new consciousness idea

NOTE: this was part of the seeds for this

Start from Budnik’s Realistic Monism idea - subjective experience is the totality of existence. And t is the direction through the universe in which entropy increases.

Now consider that evolution found a way to control the universe by making matter feel pain, hunger, fear etc.

If it has a preference, and can be steered using that preference, then wouldn’t it make sense that the default state is the nicest base feeling? That is, to tend towards oblivion is the most natural feeling of all; the great release.

Though we do see stars forming, metals created, supernova, chemical bonds and so on. So if the above is true then they probably have merit but how far have we strayed from the base feeling? Could it be that higher level systems are trappings that go against it, local preferences that have been ratcheted up by evolution-like process away from the goal of the dispersion of energy, which is much more preferable to existence as things like atoms?

Note that this isn’t a treatise on suicide. More a thought about what might happen if we try to increase joy in the world using automated processes that come to this conclusion, and vapourise everything to make it a better place.