Hi, I had to move the question here from the mind forum, because it's really more about first causes.
We want to publish an idea on youtube about how the mind and the universe interact to shape the reality we see. The problem is that the requirements of the youtube format make the concept difficult to explain (short explanation without foreign words needed :( ). We hence thought it would be better to have others review the text first.

Münchhausen's infinity as a evidence for immortality

(Video starts with the picture of a burger) What do this tasty burger and your living feeling mind have in common? Easy.
You just have to reorder and remix the molecules in this burger and abra kadabra you get your brain alias mind. Maybe if you remix the burger in just the right way your mind even wonders if it's a sign of quality if a philosophy video starts with a burger. Of course, there are those nasty intellectually picky people that doubt things can magically appear out of nowhere. A further disadvantage of the theory is that if things can come from nowhere then maybe they can go back to nowhere too.


But don't panic, there is no nowhere and there never was one. To explain this better let's first imagine that mind and matter are in reality the same. Then become aware that mind and imagination are infinite. If the world is made up of just thought there is nothing like non-thought and hence a true void is impossible.
To understand this better imagine a mind containing every world you can dream of. And not just as thought but as real matter like you know it.
Imagine that it contains every culture, every building, and every being ever conceivable.
It's a place where all possible fantasies already exist and did exist since before the start of time.
This mind is whole, complete, free of any want or suffering. What you are trying to imagine is a pure and all-knowing eternal mind. Many call this mind god. But if you don't believe in the supernatural you can call it the source mind or the universal mind.
If you don't succeed imagining this don't panic. We are not build to understand infinity or eternity. But infinity is all around us. For example, it is assumed that the universe is infinitely big and that in the beginning, it was infinitely dense. In Einstein's theories space mathematically consist of an infinite number of infinitely small points. In the math of quantum mechanics, it was only possible to get rid of infinities by calculation tricks. And the idea of infinite worlds can be used to make sense of the observer effect, a quantum physics problem that still continues to baffle us all.
But why does everything in our daily life, including life itself than look so sadly finite? This might well be the result of a grand cosmic catastrophe that we naively call the big bang.
Our theory is that directly before the big bang the source mind, God's mind voluntarily reduced and simplified itself. It shrank to the most simple and most easily understandable form available: a point. Call what remains a splinter of god. It is a catastrophe because the splinter lacks almost all of God's infinitely rich thoughts and complexity.
But every end is a beginning too.
Out of this small seed, God was able to create us. We are beings that are not like him, precisely because we are not unlimited. This difference in nature separates us from him and therefore frees us to have our own identity.
Before the universe is expanding there is nothing going on in it; no matter, no time, no events. Just a mad mathematical singularity that defies our logic investigation. How then do you get the diversity back from this super boring point?
Well, the first step is that you need the universe to divide into two. You need matter and space to get form. From then on evolution first of matter than of life helped to recover some of the lost complexity of the source mind.
You hence can call evolution a recovery from amnesia. You only recover what you already owned. After the evolution of matter and life came the third age of evolution and recovery: the age of art. And many of us believe the feelings it creates are of divine origin.
But with what method do we rediscover the source mind's complexity?
The best explantion comes from Münchausens Trilema.
The central strategy of this mental trilemma is to ask the following: if God caused the universe who caused God, and who caused the one that caused...and so on.
This question leads either into a rhetorical dead end. Or it leads to an infinite regress of causes for the universe. Remember it's turtles all the way down! The third option is an infinitely repeating loop of circular reasoning - you really can escape infinity nowhere, as hard as you may try. Philosophy already discovered why we can not solve Münchhausens Trilema. It's because we only know what is untrue and not what is true. When we hence face such a question as "what caused the universe" we try to answer it by first subtracting all the events that can not possibly have caused the universe. This includes any event that came after the creation of the universe. We hope that whatever remains is the one and true cause. This is called deductive thinking. But at the end of this process, we become unsure if we haven't forgotten to subtract an untrue option. We hence start everything from scratch again. This would not happen if we directly knew what's true once we see it.
Deductive thinking however is destructive thinking too. In your brain, you destroy the answers that you consider false. We suggest that this does not only happen in your brain but that this destruction happens in reality too. Mind and matter could be the same substance, remember? So they can be destroyed in the same moment too.
In reality, our entire mind might make sense of the world by deleting surplus options and objects until only one clearly identifiable object remains. This skill would only be needed if every object is in reality multiple things and hence can have multiple identities. But this is exactly what we suggest: Every world is multiple worlds, we reduce it to one and thereby create our own world. It's a necessary destruction because we can only understand things when they have one, and just one clear identity. However, we are not in all cases successful in destroying objects until this one understandable identity remains. Quantum particles for example can be in multiple conflicting states at once.
If something is too many things then it seems to be nothing to us. This happens because objects with multiple identities are information overflow to us. Imagine for example a painter that has mixed all colors there are. This gives no picture you can make sense of, it simply gives black. Only when you subtract at least one color you can see something. And this is the same what our mind does with the source mind: it subtracts and destroys large parts of it, to be able to perceive and feel whatever remains. This will, by the way, be a pure problem of human perspective. Of course just because we refuse to see the source mind this does not mean it's gone.
Not only does everything happen in God's mind eternally it happens at the same time as well. So the source mind does clearly not obey the laws of human logic. It doesn't have to think this way because the source mind is so smart that he can handle multiple realities at once. But we can't do that. How does destructive thinking create our understandable reality?
Take this picture as an example: In the source mind, it is an infinite number of pictures. We just through a collective vote agreed that this is the only one that is allowed to stay real FOR US. Yes, we might decide in a vote together what's real for us and what's not. We just do this voting subconsciously, invisibly. Or as another example think about the music you are listening to: if you can hear this sound then an infinitely large number of songs and noises that exist elsewhere had to be shut off to make the melody understandable. Music is like a hole in more music.
Another way would be to imagine the universe as a photographic negative where everything is inverted. Wherever there seems to be a lot of stuff, there is in almost nothing. Wherever there seems to be nothing there is almost everything. The vacuum of space is filled with the quantum field. And in the quantum field matter just pops in and out of existence at a whim. Can we here witness the process of voting things into and out of our reality live?
God's utterly confusing mode of thinking certainly feels a bit like the black void that we feared would come after our death or before the universe. But be aware that with a stronger mind you still could perceive and understand stuff where we now perceive and understand nothing.

