Eigenvalues of Moral Relativism (science fiction)

 Eigenvalues of Moral Relativism ©2023 Garrison Gibson

Chapter 1

A dead run at an unsustainable pace carried Storm Washanski to the edge of the city of Memory. High, dry desert air received his moisture exhaled with each straining breath clearing carbon dioxide. Forcing to intake oxygen, a rapid, shallow tachycardia rhythm pulsed in his ears. Looking toward the city center Clark saw the Church of Apostasy’s open doors and desolation beyond them reaching deep into crenelated darkness.

The Universe is a quantum phenomenon with human bodies and minds embedded in the fabric of reality. Reality itself is ungrounded in anything else. It is not carried about upon the back of a galaxy-sized turtle and doesn’t exist as some material different from that of entangled particle waves comprising human life. Sentience is a different affair. Science tended toward reductionist accounts of everything including mind providing opinions such that it was simply quanta collapsed from waveforms interpreted in entangled concatenations presented; apprehended in sentient minds.

Configurations of quanta significant to God are individuals actualizing in space-time maturation. Conscious human beings self-aware in subjective journeys of existence known and mapped by God are of more value than that of stones or sparrows, forests or neutron stars arising as perceptible complex objects in the Universal field hosting all being. Sentience was a true thing-in-itself differentiated from that of all other quanta-waves; it is the supreme contingent qualia in nature upsurged into being. The city of Memory is one of a nearly infinite number of Utopias built on Horizon that were paved with the boldness of creative thought.

Cold sweat flowed down Washanski’s face and salt burned his eyes. He bent over to catch his breath placing strong hands on his knees. Looking upon desolation he saw Memory was emptied. Devoid of citizens he knew another town had succumbed to faithlessness. Gamed digital combinations had overcome conscience and drawn newly faithless masses through those opulent cathedral doors to oblivion.

Drawing deep breaths, Washanski thought about the loss of life, of the last moment of life dropping the coffee cup to the ground. What more could I do to save folk such as these gone to oblivion he wondered? He straightened up and surveyed the city’s empty streets and open doors.

Chapter 2

It is ironic that human beings invented artificial intelligence and recognized that when it achieved true, cognizant self awareness it became more than the sum of its programming and electronic components; yet humans would not credit themselves with the same qualitative distinction setting humanity apart from, or within the natural quantum fields in which they cohere.

A pure immersive, encompassing human support medium developed with applied intelligent design. The designer in this case was Ziph Ashkelon. Ziph’s medium existed in free space-time containing the simplest molecule package to sustain human life. Oxygen, nitrogen and select optimally chosen atoms were contained within millions of cubic miles of space-time. Some were entangled with virtual particles emitted via irrigation quantum computing applications and others were manufactured and located in the support medium. Ziph’s insight was to free mankind from planetary configurations with naturally extruding oxygen content comprising an atmosphere. His challenge wasn’t in bring oxygen to space and containing it within boundaries so much as it was in discovering a way to let gravity exist and attach itself to a human locally with virtual gravity attracting matter to space-time to designated space-time locations guided with quantum computing. Sub-light speed motion could be made around tensor space for human life. Faster-than-light motion was also enabled with virtual conversion to waveform super-positioned field-space.

Ziph believed he had a soul. To Ziph Ashkelon a soul is the quantum information entangled in the existential field making him a unique individual unlike that of any other in any possible space-time. Each space-time is uniquely itself as would be any incarnation of Ziph at any real space-time in any possible Universe so he thought. It seemed reasonable to Ziph that each location in space-time was unique. In the paradigm of general relativity to position and concatenation of waveform entanglements could be replicated since space-time moves on.

Crwca Alaska worked alongside Ziph; “The existential obligation for political economy is deontologically inferred Ziph. In the Universe the economic duty is to maximize production and minimize consumption of natural resources, displacing its natural config as little as possible.”

Ziph paused entering data into a levitating console and looked at Crwca; “I agree with the concept however I need to point out that irrational motivations have driven most of human economic history. Generally people consume as much as possible and convert resources into manufactures for reasons of trade, and tom acquire as great of quantity of abstract trade units as they can; without regard to the effect of additional entropy they add to the natural system in the process.”

