AUSTRALIA MYTHOLOGY
Imagine that every human being is a portable biological computer.
This computer allows us to function in the physical world. It receives information through the senses, compares experiences, makes decisions and directs the body.
But perhaps the part that operates in the physical world is only one part of the complete system.
Human beings may function simultaneously within two dimensions of reality.
The first is the physical dimension that we already recognise. It contains the body, matter and the laws of physics that we can observe and measure.
The second may belong to another dimension of space or to laws of physics that we do not yet understand. We may not be able to measure this dimension directly, but perhaps emotion, intuition, meaning and consciousness allow us to sense some of its effects.
This is not presented as a proven scientific mechanism.
It is a model—a way of connecting experiences that many people recognise but find difficult to describe.
To understand this biological computer, imagine an immense warehouse filled with shelves and boxes.
From the beginning of life, information enters the warehouse.
Every box contains the complete record of an experience: images, sounds, smells, words, feelings, intentions, questions, choices and details that the conscious mind may no longer remember.
Some boxes are opened immediately.
Others remain closed for years.
Many may remain closed for an entire lifetime.
A child may hear words without understanding their meaning. A young person may pass through an experience without recognising its importance. Decades later, something happening in the present may connect with that earlier experience.
A box near the entrance suddenly connects with a box hidden far inside the warehouse.
We call this moment Eureka.
We may believe that we have discovered something entirely new. Perhaps the information was already present, waiting for the correct connection.
The conscious mind may rest, but the deeper system continues working.
An answer may arrive during sleep. It may appear while we are walking, gardening or sitting in silence. Sometimes it arrives only after we have stopped trying to force it.
This raises a question:
What if nothing is completely lost?
The brain does not need to display every piece of information at the same time. A computer also keeps most of its information in storage rather than continuously showing it on the screen.
Perhaps human memory works in a similar way.
But the warehouse may contain more than the record of what happened to us.
Imagine lines extending from every box like the strings of floating balloons. These lines pass beyond the walls of our personal warehouse and connect to another kind of box suspended outside it.
The inner box contains our experience.
The outer box contains the experience that our choice created in someone else.
Did our words create warmth or fear?
Did our actions build trust or destroy it?
Did we help another person grow, or cause that person to withdraw?
Did our decision create safety, confusion, hope or pain?
What consequences continued after we had walked away and stopped watching?
We usually judge ourselves by opening only our own box. We remember what we intended, what we knew and why our decision appeared reasonable at that moment.
But intention is only one part of the complete information.
The desire to understand the whole requires us to follow the connecting line and examine the effect.
A good intention does not always create a good consequence.
The absence of an intention to harm does not mean that no harm occurred.
Our experience and the experience created in another person are separate boxes, but they belong to the same event.
Only when both are connected does the information become complete.
This may be one of the feedback systems through which the universe allows consciousness to develop.
The purpose of this feedback would not be punishment.
Its purpose would be learning.
Through the possibility of experiencing both our choice and its effect, we receive the complete information required to become more aware, more responsible and more capable of creating warmth instead of pain.
Every experience may leave information behind.
Information contributes to belief.
Belief influences emotion.
Emotion influences thought.
Thought influences choice and action.
Action creates another experience.
Cause becomes consequence.
Consequence becomes information.
Information contributes to the next cause.
The biological computer is therefore not a closed machine. It is a moving part of a much larger feedback system.
Failure is not necessarily the opposite of success.
Failure contains information.
A child learns to walk by falling. A builder learns through mistakes. A scientist progresses when an incorrect answer reveals a better question.
The tragedy is not making a mistake.
The tragedy begins when shame, fear, pride or authority prevents us from examining the information contained within it.
Every person enters a different part of the warehouse.
One person becomes a musician. Another becomes a mathematician, builder, gardener, teacher or scientist. The difference is not their human value. Each person is naturally drawn towards different shelves and has different doors available to open.
Passion may be the light that guides us towards our particular part of the warehouse.
The deeper we follow it, the more connections become visible.
Logic helps the biological computer operate within the physical world that we already understand.
Emotion may help it recognise meaning and sense relationships belonging to laws that remain unknown.
Logic without emotion may calculate an action without understanding the human experience it creates.
Emotion without logic may recognise meaning but struggle to turn it into a clear and responsible decision.
Wisdom may begin when both systems learn to work together.
Perhaps this is how a human being functions in two dimensions at once: physically within the visible world, and through consciousness within a larger field of information, meaning and consequence.
We do not yet know the complete mechanism.
But not understanding a law does not mean that the law cannot exist.
The purpose of life may not be to open every box.
Perhaps it is to continue opening the boxes placed upon our path, to follow their connecting lines, and to understand more of the whole.
Not so that we can become more powerful than others.
So that we can become more responsible for what we create in them.
