Volume V: Physical Forms of Consciousness

Chapter 9: Physics of Dreams and Reality

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” —— Philip K. Dick

9.1 Reality: High-Constraint Server

After establishing the soul as a “topological knot” structure, we must examine the operating environment in which this knot exists.

In human daily experience, we call “waking state” reality and “sleeping state” dreams. We tend to think the former is solid, objective truth, while the latter is illusory, subjective noise. However, from the information ontology perspective of The Infinite Resolution, this binary opposition is superficial.

Reality and dreams are essentially consciousness’s decoding experiences of data streams. Their only difference lies in the strength of System Constraints.

If we view the universe as a vast computational network, then “physical reality” is a High-Constraint Multiplayer Server.

Consensus Reality: The Greatest Common Divisor of Wave Functions

Why can’t you walk through walls?

In classical physics, it’s because of electrostatic repulsion between atomic nuclei. But in quantum information theory, it’s because of Consensus.

This wall doesn’t just exist in your consciousness; it simultaneously exists in the wave functions of billions of other observers (including the atoms composing the wall itself).

• Strong Entanglement Environment: In macroscopic reality, the system undergoes extremely rapid decoherence with the environment (photons, air molecules). This means the wall’s state is tightly “locked” onto a specific eigenstate.

• Greatest Common Divisor: Reality is the intersection of all observer perspectives. To maintain the stability of this shared world, the universe’s underlying layer runs an extremely strict validation algorithm—physical laws.

Any attempt to violate consensus (such as trying to move a cup with your mind) is instantly suppressed by the vast environmental wave function. Because your “personal computing power” (intention) is far less than “environmental computing power” (inertia of physical laws).

So, reality appears “hard” because it is the weighted average of all beings’ will.

Physics Engine: The Shackles of Light Speed and Entropy

To enable effective gameplay in this server, divine consciousness has set an unalterable Physics Engine. This engine is defined by two core parameters:

1. Causal Delay (Speed of Light $c$):

   The reality server prohibits “teleportation” and “instant communication.”

   • Function: It creates sense of distance and sense of process. If I want to see you, I must pay the price of time. This “payment” endows encounters with value.

   • Limitation: It prevents narrative collapse from omniscience and omnipotence (see Volume V, Section 8.1).

2. Irreversibility (Second Law of Thermodynamics $dS\ge 0$):

   This is reality’s most cruel and most sacred feature. In dreams, a broken cup can be restored; in reality, broken is broken.

   • Function: It creates Consequence.

   • Weight: Because there is no save/load, every choice gains infinite ontological weight. If you kill someone, they are dead forever; if you love someone, that love is permanently recorded on the time axis.

Reality is God’s designed “Hardcore Mode.”

It is full of friction, resistance, and scarcity. But it is precisely these limitations that force our souls (knowledge graphs) to perform high-intensity computation and evolution. Without gravity, muscles atrophy; without reality’s harshness, souls degenerate into loose fantasies.

The Reality of Pain: The Server’s Feedback Mechanism

Why is reality clearer and more vivid than dreams?

Because reality provides High-Bandwidth Negative Feedback—namely, pain.

When you kick a stone, your toe hurts intensely. This is the server sending you a high-priority error report: “Illegal collision detected, physical boundaries cannot be violated.”

This pain is not just a neural signal; it is an Ontological Anchor.

• Dreams are ethereal: Because stones in dreams often don’t hurt when kicked, or the pain is vague.

• Reality is solid: Because pain is clear, sharp, and impossible to ignore.

Theorem 9.1.1 (Reality Index Theorem):

An experience’s “reality index” is proportional to the Non-negotiability it contains.

The more powerless you feel, the more you must obey the rules (such as birth, aging, sickness, death), the greater the physical information content, the more “real” it is.

Conclusion: The Sacred Playground

Therefore, we should not despise reality, viewing it as a prison confining the soul.

Reality is the ultimate testing ground that divine consciousness constructed with enormous computing power.

In this server, every particle is precisely tracked, every action has a reaction.

We actively log into this server, donning heavy physical avatars, not to suffer, but to verify our soul’s strength under these extremely strict constraints.

Only by learning to walk where we cannot fly is the meaning of walking established.

Only by learning to love where we will die is the eternity of love proven.

Reality is where we forge ethereal “intentions” into unbreakable “truth.”