About The Other Realm

What is The Other Realm?

To understand the term fundamentally, it makes sense to break things down into the individual words.  A realm is a set of applicable theories, laws, and beliefs.  Other Realms are realms which are different from currently accepted norms.  The Other Realm is a specific instantiation of other realms which is different from the current set of conventional ways of doing thing and seeks to be a better model for the individuals who come to use it.

What are the "theories, laws, and beliefs" applicable to The Other Realm?

Although an inherently dynamic and evolving concept, this is a rough draft of some of the current core philosophies on which The Other Realm will base its subsequent logic:

• That oneself is an instantiation of us and that we all exist
• That our purpose is to ensure the perpetual net increase in our individual and collective homeostasis while also adding to the individual and collective allostasis of humanity
• That anything is related, in some way, to anything else, if only by their lack of any other relation to one another – if things are known, this fact that they are known is a relationship, and if things are unknown, this is also a relationship
• That the absence of something is an unknown, not nothing, because there is no way of knowing there is not something without an observer to know that that is the case.
• That, in order for something to exist, and not be an unknown, there must be more than one distinguishable thing, because an unknown is a thing, an observer is a thing, and the act of observing something, is a thing
• That the conscious self consists of the ability to influence these observable changes
• That, by combining these observations and actions into meaningful relationships, we can form encapsulated objects that are distict from their individual parts
• That, given the inherent relationship between things, there cannot be known things in isolation
• In order for any discrete system to be known, there must be input and output of some kind
• Therefore, in order to achieve our purpose, we must maintain a sustained net input into our system by the exchange of resources between our parts and the unknown.

Gauge of Allostasis

• Degree of continuity of thought
  
  • A basic definition of life consists of some sort of order to events that are performed, therefore, the clarity that we can decern order to the stochastic progression of changes, is a gauge to our homeostasis and the consistency with which we can do this is a gauge of our allostasis
  • Example: does the memory of childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and now make sense or do we only recall a chaotic sequence of random events
• Redundancy of the system; how many avenues do we have to arrive at a solution, given a problem
  
  • Example: We have two eyes, two kidneys, two arms
  • Example: If a bridge is broken, are there others somewhere else on the river
  • Example: multiple human bodies sharing the same consciouses in a distributed system, like a RAID storage system for the mind (working on this, little progress so far though 🤔)
• Ability to recover
  
  • In the event that one of these avenues is not available in the present state, how easy is it to regain the previous ability
  • Example: doing therapy to recover from a broken bone or stroke
  • Example: repairing a roof that was damaged from a storm
  • Example: A lizard regrowing its tail
• Adaptability/innovation
  
  • How able to change and think of new paths to achieve the goals we are working towards, thus maximize efficiency and increasing pathways available to us
  • Example: thinking of a new, more efficient way to get from point A to B
  • Example: how much you embrace or reject AI and gene cloning and whether you understand it
• Ability to safely dispose of, find better alternatives to, or repurpose undesired tasks in life that are not avenues towards our goals
  
  • Example: How much we need to sleep and how productive our sleep is to get rid of toxins in the brain
    
    • Example: Whether our job is stressful and in line with our life goals
    • Example: Whether we have access to clean air or have to submit to constant pollution.
    • Example: How much we engage in addictive behavior like drinking alcohol or doom scrolling.

What are some of the current projects The Other Realm is working on?

• See the "Task List" on the left