About The Other Realm

What is The Other Realm?

To understand the term fundamentally, it makes sense to break things down into the individual words.  A realm is a set of applicable theories, laws, and beliefs.  Other Realms are realms which are different from currently accepted norms.  The Other Realm is a specific instantiation of other realms which is different from the current set of conventional ways of doing thing and seeks to be a better model for the individuals who come to use it.

What are the "theories, laws, and beliefs" applicable to The Other Realm?

Although an inherently dynamic and evolving concept, these are some of the current core philosophies on which The Other Realm will base its logic:

• That oneself is an instantiation of us and that we all exist
• That our purpose is to ensure the perpetual net increase in our individual and collective homeostasis while also adding to the individual and collective allostasis of humanity
• That anything is related, in some way, to anything else, if only by their lack of any other relation to each other – if things are known, this fact that they are known is a relationship, and if things are unknown, this is also a relationship
• That the absence of something is an unknown, not nothing, because there is no way of knowing there is not something without an observer to know that there is nothing to this lack of something.
• That, in order for something to exist, and not be an unknown, there must be more than one distinguishable thing, because an unknown is a thing, an observer is a thing, and the act of observing something, is a thing
• That the conscious self consists of the ability to influence these observable changes
• That, by combining these observations and actions into meaningful relationships, we can form encapsulated objects that are distict from their individual parts
• That, given the inherent relationship between things, there cannot be known encapsulated objects in isolation
• In order for any discrete system to be known, there must be input and output of some kind
• Therefore, in order to achieve our purpose, we must maintain a sustained net input into our system by the exchange of resources between our parts and the unknown.

What are some of the ways in which we hope to actualize on the realm of ideas to which we hold?

In short, by creating swarms of self-reproduceable biorobots which are extensions of our conscious self.  This will have the goal of ensuring redundancy and resilience in the face of calamity and vastly increase our current abilities.

• Realizing this is an extraordinarily formidable task to achieve, we will break things into smaller parts:
  • A robot platform that's processing and memory systems are living cells (derived from various organisms – the idea is to have one platform that can swap out different species/organoids with minimal effort)
    • MVP – a small four wheeled autonomous robot that receives sensor data from a connected smartphone and possibly other sensors and interacts with a grid array of stimulation/reception electrodes that terminate in the organism being studied.  The goal is to create a simple to use, end consumer device that democratizes the creation of synthetic life ⇿ computer robotic research
  • A brain-computer-interface system that has two way biofeedback capabilities so as to make the abilities of both the person and the machine more intelligent (ensuring that the machine's capabilities are dependent on the person's enhancement)
• Find intermediary ways of improving our abilities and in recovering from setbacks – if people have to use an assistive device, can it function better than the original or have novel features?  Can we find new ways to communicate, new appendages, ex.
  • Not all solutions need to be complex – there are many advances in technology that have a way simpler design and production process than their predecessors such as 3D printing vs having a whole shop of assembly workers
    • 3D printed one off shoes