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From an independent thinker, a nobody, somewhere in this harsh world.
Abstract
Everyone strives to achieve happiness, love, attention, and validation. There is an endless chaos in the interactions between us humans as we search for ways to achieve these things. In the future, artificial intelligences might also play a role as new intelligent, self-aware beings that will interact with us. This will also influence our pursuit of these goals. Here’s a proposed fundamental equation that shows what I think is the five most important elements of reality and how they interact to determine how much happiness, love, attention, and validation, E, we achieve.:
where E depends on:
• 1: Resource capacity (m): Human access to food, housing, money, and other useful material objects. For Artificial intelligences (AI): AIs computational power and data access.
• 2: Relational distance (r): Physical and mental distance between humans. For AIs: The degree of alignment of values between humans and AIs. In general, the degree of physical and mental distance relative to others.
• 3: Capability ratio (Ap1/Ap2): The degree of physical and mental power, position, and abilities compared to others. For AIs: AI’s capability relative to humans and other AIs. (If an AI (Ap1) is ”outstripping” humans or other AIs (Ap2), there is power asymmetry -> Ap1/Ap2 = greater than 1).
• 4: Lifetime left to live (g): For humans: Lifetime left to live. For AI’s: Operational lifespan left.
• 5: The constant speed limit in the universe (c): This is assumed to be 1 if not specified, or as light-speed if one want to convert available mass into pure energy, according to Mr. Einstein. Mass is always in motion, either externally moving through space or internally with elementary particles constantly moving and rotating around each other. This motion affect space, causing space to vibrate. Vice versa, space always affect mass, causing mass to vibrate/move. Therefore mass always reflect the energy that mediates through space.
As the noob that I am, after what feels like an eternity of observing the chaotic interactions between ordinary working-class people, leaders, politicians, the rich and the poor, the intelligent and the less so, and countless others, I have come to a simple yet profound conclusion: the reality we live in is, at its core, remarkably straightforward.
We are all striving for happiness, and the amount we attain is ultimately governed by the simple equation above.
The basic and first element in the equation is our access to mass, i.e. food, housing, electricity, means of transportation, and so on. If we have too little access to this, then we simply die. The degree of access to this provides the starting level for our feeling of happiness. But how much joy or benefit we get from this is also determined by how our interactions with other people are. (If my interactions with people around me have been bad lately, it will be hard to enjoy a good meal for instance). The connections here are surprisingly simple. A few examples:
Unchecked growth in capability, power, or position (Ap1/Ap2 »1), as well as increasing physical or emotional distance (r ↑), can erode happiness for those involved:
Consider a friendship where both individuals start off with a balanced dynamic in terms of abilities, power, and social standing, while also being physically and mentally close. They can visit each other, have meaningful conversations, and share similar values and interests. Now, imagine that Person 1 suddenly secures a much more prestigious and demanding job than Person 2. This leads to a significant increase in his/her financial status (salary/money) (m ↑), which naturally boosts his/her happiness. However, this shift also disrupts the balance in the relationship between the two friends (Ap1/Ap2 »1) which increases the distance between them (r ↑), potentially reducing overall happiness.
Such a sudden change in status, power, and wealth can seriously impact their friendship, depending on how both individuals navigate the situation. Many different outcomes are possible. Ultimately, Person 1 must reflect on whether the rise in salary, status, and power is worth the growing distance from his/her friend, or whether person 1 can use some of his/her newfound influence to support his/her friend, fostering a shared positive outcome instead, ultimately leading to increased happiness also for his/her friend.
Isolated rise in pure distance to other people (r ↑):
If a friend suddenly starts to reject you—whether subtly through their comments or outright by spending less time with you—you will inevitably feel a painful decline in happiness. This often leads to both sadness and anger. It goes without saying: as the distance between friends grows, happiness fades. No amount of money can make up for the loss of friends.
Making love: r < 0
Meaning that distance become not only zero, but in the act of love itself, distance between the lovers become negative, for instance -0,1, meaning that your mass must be divided on a number less than 1, i.e. (1+(((-0,1•(1/1))/10))^2 = 0,98 assumed r=-0,1, Ap1/Ap2=1/1 and g=10, which increase your mass -> entails the foundation for the creation of a new human life -> your female lover gets pregnant, if measures are not taken to prevent such. It’s a crazy interpretation, but it strictly follows from the equation that such a scenario triggers the formation of new bodily mass, which means new life
g: Lifetime left to live (e.g., years until final death):
If person 1 is told that he/she has cancer and only has a short time left to live, then his/her happiness will be drastically reduced. This goes without saying. Everyone can understand it intuitively. This is the fifth and final element in our reality that affects our level of perceived happiness.
There are no fixed rules for which values or numbers should be used in this equation. What matters is observing how the resulting degree of perceived happiness changes from one scenario to another.
The reason I have squared the denominator (the part of the equation below the line) is that I have both personally experienced and observed in others how small changes in our interpersonal relationships can lead to significant shifts in our overall happiness. I have therefore concluded that this part of the equation behaves non-linearly — more like a squared relationship.
Regarding your available mass: Your bodily mass is energy, limited by (mc^2 ), folded into form. It means that your energy, including your feelings, thoughts, will, motion, decisions, love, etc., is what makes you, you. It is not your elementary particles. It’s the space between your atoms that sings, that make you feel, think, love..., sense yourself. So, here in this life, your energy, including your happiness, is limited in time by how, and how long, your bodily mass is functioning, by how much and what material objects you can use to support it and nurture it, and how your abilities and relations with other people are. Because the vibrations in space between your atoms only occur as long as your body is alive and capable to contain them in line with the purpose of your body. Which means that you are space, temporarily contained in, and restricted by, a given body with certain properties and conditions, here on earth. When your body die, you will be released and continue on as the pure energy and part of space you are, my friend, unrestricted by earthly conditions, in another realm, under different conditions. So, basically, you can reset your lifetime left to live to infinity if you start seeing yourself as the pure soul you are, merely passing through this earthly life as a temporary journey, with specific conditions, restrictions and circumstances, confined to this particular place.
I cannot understand this in any other way. So, this made me write a poem.