【VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED】I Want to Tell You About My Realization About the Nature of Life

A thread was posted on a certain anonymous message board. The thread starter suddenly begins making shocking claims that overturn common knowledge.

Only read this if you’re prepared as it might cause depression

• [2]Alright
• [4]Hurry up and write it

I want you to imagine that there are life particles. The more these particles gather, the more intelligent life forms are born

• [7]What?
• [11]I’m depressed now
• [12]What do you mean?

When life particles gather to a certain extent, they develop a structure that gives birth to self-awareness

• [16]The selection has already begun, hasn’t it?
• [21]This is scary

Participants begin to show confusion yet interest in the thread starter’s unique concept of “life particles”.

Self-awareness is the consciousness that “I am alive.” We call this life and treat it as special, but it’s actually not special at all—it’s just the result of a certain number of life particles gathering together

• [34]So we’ve already opened Pandora’s box. That’s scary, isn’t it?
• [27]Yeah, that’s right
  So our lives aren’t special, they’re just results following the rules of truth. It’s quite a sad story, isn’t it?
• [41]No way… this can’t be true… I want to die…
• [46]But that would only apply to humans. What about animals and insects that also have life?

The life I was born with isn’t special; it’s just the result of a certain number of life particles gathering together

• [62]You’re not special regardless of particles, so relax
• [64]Life particles gathering to create life sounds wonderful 😍
• [71]You were never special to begin with
• [55]No such thing exists. End of story

The thread gradually develops into a philosophical discussion. Participants’ reactions vary, with some despairing, others calmly arguing, and some showing interest.

That’s because they have fewer life particles than humans. Humans somehow managed to gather more life particles during the process of evolution

• [70]So… what does that mean!?
• [75]Self-awareness isn’t such a big deal

If I were to offer one hope, what do you think would happen if something could gather more life particles than humans?

• [84]Human Instrumentality Project
• [86]Life is nothing more or less than an extension of self-replicating molecules
• [106]So what exactly does that mean?

The thread starter gradually shifts the discussion toward aliens and human evolution. References to popular culture appear, such as the term “Human Instrumentality Project” from the anime “Neon Genesis Evangelion”.

There are already life forms with more life particles than humans. You can call them aliens if you want. I think we need to reach that level, otherwise our lives will just be meaningless existences that are automatically born and then disappear

• [111]Are you an alien? 👽
• [146]Why do you think humans are at the top?
• [110]The selection of life has already begun
• [124]The selection seems to have started

As we are now, we’re just meaningless lives that are born and disappear according to the rules of truth. I want you to remember that. We need to advance to the next stage

• [140]You’re one stage ahead of us
• [129]This is something you should absolutely never talk about, you know?
• [131]Were you influenced by Anpanman?
• [132]Recent research suggests that the body moves before self-awareness decides to act. There seems to be something controlling this body that isn’t ourselves, and our self-awareness merely creates the illusion that we decided to act after the action has already been determined
• [138]Leave this kind of stuff to the SCP Foundation
• [139]But I guess people probably reacted like this when Galileo proposed heliocentrism

Some participants reference fictional organizations like the “SCP Foundation” or characters like “Anpanman,” incorporating jokes and sarcasm typical of Japanese internet culture as the discussion continues.

From today, I want everyone to begin: • Not being controlled by hunger. • Not being controlled by sexual desire. • Not being controlled by the need for sleep

• [162]Why?
• [166]That’s not for everyone, that’s just you being controlled by those things
• [171]What a problematic person
• [179]Life has no meaning if you abandon desire
• [208]But isn’t there an easier way to reach the next stage without doing something so difficult?
• [150]Is this the human revolution?
• [156]Thread starter, you’re amazing

The thread starter suddenly shifts the discussion toward Buddhist-like practices and the abandonment of desires. The term “human revolution” evokes concepts from Japanese new religious movements.

