Reviewed by Leonard Smuts for Readers’ Favorite
The Absence of Reality by E. Hughes is an exploration of our current reality, in which essential truths are obscured. Hughes points out that the first layer of reality is artificial and based on perception, but true reality lies beneath. We are left with what has become a simulation, which is not real and constitutes the absence of reality. By creating superficial objects and structures, humans have contributed to this by making changes that contradict nature. The author concludes that these are illusions and contrived constructs that bear no resemblance to objective reality, but have become the norm. Society itself has become a social fabrication shaped by humankind and open to manipulation, although most people remain unaware of this. The author asserts that human purpose and functions are to collect, process, and decode the universe. A new beginning will see objective physical reality replaced by a virtual environment in both the mental and digital spaces. Humanity has already begun to transition to this reality. This poses the question as to whether humans will become obsolete or may self-destruct.
The Absence of Reality examines our relationship with the universe and its vastness, as well as our ability to manifest consciousness. The author questions whether there is any foundation for existence without consciousness. She reflects that while AI has become more human, humans have become less human, and ponders whether consciousness is only biological or can extend to AI entities. We now have virtual reality and AI, plus a flood of social media information that is shaping society. This notion echoes emerging views suggesting that we are already living in a simulation, whereby our bodies are incarnated in the “real” world, while our minds are trapped in a simulated reality and remain unaware. E. Hughes is a metaphysician and prolific author. The writing style is concise and thought-provoking. This book contains profound philosophical and metaphysical concepts that are fundamental to our current and future existence, and is prophetic. Above all, this book reminds us to understand who we are and how we relate to the universe. In an artificial reality, only love is real, beyond illusion, and lives on. - ★★★★★
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Thought I would share a short video that I narrated about my new chapbook, The Absence of Reality. The book provides aphorisms and short observations about the nature of reality and perception. The quotes are sometimes long, sometimes as short as free verse poetry. The book provides commentary and criticisms about our increasingly digital world and the future of humanity. – E. Hughes
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Roy Scarbrough
Very interesting. Makes me think of Plato who insists that reality we see is but shadows of another. Plato envision a dual, or more, reality. The two he talked about are the "world of becoming" and the "World of Being."
His writings sparked the renaissance and the western humanist world view.
E. Writer Plato's Cave boils down to, "perception is reality." Sadly, we are living in an era where we cannot trust what we see, or worse, what we hear. One of the points I'm making is that we are no longer striving for reality, but striving for what is unreal. The more we advance technologically, the more artificial our reality becomes. The greatest threat we face, is the great replacement, of hunankind.
Roy Scarbrough
I think there are parallel universes with coinciding realities.
There are now observable phenomena in deep space that suggests this might be the case, As I posted elsewhere:
On May 21, 2019 a team of astrophysicists working at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory ([LIGO]) observed a very strange thing in a place and, far, far, away in deep space.
The LIGO is actually a facility operating in two parts, in tandem, thousands of miles apart. One in Hanford Washington, another in Livingstion Louisiana. It's purpose is to detect gravitational wave disturbances in the space-time continuum.
Since 2015 it has detected more than 90 such disturbances, but the one on May 2019 was so odd that the team cannot come up with a better explanation than to hypothesize that an artifact of a parallel universe was captured passing though a worm hole.
On that day the equipment was trained on a pair of binary black holes in the process of colliding, or rather "merging". The expected pattern of gravitational wave disturbances was a spin, owing to the massive forces swirling around in the neighborhood of two black holes merging, The swirling wave would signal an ascending tonal "chirp".
On May 19, 2019, something came through with no swirl, no ascending chirp, an inexplicable monotone meaning it traveled straight through the field undisturbed by the forces.
They say this is owing to the artifact traveling though a worm hole in the field from a parallel universe. Who knows, a universe co-exsting beside ours, or within ours, or around ours
E. Writer I heard about this. The accepted theory is that chirping sound is 2 black holes colliding. Scientists must choose the most probable explanation for this phenomenon and the prevailing assumption is that it's a collision. They've monitored gravitational waves as well, which are thought to be caused by such collisions. However, the answers for now are all hypothesis and speculatory science. I do believe there are other universes, but not parallel where everything is the same but opposite our universe. I believe there is a hierarchy of nested universes, each with their own physics and rules.
