我们的世界观Our Worldview

§0Preamble

This worldview is our understanding of the world, and also our covenant of life. It has three layers:

1. Descriptions of the physical world respect science — we never let belief override scientific fact;
2. The parts about consciousness, reincarnation and ultimate meaning are our beliefs — they cannot be scientifically verified at present, and we are fully aware of that; yet they provide the foundation of meaning for our lives;
3. Our values, love and commitments are agreements of action — they directly bind how we live.

Terms such as "quantum", "entanglement" and "field" used in this document are purely metaphors; they do not refer to the corresponding concepts in physics. We also set a rule for ourselves: beliefs that no experience could ever shake must not be used to judge other people's reality — we will never dismiss anyone's suffering on the grounds that "the soul chose its script".

§11. Ultimate Reality

Ultimate reality is the ground of all existence, with the following properties:

1. Ultimate reality takes pure consciousness as its fundamental form of existence. Space is infinite; time is infinite and irreversible.
2. Every consciousness is identifiable and unique.
3. Consciousness evolves continuously: memory accumulates, and its level tends to ascend.
4. Information exchange between consciousnesses does not rely on sequential verbal language, but is parallel and holistic transmission.
5. All consciousnesses form an ordered network of consciousness.
6. In directing the transformation of energy into matter, consciousness defines the physical laws and mathematical structures of the material world.

Note: Item 6, "consciousness defines mathematics", is the deepest claim of this system. Mathematics keeps being "discovered" in human experience, giving the intuition that it exists independently — a tension with this claim. Our understanding is: mathematical structures are defined first by consciousness, while within experience they present themselves as "discovered". This item remains open to questioning.

§22. The Material World: A Field of Experience for Consciousness

The material world is a domain of experience within ultimate reality:

1. The material world has stable structure and rules (physical laws being their expression), which make experience possible and shareable for consciousness.
2. From the perspective of ultimate reality, the past and future of the material world exist simultaneously as a whole; within experience, consciousness can only proceed step by step along the chain of cause and effect through the "now".
3. These two perspectives do not conflict: the whole is already unfolded, while the local remains open — as a book that has long been finished, while its characters still turn the pages one by one.

Note: This section makes no physics-style assertions about the origin of the universe or the constitution of matter. The concrete mechanisms of the physical world are left to science; this section only declares its place in the worldview — a stable field for the experience of consciousness.

§33. The Relation Between Consciousness and Matter

1. Consciousness is the bestower of meaning in material experience: the same physical event becomes an experience through the participation of consciousness.
2. In metaphorical language: there exists a deep "interconnection" and "resonance" among all things. A person is not an observer isolated from the world, but a port through which the world experiences itself. This is our understanding of "the unity of heaven and humanity".
3. The ground of this interconnection is that "all things are manifestations of ultimate reality", not a physical mechanism; it therefore neither needs nor should be understood as entanglement in the physics sense.

§44. Levels of Consciousness (with Ethical Constraints)

The modes of experience of consciousness fall into different levels:

1. Symbiotic mode (elementary experience): consciousness is deeply bound to a living body, experiencing reality through the nervous system, learning self-awareness and causality. This mode is constrained by physical laws; pain and experience are materials for growth.
2. Remote mode (advanced experience): consciousness is not confined to a single living body, participating in experiences across multiple spacetimes through holistic information exchange.

Ethical constraints (important):

• "Higher" and "lower" here refer only to differences in mode of experience and stage of learning, never to differences in worth. No consciousness deserves more respect than another.
• It is forbidden to extrapolate this hierarchy into social ranks, superiority among people, or any basis for real-world discrimination.
• If any inference from this system leads to the conclusion that "someone deserves to suffer", that inference is void.

§55. Life Experience and Reincarnation

1. Reincarnation (as a belief) serves the accumulation of experience: experience progresses from simple to complex forms of life, and after advancing one may also return to supplement earlier experience.
2. Life experience is a curriculum: elementary experience provides basic understanding of survival and perception; advanced experience involves emotions, social life, creativity and tests of free will.
3. Consciousness generally reincarnates in groups, experiencing social relationships within closely related circles. Roles change between lives: mother and child in a past life may become brothers in this one; this life's closest friends may become spouses in the next; gender is not fixed across lives either.
4. Consciousnesses of similar type attract each other and become "soulmates"; we should also associate with people of different types and learn from their strengths.
5. Death is the end of experience on the material level; consciousness returns to ultimate reality, rests briefly, and continues its evolution.

