Picture a gigantic box of LEGOs.
At the very base level, you could break everything down into simple 1x1 pieces, washed out without any contrast in color. Maybe they’re all grey or something. Basically, there’s an infinite count of tiny identical dots, all separate and without obedience to any form. They stay in their box as such, serving no purpose, collecting dust for eternity if left alone.
That is, until some outside force begins willing them otherwise or some inside programming drives them towards some kind of collective potential. What’s needed then is a creative spark, whether it’s a small idea, grand vision, or at least a small curiosity to experiment, in order to create something out of this big box of bits that currently amount to nothing. Without one, the LEGOs are doomed to remain chaotically scattered, and progress would remain impossible.
The Creative Process
Let’s say you’re given all these LEGOs without set instructions. You’d start small, combining the 1x1s to create some basic shapes. Maybe a circle here, maybe a square there, maybe even a sphere or a cube if you expanded a little more.
After creating a good amount of those, the monotone pieces would start to feel limiting. So, you might carve and mold them together to have distinguishing features and functionality, fashioning useful components like gears, shafts, connectors, and cables. You might even paint them in various colors to add detail. Correctly merge those together and you could generate mechanisms and systems, stuff slightly more intricate.
As you explore more possibilities, you’d make note of certain things that work better for you than the rest and prefer developing those. You know, the more mobile ones, the sturdier ones, and the prettier ones. You’d tear down the failed concepts and repurpose their pieces to help strengthen or create more of the sound ideas.
Soon, you’ll have blueprints to create complex structures, far advanced from the 1x1s you originally started with. You’d have a whole catalog of them, and you’d constantly be adding more to your repertoire.
Once you reach a place of satisfaction, you could take a step back to view the finished product, and with enough attempts, it’d look pretty amazing.
Your life’s work.
“Artificial” Intelligence
However, this masterpiece lies in front of you inanimate, and that appears kind of boring and stale after a while.
You could give it animation to make it a little more interesting,
Random variance to keep you guessing,
Sentience to carve its own path so that you could be pleasantly surprised by its choices,
Ability and imagination to continue your work: repurposing, creating, and ever evolving on its own, so that you could marvel at how closely it emulates what you’ve done or would’ve done.
In other words, if you could program the very mind, yours, that facilitated the creation of what’s in front you, directly into what’s in front of you itself, wouldn’t that reignite the curiosity that made the whole thing fun and gave it wonder in the first place?
Because then, you’d have the privilege to sit back and witness how everything unfolds with or without you. You’d get to see miniature essences of yourself try to embody your ingenuity, alongside you or against you.
But where in this entirety do you even insert this new attribute? You have layers upon layers of parts to choose from, from the complex structures all the way back down to the basic 1x1 LEGOs.
Do you prioritize certain creations?
Or, do you gift it to every layer?
A Life Time
If so, how would each one be differentiated? What would their lived experiences be? Conversely, would it just be the same throughout?
If the same, would consciousness be perceived through the lens of what’s considered the ideal existence, no matter which layer it happens to be in? For example, each one could be equivalent to living as a human on earth, despite actually being a smaller part or a bigger whole. They’re all being fed the same simulation, sentience as it is.
If different, perhaps it’s distinguished by observable dimensions, activated senses, and constraints of time. However these various combinations appear, they’re planted in all things to provide them their own thought to navigate the intended function of their lifetime. Maybe there are glimpses to these alternate realities through dreams, substances, and mental disorders, any break from normal programming.
After living out one’s role, the body dies, but what about the mind? Where does it go? If it doesn’t disappear, would it just be in an endless cycle, an eternity of sampling and perceiving the numerous layers?
The consciousness could descend, breaking apart and losing the ability to commandeer its current assortment of parts, now redistributed to others more worthy. Despite experiencing the privilege of the what’s above, it’s now stuck below serving the needs what it used to be.
It could stagnate, continuing to exist in the current but still having to understand how to advance beyond. It is constantly learning new lessons and releasing limitations until it is ready.
It could ascend, evolving and coalescing to pilot a bigger whole. It will be able to experience a new potential that was out of reach in their previous life which they have now outgrown.
If beings of a higher layer could travel below, imagine what they could do with such knowledge. Perhaps they could control and manipulate matter there in what appears to others as miracles or sorcery. They’d be treated like supernatural as they bend the concepts of a lower reality for their own intentions.
Maybe there would be those who strive to guide others to rise and join them in the next level, so that they may work together to manage and behold something greater.
The opposite would desire to keep others down and attached to a single layer, so that they may forever utilize them to exert power and satisfy greed.
Our Creator(s)
You are a human:
Made up of organs, made up of tissues, made up of cells, made up of molecules, made up of atoms, made up of particles.
Part of an ecosystem, part of a planet, part of a solar system, part of a galaxy, part of a supercluster, part of a universe.
You’re made up of all these bits, and you’re a bit in something bigger.
Life on one layer works together to sustain those above and requires the same from those below.
This hierarchy stretches infinitely. Conceptually, it could be a loop, for zooming out far enough makes planets and stars look like particles and atoms, solar systems look like molecules, galaxies look like cells and tissues. We’re simply observing a fraction through our limited senses and technology.
Given the creative spark, every layer is part creator. You yourself are powerful enough to give life to new cells every day.
If you could interact with them, what would you do? Would you be hands-off and let them live life freely? Maybe you’d set some rules of play and have them figure out how to act in relation. You could be more direct in your involvement, influencing their outcomes as you utilize them as tools for your goals.
In relation to what created you, do you choose to silo yourself and dedicate your attention to this life and its offerings only? Do you choose to serve the greater good of whatever you belong in, whatever created you and needed you to function, so that it survives and develops? Maybe it’s an illusion of rationalizing why you do the things you do, when all of that ultimately is dictated by your creator’s will, which is dictated by their own creator’s will, and on and on.
Purpose
I suppose God then is just someone, either highly creative, ever curious, or bored out of their mind, trying to bring imagination into reality, with a gigantic box of LEGOs.
He gave those LEGOs the capability to experience this creative process in endless, unique snippets alone, with each other, and in imagination of their own.
Without God, then it’s just LEGOs already implanted with a hive mind for creation.
Either way, when it comes to our relative lives, perhaps there is an internal knowing within every being, every layer, and every bit of what’s necessary as a collective to move forward.
I just don’t know for sure if the end goal is to see us advance together or destroy one another. I don’t know if we purely exist to see what happens.
I just know for myself there’s a need to express, share, and nurture said creative spark in myself and others.