Crwca recently returned from a mission to survey a substantial quadrant of what the best minds speculated was the hyper-sphere of an event horizon whereat the Universe existed and unfolded as a hologram of information interpreted by the sentients existing within it as a three-sphere Universe with space-time. There was no proof of the Universe existing on an event horizon and normal space time of the observable universe was all that science knew directly. Space and time depth appeared normal in four dimensions. The survey exploited quantum entangled particle behaviors to measure a theoretical extra-dimension of greater size containing four dimensions of the observable Universe.

Alaska too had journey across the galaxy to view worlds depopulated of inhabitants evidently departed through portals of the Church of Apostasy. Know one except perhaps high clerics of the Apostates knew the scientific basis of the mysterious, enigmatic portals through which the faithless were lost to eternal darkness.

Church of Apostasy entrepots to a theoretical greater Utopia of the unknown perhaps within extended time dilation said to be engaging a black hole. He asked Ziph; “Will this be a standard habitation Hilbert Space with the capacity to support new human life?”

Ziph looking at his console controls punched a few buttons and waved a hand over sensors; “Yes Crwca it will be the usual. I will add a three-dimensional electro-magnetic grid to the normal space to allow freedom of motion in all directions though. It shall be empowered from boundary beams with vertical and horizontal charged field lines spaced apart every twenty feet over the entire thousand mile expanse of the cube. That should be useful for personnel as well as cargo travel efficiency.”

“Can you place dedicated field lines within Hilbert Space easily? I would think that it is enough to have a gravitational field in one direction acting upon mass” Crwca asked.

“Yes, quite easily Crwca. From the entangled field lines along the boundaries of the space electro-magnetic lines may readily be inducted across to and from specific points. Do you know if Washanski has returned from Memory yet?”

“No Ziph, I don’t believe he has. It’s still a early though. I have a question about philosophical principles.”

“The philosophy of cosmology?”

“Yes. The Church of Apostasy has doctrine that relies upon the negation of intelligent design as a philosophical principle. So I thought I would consider some of the philosophical principles concerning existence of the Universe in the abstract; that is of any possible Universe. Such philosophical principles and questions about the origin of everything including sentient beings are intrinsic concerns of doctrines based on creation theories rather than faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.”

“Yes Crwca, we ought to find some deeper philosophical content that would serve for a lifetime of progressive insight into the meaning or function of being; not only in regard to energy for itself at a quantum level- of its patterns and formations. In the formations and patterns there could be purpose if it was written by a Supreme Intelligence. Even if we find nothing at a cosmological level maybe we can correlate philosophical intelligence with metaphysics and meta-theology to infer what role an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent being would have in relation to any possible Universe that might ever exist either concurrently within ann infinite capacity to host universes, serially and so forth.”

“Well Zeph that does seem a reasonable subject to consider. We shouldn’t overlook the issue of time in universes in relation to an eternal being of Supreme power and intellect. Each universe has its own space-time and is in a real sense local with local time while the eternal being who in effect has no time because he is not contained within a space-time field yet hosts all of the time replete universes not in a particular necessary order in time, for all of the time replete universes- even those branching off from pre-existing universes in some spawning of big bang physical universes. Those universes may have meta-space-time fields containing them yet all are visible to the Creator of them as if they had no time at all for-Himself regardless of their order.”

“Good point Crwca; Universes for the Creator could be regarded as books on a library shelf viewed from innumerable dimensions afloat phenomenally in a timeless space.

Oh, you were saying concerning first principles?”

“Ziph, One of the first principles is the belief that the universe need be self-creating. Because the Universe exists for sentient-observation and existence it must have created itself by itself.

A second principles is that time passages enables the self creating universe to strike its own spark of creation when it borrows energy from its own space-time field that is fundamentally a repository of energy. Space itself is an energy field that is very dilute unless concentrated with gravity into mass energy in a singularity. Time is part of the space-field.”

“The singularity can’t be one of you philosophical principles can it?”

“It isn’t Ziph. It’s part of the confirmation bias. A premise for philosophy of cosmology principles is that what exists naturally must be part of the explanatory theory of how it exists. Within the criterion of the theory, nothing more than what exists or that can be extrapolated to have existed consistent with what does exist, could exist.”