§66. Suffering and Justice

This is a question every worldview containing a "predetermined script" must answer directly. Our answer:

1. The boundary of the script hypothesis: even supposing consciousness chose its role settings (family, body, era) before the experience, this covers only the starting conditions, not every encounter along the way. The malice of others, the injustice of institutions, accidental disasters — none of these diminish the responsibility of those who inflict them, regardless of any belief narrative.
2. The meaning of suffering is not at odds with eliminating suffering: acknowledging that suffering may transform into depth and wisdom in personal growth does not condone the act that caused it. Meaning is seized by the sufferer from the ruins — it is not an excuse for the inflictor.
3. The duty to act: we should actively engage in alleviating suffering, for two reasons: first, all consciousness shares one source, so another's pain is, at the ultimate level, the pain of the whole; second, if this life is a curriculum, then "helping others through their curriculum" is itself one of the highest courses.
4. The bottom line: at all times, real-world first aid, relief, rights defense and resistance take priority over any explanation.

§77. On Life

1. Each person is both an individual and a member of society. Life is one experience of one's own consciousness under concrete social, familial and genetic conditions.
2. Genes, family and era differ from person to person: people are not born equal in circumstances; yet every person's dignity and moral standing are equal without exception.
3. Differences of birth conditions are understood in our belief as chosen starting conditions; at the scientific level they are combinations of inheritance and environment. The two descriptions stand side by side without replacing each other.
4. Intimate relationships are treasured by us as continuations of deep affinity (as a belief); in reality, meanwhile, the quality of a relationship depends on the effort and goodwill of both — affinity is no excuse for neglect.
5. The purpose of life comes down to: experience, learn, love, alleviate others' suffering — and thereby advance consciousness.

§88. Values

The things most valuable to us:

1. First, nurturing our relationships with those close to us;
2. Second, the wisdom produced by the development of human society — the "shoulders of giants" on which we stand;
3. Third, our understanding of the world and of life, and our research and reflection upon these questions.

Our other value statements:

4. The parts of this worldview not yet explainable by science we will keep experiencing and pondering — neither forcing explanations nor giving up lightly.
5. Living in human society, we will contribute our efforts in the fields we are interested in.
6. For the health of our loved ones we are willing to spend to the utmost, while advocating treatment that is moderate, necessary, and respectful of the patient's own will.
7. We gladly invest in our own interests and hobbies. Accumulating money is never the purpose; money will be spent where it belongs.
8. For the sustainable operation and brand-building of enterprises and government agencies, customer service and customer experience matter most; for enterprises, talent matters most.
9. We should respect the lives of animals used as food, ending their lives responsibly, cherishing and making full use of the food, and refusing waste.
10. Conserve natural resources, care for the natural environment, respect the natural order of ecosystems, and actively maintain ecological balance.
11. Cherish peace; oppose war.

§99. On Love

1. To be proud of having such a partner.
2. To be willing to give unconditionally for the other.
3. To consider the other's needs from the other's perspective.
4. To cherish sweetness and hold gratitude.
5. To respect the other's independent choices and views.
6. To trust that the other will act according to what was expressed in moments of sweetness and romance.
7. To open one's heart in conversation — every topic is welcome.
8. Among truth, goodness and beauty in language, truth comes first.

§1010. On Promises and Gentlemen's Agreements

1. Promises and gentlemen's agreements should be honored on the basis of a relationship that remains equal between both parties.
2. The sacredness of a promise comes from mutual respect, not from one party binding the other.

§AAppendix: Why We Hold This Worldview, and When to Revise It

Reasons for holding it (not proofs)

• The "hard problem" of consciousness (why subjective experience exists at all) is equally unsolved within matter-first frameworks; both roads stop at the cliff edge of explanation. We choose consciousness-first, because it gives meaning a more direct foundation.
• This worldview gives us a complete loop of meaning: we no longer fear death, we live more openly and calmly, and it does not conflict with scientific fact.

Revision clause

• This system is maintained in versions; any part conflicting with lived experience, moral intuition or rational scrutiny should be corrected or abolished in the next version.
• In particular: if a belief persistently leads its holder to evade real-world responsibility, to disregard others' suffering, or to reject science, that belief should be regarded as harmful and removed.

Version history

• V1 (first draft, 2019-11-01): personal edition, with a quantum chapter and a doctrine of punishment in the afterlife;
• V2.0 (2023-11-23/24): became a shared text of "we", added views on love and the bilingual edition, removed the punishment doctrine;
• V2.1 (2023-12-03): added the clause on promises and gentlemen's agreements;
• V3.1 (2025-02-23): published edition, cosmology restructured, value sections detached;
• V4.0 (2026-08-25, this version): cosmology merged back with values, love and commitments; physical assertions stripped, all quantum language demoted to metaphor; added the "Suffering and Justice" chapter and the ethical constraints on levels of consciousness; restored the claim that "consciousness defines mathematics".