The stronger our brains become through evolution the more forms we can allow to become visible. This is because our mind simply can handle more and more forms, it's a self-reinforcing effect. This is our job on earth, remembering and recovering the lost wholeness of the source mind. At least as far as we can, because we probably can't recover infinity. Our body rewards us with good feelings for creating more forms and it punishes us with pain for losing diversity. You never heard about that?
But you surely heard that our body gives us signals that shall enhance our genetic survival and the numbers of our offspring. This signals, for example, happiness and lust have the same effect as rewarding us for creating new forms and new diversity. It's like we can already feel eternity for a short moment. So all our suffering is in reality connected to the fact that we are just a splinter of god, not whole anymore. When evil like in this case is not something but the lack of something it's called privatio bono. Privatio Bono is literally the privation of the good. The concept is used as a powerful defense against the problem of evil.
But why could have god not just made us perfect gods and minds besides himself? Well, where is beside the source mind, when matter is mind? The truth is that he could only make us into weaker minds, mentally small enough so that we can be nested into his mind.
Time and causality exist only because our mind is not strong enough to explore things differently than in a step-wise fashion. Ordering stuff in a causal timeline makes things so much easier to understand too. This explains why Münchhausens Trilema must lead into some kind of circular reasoning. Think about it:
We cause causality through the simplified paths our weak mind has to take when exploring the source mind. In other words, you are the cause of the universe that you can see and touch, but not the totality of reality. Astonishingly the empirically verifiable part of reality that you cause includes you. Or it at least includes empirical facts about you like for example that you have a body and are a human. It excludes what your consciousness is made of, which is not open to empiric investigation. When we explore brain scans for example we just explore correlates of consciousness and not the thing itself. That you can not empirically understand the nature of your consciousness is already a strong hint towards its immortality: It means you could not destroy enough aspects of said consciousness to come to a clear conclusion of what it is. And this means that there must be something completely indestructible about souls.
Back to the subject: In the empirical sense you cause yourself and everything around you. This can only work if your consciousness came before your logical thinking capabilities. Otherwise causing yourself would be a textbook case of circular reasoning. Let me explain this better: The non-logic part of yourself is you but in a slightly different version. If your nonlogic alter ego came before your empirically verifiable embodiment, then it can not be held against your predecessor that he had no cause. Why not? Because at the time where this part of you already existed there did not yet exist causes. Causes and logic were something that you created. The nonlogic, non-causal is the eternal source of everything. The Egyptians called it the nun. The nun is a kind of bottomless ocean of disorder and chaos which gave rise to everything that has form. If something came before causes it has no cause in itself and hence must have been there eternally. That Münchausens Trilema either ends you in infinite loops of circular reasoning or that it directly catapults you into the infinite past of the eternal regress is hence good evidence for this type of eternity. And an eternal mind is the same thing as an immortal mind.
A second hint for the existence of the nun comes from the mathematical unsolvability of Gödel's incompleteness theorem. Gödles thought experiment shows that any attempt to define a clear and complete mathematical logic will again lead to an unsolvable infinite regress. Math can not include the unlogic, but because the unlogic is true, math will always remain incomplete.

What will it feel like when you die? That can not be understood through words, because words are part of our destructive human logic. But picture it this way: Everything you experience is like a hole in the whole of the source mind. One can not destroy a hole, one can just fill it. Depending on how far this hole will fill you will either become one with the universe or you will become one with the even greater mind of god. If you become god then all feelings of want and sadness will have gone since you are complete again. If you become just the universe such negative feelings will at least greatly reduce as you gained a lot of richness and diversity in the process of blending with everything around you. There is however a third option, the Christian option. We will discuss this option in relation to heaven and the tree of knowledge. Because remember there is a holy book that always warned us that there could be something lethal about our desire for logic, understanding, and control. And this is the book of genesis. Is there a way back to the garden of Eden, if we give up the desire to understand and control god's mind?