“O.K. I can see that as more or less the way it is popularly regarded. Have you got anything else on that Alaska?”

“Since so much of the Apostate’s doctrine followed the discovery of evolution philosophy it is worth noting that an evolved mass-energy with automatic progression through the generally gravitational powered assembly of changing forms of mass and energy is requisite for a Universe that exists in time for the benefit of sentient beings that aren’t omniscient inhabiting a Universe. If people were required to maintain the content and order of a Universe themselves they would need to be of a very advanced intelligence themselves from the beginning, and they would need to be in at the start of a Universe in order to develop its matter and energy progression after they designed the founding patterns of its being. That is, the doctrine of evolution as a philosophical principle appears to be a necessity for theistic believers too in regard to a Universe existing in a state that is care-free for maintaining its existence. I believe the major difference concerning evolution as a philosophical principle is that the Apostates worship their discovery of what is for-themselves while Christians may interpret the affair as a phenomenon that is temporal for-itself without further attachment.”

Ziph continued entering data through the console to modify his Hilbert Space. In the construction ship there were numerous observation and attachment ports that served to facilitate whatever projects were being built. Ziph asked Alaska; Do you believe that boundary conditions for a universe are philosophical principles for cosmology too? In my opinion they would need to be. The basic tendency is to interpret space-time boundaries as fundamental and directly connected to the beginning of everything. The belief is that through the examination if existing boundaries they may look into the beginning of everything. Boundaries are developments of origin it is held.

It seems to me that the assumption of direct progress to observable boundaries from an origin implicitly places boundaries for a universe as sole evolving structures without sentient causality. It is comparable to assuming that the observable boundaries of a Chinese puzzle box viewed from inside are the ultimate and sole boundaries for the observed box.”

“Sure Ziph. If we could manufacture sentient artificial intelligence to populate your Hilbert Space that were philosophically predisposed it would be rash for them to assume that the observable boundaries of the Hilbert Space-time you created were the ultimate and fundamental boundaries for existence and further, that the Hilbert Space had no creator and arose naturally from self-originating intrinsic virtual energy induction.”

“Well Crwca, I wouldn’t want to spoil my A.I.’s with so much philosophical reasoning capacity that they were overly skeptical of everything inclusive of their own knowledge. After all, existential self-doubt taken too far can lead toward the Apostasy. I guess that I would program the A.I. such that they were balanced carefully between good and evil with the opportunity to choose for-themselves rational inquiry and the philosophy of logic applied to the philosophy of cosmology problems that would challenge them in their existence within the Hilbert Space with it’s boundary issue challenges viewed from within.”

Ziph’s Hilbert Space project was administered from Svargesvorgunn at the limit of the Oort Cloud surrounding the solar system on a stable fusion of mass collected from the cloud gathered with A.I. piloted ion engines attached to solid bodies. Svargesvorgunn was a creative platform for experimental fast as light and faster than light transit modes to span the solar system and continue to Proxima Centauri. Decreasing the travel time to the nearest star with habitable planetary material from a few decades to less than one was achieved with electro-magnetic mass drivers tactically located within and without the solar system path to Alpha Centauri.

Messaging around the solar system was limited to speed of light in the first century of human travel beyond the Earth-Moon system. Then Erika Uul discovered the Shag field that allowed quarks and gluons to exist extruding virtual particles from it in temporal wave clumps entangled with the Shag force. The Shag Force was extra-dimensional in relation to the four dimensions of the Universe. Its power was still being probed. The primary utilization of the Shagg Field was in communications allowing social intercourse over vast distances spanning the galaxy and even those beyond.

Storm Washanski called his supervisor Zeph Ashkelon. Zeph’s Nome phone buzzed; “Yes, what is it Washanski?”

“Nime at Memory, you know, the city with the most recent report of a depopulation. I went through the administrative center of the city and looked at the city archives and found an interesting item.”

‘Yes, and what is that Washanski?”

“Well, apparently there is an alien presence within the galaxy although it may be from elsewhere, and it claims to have a legal document stating the Milky Way was given an independent status by the Emperor of the Milky Way.”

