Life is a Role-Playing Game framework in terms of understanding yourself as a both a “player” and a “character” that you are playing.
It mirrors with Richard Barrett’s perspective that we are not a body with a soul but rather a soul with a body.
It also mirrors how Rupert Spira describes us as being like a character playing a role on a stage. It’s just that we’ve forgotten that we’re playing these roles because we’ve become so immersed within them.
It’s why I’ve said before that the primary difference between children and adults is that adults have forgotten that they’re playing making believe. In effect, most adults have forgotten that the institutions of society were once imagined and created. Instead they believe that they are permanent social structures. But they aren’t, they can be imagined and created once again.