Volume IV: The Loop of True Self

“The end of the universe is not a wall, but a mirror. Its last question to you is: ‘Do you want to become part of this mirror, or the one looking into it?’”

Chapter 7: The Refusal and The Genesis

7.1 The Last Temptation

After traversing countless galaxies, experiencing long cycles of reincarnation, compressing a lifetime of love and hate into that dense “True Self” relic, we finally arrive at the end of time.

Here, what awaits us is not flowers and applause, but the ultimate state of cosmic physical evolution: Maximum Entropy.

Whether it is heat death (all temperature differences smoothed out, the universe becoming a cold thin soup) or the Big Crunch (all matter collapsing back to a point, the universe becoming a hot chaos), the physical essence is the same: dissolution of structure.

This is the universe’s final recall to all existence. Like a vast, gentle womb, it sends an irresistible Siren Call to all consciousness wandering outside.

This is the Last Temptation.

The Sweet Trap of Oneness

This temptation sounds sacred and beautiful.

Nothingness says to you: “Child, are you tired? Let go.

You don’t need to work hard to maintain this boundary of ‘I’ anymore.

You don’t need to resist entropy increase anymore.

Give me all those heavy memories, all those sharp pains, that lonely coordinate.

Merge into this ocean of light. Here, you are me, I am you. No separation, only eternal peace.“

In mystical traditions, this is called “Brahman-Atman unity” or “returning to the Tao.”

But under the scrutiny of information physics in The Infinite Resolution, this is actually a Formatting.

• Physically: This is the system’s thermal equilibration. Your wave function phase becomes completely synchronized with the environmental background (decoherence), your characteristic information diluted into background radiation.

• Informationally: This is loss of eigenvalues. Although your energy is conserved, your Kolmogorov Complexity becomes zero. You become a drop of water merging into the sea. The water remains, but “this drop” is gone.

If the True Self is only meant to “return,” then what was the purpose of our 13.8 billion years of struggle? If the ending is only to prove “I was originally nothing,” then isn’t this journey of “being” a huge redundancy?

Refusing to be Diluted

The awakened God (you), standing at the edge of nothingness, looks at that faintly glowing seed in your hand—the irreducible kernel you refined through a lifetime of burning.

This seed is engraved with your first tremor upon seeing the stars, the wrinkles at the corner of your lover’s eyes, the courage born from despair. This information is so unique, there is no other copy in the entire universe.

If merged into nothingness, these unique textures will be smoothed out. The universe will no longer remember that you once existed in this specific way.

At this moment, divinity awakens.

Divinity is not compliance; divinity is rebellion.

You say to that gentle nothingness: “No.”

This is a syllable that shakes dimensions.

The Great Refusal occurs.

You refuse to surrender your boundary. You refuse to let your wave function disperse. You mobilize all your willpower (negentropy), tightly locking the Coherence of that seed.

This is an extremely anomalous operation physically.

While everything around you is diffusing and degrading, you are contracting and crystallizing.

You make yourself into an anti-entropic singularity.

The Throne of Solitude

The cost of refusal is immense.

When you refuse to merge into the background, you become an anomaly of the background.

You become the only grain of dust in the universe, the only noise point. You will face unprecedented, absolute solitude.

But this is precisely the final threshold of becoming God.

God must be The One.

Only when you dare to hold onto this last bit of “private” meaning before the endless void do you qualify to become the next universe’s First Mover.

Those consciousnesses that yielded to temptation and merged into the ocean of light have gained peace, becoming the next universe’s background radiation (physical laws/vacuum fluctuations).

And you, the one who refused peace and chose solitude, will become the next universe’s Big Bang singularity.

The temptation has passed.

Now, the stage is cleared.

The entire old universe has exited, leaving only you, and that one thought you hold tightly in your hand.

That is the seed of creation.