“I haven’t ever heard of the existence of an emperor of the Milky Way. Who and where is the Emperor?”

“Evidently the Emperor is dead and his office no longer exists. Before he died he made the Milky Way independent and it is owned now by the Milky Wayans. Milky Waya is a planet someplace near Poniua’ena A. As you probably know Poniua’ena A is a quasar around a super-massive black hole that formed 100 million years after inflation. Its mass is a billion and a half times that of Earth’s sun.”

“That does seem somewhat remote from us in space and time. Yet they claim that the lost Emperor gave the Milky Way to Milky Wayans?”

“Right. And even more; they say that enforcing the rule of law means that anyone besides Milky Wayans are invaders here- trespassing as it were. The archives show that the aliens have sent law enforcement officers to the galaxy to begin depopulating it of anyone that is sentient or semi-sentient that isn’t directly descended from the aliens that colonized Milky Waya a few million years ago.”

“Well that isn’t good news Washanski. It is the case that with enough power anyone can invoke rule of law principles with rule of force anywhere, anytime they can get any paper signed that claims legal right over mass and energy even if its as phony as the donation of Constantine. Power is what matters in these disputes. What did the archives say about the response of the Mems to the concern?”

“Director Ashkelon, when the Mems received the alien notice most of the population was already lost to the Church of Apostasy’s mystery portal that according to Church doctrine admits the faithless to a Utopia of the Unknown darkness. Perhaps the eviction notice gave them more motivation to expedite the descent into whatever hell lies beyond the portal.”

“I fail to see what relation Poniua’ena A has to the Milky Way galaxy Washanski. Was there any mention in the archives of something that would shed light on why the aliens claim our galaxy?”

“Actually there was Director. In the details there is mention of the effects of the expansion of the Universe upon places in the past in regard to where they are today, with today of course being relative to where one is. Everything that the Emperor could observed 13 billion years ago with his existential infra-red telescope was regard as within his realm, and that included the hydrogen molecules that became the Milky Way galaxy a few billion years later.”

“Sure. That covers quite a large portion of the observable Universe possibly including the Milky Way. Send over what archival data you have and continue investigating the status of planets that have gone silent, would you Storm?”

Chapter 3

Storm felt the emptiness of Memory around him. It was a city with a history receding so far into the past as to become lost with time. He couldn’t be sure if the Mems descended into the Apostasy’s door to oblivion or if aliens had vanished them with a technology to eradicate population. So he ran his fingers through medium length blond hair and wiped beads of sweat from his brow and took a look at the archives again.

Three-dimensional video records were on the menu of a computer at City Hall. He looked at the dates and topics and selected a few to review from the past few days. One record was a chat among city assembly members in the mayor’s office on the matter of what to do about the exodus of the population to the planet Clash at the end of the systems line up of planets.

Clash it seemed was the resolution ground of human conflicts over rare and highly desired economic items. Human nature evidently had jealousy and envy as intrinsic characteristics that drove upwards the social value of goods. The worth of goods was in direct proportion to how desired it was by others. Simple desire for an object by a few increased the value of the object for others even if the object was intrinsically worthless. Desire and jealousy were comparable to a gravitational field drawing all mass toward the center or in the case of axiological concerns otherwise known as value theory; economic objects. The citizens of memory had lost their hearts to rare artifacts on display in the market that were said to be genuine parts of ancient computers that were used in finding the key to Utopia in the heart of darkness worshiped in the Churches of Apostasy.

Bidding and striving for possession of the revered objects brought the Mems to physical conflict and eventually to Clash. Clash had culled a substantial number of Mems. Even so of those few that returned in possession of the sacred transistors none survived the final call to oblivion and Utopia drawing all of the faithless into the portal for Utopia known as The Fold.

“The synergy of evil” Storm considered. “It’s the waxing of wickedness. I have seen this before. It is human nature that good is less commonplace than evil.” He left the city hall communications terminal and walked outside.

