The Journey to Qualia: Imagine the Possibility of Everything Becoming Nothing

By Mark Megna and Tony Megna

The Journey to Qualia takes a strange turn from it being the unique subjective experience of the Mind to its ultimate state of Being.
--Mark Megna

The time has come for man to set Himself his highest goal. Just As ape became man; so shall man become Overman.
--Tony Megna

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483618050

Mark Megna

Mark Megna is the author of 3 sports history books. "The Greatest" ranks the greatest baseball players in history by using an "absolute adjusting slugging percentage" relative to the era in which they played. It is considered the greatest formula ever invented for objectively ranking players. "All Net" ranks the greatest basketball players in history by using an objective "production per minute" formula. Controversy arose when it was determined that Charles Barkley produced more per minute than LeBron James and was therefore greater and ranked higher in history. "Leatherheads" ranked the greatest football players in history by using a subjective formula necessary for ranking skill players verse non skill players.

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Table of Contents

Preface

THE OLD TESTAMENT

The Ontology DialoguesWhat is the self?

Why is there anything at all?

THE NEW TESTAMENT

The Glass Bead Game Members Induction

The Milwaukee Art Museum

The Mental Institution

Carnegie Hall

Greenwich Village

Niagara Falls

The Year 2049 A D

Harlem

The Secret Sanctuary

Up to the Mountain Tops

God on Trial

Bird Shit Island—1890 A D

The World’s Fair   2050 A D—Atlantis City

Tibet

MIT—Let’s get high!

Being in TimeTimeless Time

THE LOGICAL AND MATHEMATICAL PROOFS

Thomson’s Lamp

The mind creates the world. The Double Slit Experiment Conclusions

David Hilbert’s Infinite Hotel

Immanuel Kant’s Four Antimonies—The Real Paradoxes

Zeno’s Paradoxes

Megna’s Paradox

Metaphysics of Being

REVELATION

Zen Proverb

The persecution of Christ

The Secret Scrolls—The Secret to Life

Now

Fragments of Olympian Gossip

Art—It’s kind of insane!

House On The Hill A Metaphysical Journey into the Glass Bead Game

The Secret Scrolls of Unrealized Potential

Secrets Scrolls of The Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Secret Scrolls of A Stone Siddhartha—

The Secret Scrolls of Eternity

Signatures of The Glass Bead Game Members guaranteeing the Immortality of Love, Beauty, Truth and Perfection

Suggested Reading and References

Dedication To

Nicholas Louis Scianni

Preface

The Journey to Qualia takes a strange turn from it being the unique subjective experience of the Mind to its ultimate state of Being.

Beyond Divinity

What men have said of God, not yet suffices me, My life and light is One beyond divinity.—Angelus Silesius

While listening to my Cosmic Phone, I caught words from the Olympus blown—Nikola Tesla

The butterfly dream

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Once Chuang-Tzu dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly fluttering and dancing around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn’t know he was Chuang-Tzu. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Chuang-Tzu. But he didn’t know if he was Chuang-Tzu who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang-Tzu. Between Chuang-Tzu and a butterfly there must be some distinction! This is called the Transformation of Things.

—Chuang-Tzu

Just as ape became man, so shall we become overman. We shall, therefore, call ourselves Gods!

—Tony Megna

The Old Testament

The Ontology Dialogues

What is the self?

Andre Gregory:   Did you ever wonder what the self is?

Wallace Shawn:    It’s the person that I see when I look into the mirror isn’t it?

Andre Gregory:   Is it really Wally? Is it simply that?

Wallace Shawn:   I think so. Who or what else would it be?

Andre Gregory:   Maybe it’s something bigger than just that. I mean I really don’t know Wally. You might be right but I hope your wrong in some way.

Wallace Shawn   Why do you say that?

Andre Gregory:   Well I just hope that we’re more than some little insignificant being in this vast universe. Yet, I have this over whelming suspicion that we are just some little ant in the colony going about our daily jobs until we die.

Wallace Shawn:   You shouldn’t feel that way Andre. Of course your life has meaning. Chiquita loves you.