I’d like to keep this next part secret, but there have probably been people in the past who were born as humans but reached the next stage

• [168]Is this ancient Greece?
• [169]Humans need to evolve beyond biological humanity. The limitations of humanity are too apparent

Buddha, Jesus Christ, Kukai. Perhaps even Da Vinci. And more recently, maybe Dr. Hawking

• [190]That’s scary
• [187]Depressing
• [210]There’s no consistency in that lineup
• [216]Buddha actually hated people like you who couldn’t face reality
• [229]But Buddha abandoned his wife and child

The thread starter brings up religious leaders and historical figures to support their theory. Participants respond with sarcasm and point out historical facts to counter these claims.

There are people who have cultivated a higher consciousness within their awareness and grasped “true life.” Everyone else has false life, and that includes us

• [235]Life is just a collection of short-term purpose chains. The very act of thinking about life is just a byproduct ability that humans developed to survive. It’s like a giraffe whose neck has grown so long for survival that it gets stuck
• [211]Let me tell you one good thing. Don’t think too hard, just try to make your tomorrow, month, and year fulfilling. Even if you live a long life, it’s only about 100 years. Live without regrets
• [213]This is scary, isn’t it?
• [221]Really? I can’t take it anymore, I’m going to cut my wrists…

The discussion evolves into existential questions, with some participants showing serious reactions. “Wrist cutting” refers to self-harm in Japanese slang.

Since we only live once, let’s live earnestly. If we don’t reach the next stage, there is no afterlife. It’s better to believe this isn’t a lie. There is no afterlife

• [233]I think the thread starter’s idea is close to emergence. Google it
• Emergence: Emergence refers to properties that appear in a whole system that are not simple sums of the properties of its parts. When multiple local interactions become complexly organized, systems emerge that cannot be predicted from the behavior of individual elements. Most things and organisms in this world contain multi-layered hierarchical structures, and in such hierarchical structures, even if we allow for a deterministic and mechanistic worldview, describing the elements of the lower layer and their behavior alone makes it practically difficult to predict the behavior of the upper layer. Properties that did not originally exist in the lower layer may appear in the upper layer. Or properties that do not exist in the lower layer may also appear in the “implementation” state of the upper layer or in macro-scale interactions. Emergence in biology: Life is a bundle of emergent phenomena. Alan Turing’s hypothesis is known for describing phenomena such as striped patterns appearing on animal body surfaces, tiger bush and fairy circles in plants, as macroscopic manifestations of the results of life activities of seemingly unrelated organizations or individuals (Turing patterns). In addition, while it has been found that individual nerve cells behave relatively simply, we have not yet been able to understand the intelligence possessed by the entire brain from this. Furthermore, in evolutionary theory, unexpected abilities can be acquired through the combination of genes due to mutations or crossover. In evolutionary theory, in addition to the interaction between individual organisms, there is also an aspect of interaction with the environment. In the definition of emergence, there are cases where such asymmetric elements are recognized. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/創発 Termite Cathedral DSC03570 Termite mounds are an example of emergence in nature.
• [236]Isn’t “life particles” strange from the start? Wouldn’t “life atoms” be better?
• [245]So that’s “what” it means…
• [246]This discussion doesn’t get anywhere unless life particles can be observed

One participant introduces the scientific concept of “emergence,” attempting to provide a scientific framework for the thread starter’s discussion. A Wikipedia quote is posted, giving the discussion an academic flavor.

If our lower-dimensional lives end, we die and that’s it. I believe there is no reincarnation, and I’m not wrong about that. If you want eternal life, you must gather many life particles and evolve yourself. This will also lead to the salvation of other lives and ultimately save everything. Past pioneers called this Nirvana

• [261]So people with slightly more life particles are the extraordinary ones in today’s human world?
• [265]It’s not the universe creating life, but life creating the universe
• [266]You look like you eat life particles
• [268]So the “selection” of life has already begun
• [283]I see.
• [258]Life particles sound nice. Let’s all cherish them

Finally, the thread starter brings up the Buddhist concept of “Nirvana,” connecting their theory to religious enlightenment. Various reactions continue as the thread becomes a unique forum for discussion blending philosophical, religious, and scientific elements.