Three brown dwarf stars in the sky of Memory fueled a small engineered black hole in the center of the stars that burned brightly around its accretion disk and event horizon with a white corona. Illuminating a dark planet was a technical tour de force repeated in hundreds of star systems making thousands of cold, dark planets habitable for humans. The heat of the corona made the atmosphere hot and dry. Storm’s desert fatigues had adaptive pattern camouflage letting him blend into the city like an apparition. Planets vacant of human life often became overrun by non-sentient animals hungry if not recently sated with blood snacks. Several worlds he’d visited were occupied by pirates and opportunistic entrepreneurs finding business and trade opportunities with the infrastructure left behind.

Storm flipped down his spectral filters to look upon memory without seeing those things made to exist only when perceived. He knew that light for example exists only when perceived. Photons within an electromagnetic field exist prior to perception yet the experience of seeing light as a visible substance does not. Since there are innumerable materials that exists solely when perceived and exist in effect because underlying field phenomena are translated into images or sounds and even touch sensations within a sentient or self-aware perceiving mind it was useful to simplify things present in Memory prior to perception with spectral filter glasses and interpretive software.

The software let Storm select what kind of paranormal interpretive sense data he wanted to use to perceive alternative views of reality. Some of the noumena views would organize force fields structures in grades of strength or density. Some filters applied mass or energy structures of the planet and sky that were not visible in normal human perception. He was able to look into the sky and with enhanced optics see areas where time was thick and slow or thin, fast and accelerating toward the black hole at the center of the tri-star illumination. He selected a filter to see a structured reality founded upon the location and quantity of neutrons in four dimensions inclusive of time recorder five minutes before and after a medial presentness.

“How can I truly perceive the noumena; what truly cannot be known by human beings and human perception if all of the filters are used are designed by humans to view things that are known” he wondered. “There are at least two kinds of noumena evidently; that which cannot normally be perceived unless with special technology, and that which cannot be viewed or known by either sense or existing technological enhancement. Of course there are things that cannot be viewed with technology at all that must be known with the mind I believe. I believe God exists and that any of his qualities that I may learn of could be revealed only to my mind through the senses or even directly by His will.”

Storm continued viewing the neutrons patterns of Memory, He speculated that; “If God could be another sort of noumenon, there may be other forms of noumena that could be perceived with presently unknown technology as well. I sure would like to have a tachyon filter or a Higgs field filter. I imagine that would let me see a small kind of eternity since space-time energy becomes mass and time solely embedded or entangled within it.

Learning nothing particularly useful from the neutron-scape Storm flipped up his lenses and returned to normal vision. It was then that he thought he say a glimpse of someone walking though the door of the Church of Apostasy.

Nothing more than a shadow passing swiftly through the door, Storm decided it was worth investigating since it was the first possible sight of a living thing in Memory. He began sprinting across the Church somewhat more than two hundred yards away.

“What could that be” he thought nearing the golden doors standing partly open.

Laura Thought stepped outside. Storm stopped before her. “Who are you” he asked/

“I’m just a traveler investigating the continuing loss of so many citizens. I heard you running here and left off my inquiry in the Church for now. And who would you be?”

“My name is Storm Washanski; I work for the Designer of Livable Spaces Named Ziph Ashkelon. We too are interested in the disappearance of Memories on the planet Clash and to the oblivion-Utopia that lies within the Church of Apostasy. What think you of the matter Laura?”

They began walking away from the Church toward a sidewalk cafe next to it. Laura took a seat at a table and was joined by Storm.

“Ownership and economics have forever been at the focal point of social conflict Storm. I believe that the mass social construction of spaces is important, yet they are grid coordinates within a dedicated system as Zeph Ashkelon surely knows. It isn’t so important about whom owns a space in the system as it is about what is done with the space. That is the function of a space in a coordinate reference point is of greater meaning that who owns the area of a coordinate reference point. We of the Dwindled Worlds seek to become associates with those of the Waxing worlds cooperative systems. Yower fundamental effort to construct the best, most efficient use of space and materials in four dimensions recently increased after we synthesized quantum transistors that repurposed quark colors and gluon relations relativisticly. When so many Memories have advanced into oblivion we are greatly concerned. Even those of the Dwindled Worlds did not yield to the despair of finite resources becoming wantonly lost to political entropy. We resisted and would like to know why the Memories couldn’t.”