Andre Gregory:   I know my life has meaning but does it really have meaning.

Wallace Shawn:    I don’t quite follow you Andre. What more could you want than this? I mean you love your work don’t you?

Andre Gregory:   Yes I do but there must be something Wally. Maybe I am just seeking answers to existence or something stupid like that.

Plato:   It is really all in your mind Andre or at least what your mind perceives within its consciousness. That’s who you really are.

Andre Gregory:   What’s that Plato? Existence is all in my mind?

Plato:   Yes.

George Berkeley:   That’s right Andre. Everything is in the mind.

Rene Descartes:   That’s the only thing we know with 100% certainty.

Andre Gregory:   So, if existence is in my mind that means when I die I become a nothing again just like when before I was born.

Ayn Rand:   That’s correct Andre.

Andre Gregory:   That makes me depressed to hear that.

Ayn Rand:   It shouldn’t Andre. It should make you exuberant that you need to get on with life before it passes you by. Go tell Chiquita that you love her and start working on that next play. That’s all you can do.

Gandhi:   It is really your soul Andre that you need to be concerned about.

Buddha:   Yes, the soul is eternal. The mind is limited. Concentrate on your soul.

Roger Penrose:    It is the quantum mind which is unlimited. The quantum mind is your soul.

Alan Watts:    It’s everything.

Parmenides:   It’s the One.

Alfred North Whitehead:   It’s Qualia. That transcendent something that no one can really define.

Georg Cantor:   It’s the infinite of all infinities.

Euclid:    It’s nothing. The self emerges as a something for some odd reason as a blip in all eternity but then quickly returns to nothing upon death. It’s the craziest thing.

Hermann Hesse:   It is your essence. It is the most subtle yet glorifiable thing that you could ever imagine.

Achilles:   The self is people’s memory of you. So go do something great!

Why is there anything at all?

Plato:   Have you ever wondered why there is anything at all?

Zeno:   Yea, why would God go through all the trouble to make a universe?

Plato:   Not only did he create a universe but he created an imperfect one as well. Does that make any sense? If you were going to make a universe and you were an all-powerful God wouldn’t you create a perfect one?

Fredrick Nietzsche:   Yea, why would you create a universe that contains evil, suffering, disease, tragedies, pain, death, insanity, etc? Why do people have to suffer horrific deaths such as by fire, drowning, cancer, torture, and all the other crazy things that you can think of.

Richard Dawkins:   If there is a God you have to lay the responsibility for all of that on him don’t you? He must be the cause of evil right?

Alan Watts:   Or, maybe the universe is just some Grand Accident and it just has turned out that way by mere chance. That’s the only thing that I can think of.

Fredrick Nietzsche:   This is why I had such nihilistic views. There can’t be an overall purpose to a universe that is just random can there?

Plato:   Some people believe that this must be some sort of illusion due to our minds being limited. Maybe there is some sort of transcendent perfect world out there but were just stuck in this imperfect world for some reason.

Aristotle:   I don’t know if that makes sense either Plato. Why wouldn’t God just put us all in the perfect universe right away. Why do people have to go through all of this suffering now and, then, let them get to heaven later?

Alan Watts:   It certainly is one of the biggest mysteries in the world.

Fredrick Nietzsche:   No one would purposely create evil would they? Let alone an all-powerful perfect God.

F. H. Bradley:   Maybe God isn’t all-powerful and perfect then? What guarantee do we really have?

Aldous Huxley:   None. We have no guarantee of anything. Hell, we don’t even know if God exists.

Rene Descartes:   Yea, why the big secret. Why not just reveal yourself so that everyone can know what the plan is around here.

Aldous Huxley:   Maybe he can’t reveal himself simply because he doesn’t exist?

Thales:   All this has to come from something doesn’t it?

Zeno:   Maybe all this comes from nothing. Maybe this is a nothing at its foundation? A universe without a purpose that’s un-provable right Kurt.

Kurt Gödel:   There is something to say about that un-provable