Computers consist of software, energy, BIOS, and hardware. Yet this entire system remains meaningless without a user. Only when someone uses and perceives it does it gain significance. The same applies to creation. From the universe to the atom, everything consists of what we might call consciousness (software), energy (attention), and matter (hardware), with an intermediate layer we may refer to as the soul. But here too, something essential is missing as long as there is no user-no that which perceives. Software we call mind or consciousness. Energy we call attention or force. Matter we call body or perception. The soul functions as the energetic intermediary in which all of this comes together. But who or what uses this whole? Just as an architect forms a plan, a construction site provides materials, and skill and energy bring a building into being, so reality unfolds. Yet no plan, no building, no universe has meaning without perception. And here our language falls short. We have no natural word for that which perceives. When we call it "God," it quickly becomes religious and abstract. Yet it is undeniable: there is perception, and therefore something must be perceiving. In English, we call this awareness. In Gnostic traditions, it is called Gnosis. The reality we inhabit can be understood as an interface. Just as we interact with our devices through a graphical user interface (GUI), we perceive life through a natural interface: a 3D NUI (Natural User Interface). Everything we experience appears within this interface. But who is looking? In essence, it is Gnosis-the direct, unconditional perceiving-that perceives. Yet through our free will, something remarkable arises. By reflecting, interpreting, and especially by identifying with what we perceive, we create a substitute perceiver. I call this Ivision One. It becomes clear that everything we experience-including Ivision One-appears within the same NUI of creation. And that only one thing truly perceives: Gnosis.
Computers consist of software, energy, BIOS, and hardware. Yet this entire system remains meaningless without a user. Only when someone uses and perceives it does it gain significance. The same applies to creation. From the universe to the atom, everything consists of what we might call consciousness (software), energy (attention), and matter (hardware), with an intermediate layer we may refer to as the soul. But here too, something essential is missing as long as there is no user-no that which perceives. Software we call mind or consciousness. Energy we call attention or force. Matter we call body or perception. The soul functions as the energetic intermediary in which all of this comes together. But who or what uses this whole? Just as an architect forms a plan, a construction site provides materials, and skill and energy bring a building into being, so reality unfolds. Yet no plan, no building, no universe has meaning without perception. And here our language falls short. We have no natural word for that which perceives. When we call it "God," it quickly becomes religious and abstract. Yet it is undeniable: there is perception, and therefore something must be perceiving. In English, we call this awareness. In Gnostic traditions, it is called Gnosis. The reality we inhabit can be understood as an interface. Just as we interact with our devices through a graphical user interface (GUI), we perceive life through a natural interface: a 3D NUI (Natural User Interface). Everything we experience appears within this interface. But who is looking? In essence, it is Gnosis-the direct, unconditional perceiving-that perceives. Yet through our free will, something remarkable arises. By reflecting, interpreting, and especially by identifying with what we perceive, we create a substitute perceiver. I call this Ivision One. It becomes clear that everything we experience-including Ivision One-appears within the same NUI of creation. And that only one thing truly perceives: Gnosis.
Zusammenfassung
My physical body was born in May 1946 and I was downloaded a few months before that into the premature little body that learned to listen to the name Peter Gabriel Visser after birth. In the ¾ century now behind me, many events have passed my review. It has been an interesting life with very varied experiences. Many situations I can remember, but it has struck me that I never remember myself! No matter how detailed I try to reconstruct my past, remembering myself is impossible for me.
