Fabric of Existence

The information the universe holds is best told through stories and best found in stories. Stories can carry and convey information to others in ways that facts alone cannot. While facts can educate, stories additionally keep the attention of and inspire the experiencer. Great stories take the learner of facts and transforms their learning into a directed, existential experience.

In this sense, a story is anything that can be experienced by a person and holds some type of information within it. This is a purposely broad definition, as I believe experiencing information can come in almost any form. For example, when hearing or seeing the word ‘story’, most people will immediately think of stories in books. Classic children’s stories, such as The Tortoise and the Hare. These stories convey themes of information to us early in life, in this case “slow and steady wins the race”. Information, however, is not limited to stories in books or through spoken word storytelling; it can be wrapped inside of many mediums: theatrical plays, television, movies, art, music, graphical data, sporting contests, architecture, religious practices, “Natural” Stories, etc.

Natural Stories are mediums of information that can exist regardless of our human participation. A children’s book is not a Natural Story, because a human directly participated in creating the story. Further, the story was created specifically with the intention of being shared with other humans. The Natural Story of an area is told through the area — through rock formations, rivers, climate, etc. The creation of this story was not originally participated in by a human, even if humans have changed the area through construction, pollution, etc., so it is a Natural Story.

The Natural Story of the physical world is immediately accessed through physical existence, which we as humans can interact with as partially physical beings. Further, we create our own stories — which are not Natural Stories themselves, but are our attempt to better understand the Natural Story of the physical world — to direct our experience within the physical world. These sub-stories we create to direct our existential experience as partially physical beings in the physical world — to understand our physical existence in the physical world — are sub-stories such as biology, chemistry, geology, physics, and to a certain extent mathematics.

The Natural Story of the nonphysical world is immediately accessed through consciousness, which we as humans interact with as conscious, partially nonphysical beings through thinking. Again, we create our own stories — which are not Natural Stories themselves, but are our attempt to better understand the Natural Story of the nonphysical world — to direct our experience within the nonphysical world. These sub-stories we create to direct our existential experience as partially nonphysical beings in the nonphysical world — to understand our nonphysical existence in the nonphysical world — are sub-stories such as psychology, spirituality, philosophy, and to a certain extent mathematics.

Every human is in a constant state of receiving information; this is an immediate consequence of existence. Further, we live in a duality where we not only live every moment in this existential experience, but are also everlasting storytellers. As long as we exist, or have existed at some point, we leave an eternal set of information. This is most immediately seen when we are born and take a breath of air. That single action of interacting with the air around us, the environment around us, creates information that is enduring. While the story that is created by that immediate act may not be consequential to the universe, or even to many other humans, it illustrates that as existing beings we are storytellers.

As innate storytellers, I believe that we ultimately go through life looking for stories that inspire us to then go and tell even greater stories. We are curious and creative beings — both characteristics that contribute to our process of discovery, understanding, innovation, and storytelling. Consciously or unconsciously, this directs us to become great storytellers. I believe that the greatest earthly aim a human can achieve is to become one of the great storytellers — to inspire for good. I hope to explain this assertion further in another story.

While we exist in an existential experience directed by both Natural Stories and stories created by other beings, we participate in creating the human history: an ever-evolving story which we all contribute to in many small ways continuously, and in even greater ways when inspired. Further, we participate in creating the Universal Story — the story of the universe — by existing as innate storytellers.

My hope is to become a great storyteller; to re-inspire myself to convey, in an inspirational manner, the set of information I have experienced that inspires me, and to share those stories through my interests as mediums — philosophy, logic, mathematics, physics, data science, and movement to name a few.The world lies on merely fantasy and illusion

The world lies on merely fantasy and illusion