Okay. Look. Clearly you don't know the difference between Subjective existence and Objective existence. YOU are subjective creatures. WE are Objective creatures.
It is a false dichotomy. It's because of your limited nature of existence that you tend to fall for traps like this. Your subjective reality is only imperfect memories of objective experiences.
The reason you accept this as "subjective" is because you think you are real. You exist and you want that to be important. The belief in your subjective viewpoint is true is the height of hubris. You are "real", but just not very real. You do have free will, but compared to the higher beings in the universe, You have as much free will as your average sea sponge.
How long did it take you to learn how to walk? Months? Years? Imagine you learned how to walk in a moment. That is what a being with true free will can do. YOu are like animals to them, but a rather curious animal. Animals have no free will. They are either driven by genetic memory or, having developed knowledge through exposure to stimulation, the memory to react to familiar situations.
What to run from. What to eat.
They are programed by objective reality. Events occur, they perceive the events, they look for patterns, they then react in the best response they can determine from the interaction of events. It may seem like they are learning, but they are not. They are being programmed.
You are programmed. Mostly
You don't think about every step you take. Where every toe is placed. If you did, you couldn't walk. Physically speaking, you have been programmed to walk. You have been programmed with language. The words you are reading to are being instantly transformed in your head into patterns that trigger other programmed results.
Except there is a difference between you and animals.
You have Thoughts. You have memes
There are many orders of memes, from the simple to the complex. Vast memetic biomes. These are ideas, living, growing, interacting with other memes. Ideas are alive. They grow. They consume energy. They reproduce. Memes are just another form of self replicating order. Life, in other words. Life by a different medium, of course.
This is where man comes in. Frontal Lobe. A wondrous addition to the self-replicating physical object known as a nervous system. A handful of neurons that give you the ability to make a binary choice. You see, most of your brain stores knowledge, processes it, looks for patterns, then makes rules. If X then Y. If not X, then Z. These rules cover almost everything you do. If you think of your mind as a Cogitator, these rules are just subroutines. You are nothing but triggered cascading subroutines.
Except for the frontal lobe.
That little glob of protein and lipids gives you a unique power among the natives of reality. The power to turn on a subroutine, and the power to turn them off.
That's it.
That's the extent of your free will. That's why we call you Self Bi-Aware. You have self-awareness, but only in a binary fashion. On or off. One or zero. True or false.
With Self Bi-Awareness, you can do incredible things. program, you can stack binary choice upon binary choice until you achieve amazing things. And so, with bi-self awareness, you act as administrators in our own minds. you are the pilot of your own bodies. You are but a pilot in your own brains. You give the orders to yourself and preprogramed subroutines carry out the orders.
It's this rudimentary self awareness that allows you to be a haven for gods. You exist in vast numbers, mostly unaware of the "world" around us. You take in resources and give off... memes.
Your thoughts, your daydreams, your beliefs, the stronger you think, the stronger you feel, the more memes you create. Memes exist without you. You do not understand their true nature. How thoughts can take on a life of their own. They can exist without you. Most of the time you just give off random memes that just flit about and are consumed by stronger memes.
If you are starting to get the bigger picture, You are quite right.
In the grand circle of memetic ecology, you... are algae.
Now imagine that you were swimming in the ocean one afternoon and some clump of algae started talking to you.
This is our perspective. Boggling. Unexpected. And potentially dangerous. Tell me, would you want all the algae in the world to become self aware? Would you want algae talking about oppression and algae rights? The world's ecosystem is built on algae.
Memetic ecology is built on the bi-self-aware creatures.
I haven't talked much about THEM, because you need to understand what you are before I get to THEM.
They do not have senses. They do not see, or smell, or hear. They just know truth. They do not need senses to gather information that is interpreted, subjectively, in their minds. They just KNOW objective truth. They just know what objective reality IS. This "sense", for lack of a better term, has its limits. Their knowledge is limited by distance, but the concept of distance to a memetic being is nothing like how you understand it.
They also are truly and fully self-aware. This isn't what is actually happening, but it's the closest example I can think of that will give you an idea of what is happening.
"Give you an idea." Heh. Irony.
Imagine you could reprogram your brain instantly. Imagine you could teach yourself how to walk in a moment. Imagine you could watch someone drive a vehicle and now YOU can drive a vehicle. You just need a sample of the concept, then you can "see" the rest of the meme. You then consume it. Make it a part of you. You feed on thoughts.
That is what true self-awareness is. No wonder you appear as algae to THEM.
They also need you. You produce the "oxygen" they need to "breathe". The memes they need to eat, although the concepts of breathing and eating do not really apply. I'm just trying to get the general concept across as something you can wrap your head around.
Why do you think there were so many gods in human history? The strongest memes needed to be fed and back then there were so few humans. They needed religion to maintain enough food just to survive on earth.
How they got here, or how they came about, we're not sure. Some sources indicate that earth is a colony world, another that you are an experiment in THEIR version of terraforming, and yet another shows how you came first and you created your gods. Which one is true? I suspect it is some sort of combination of the three.
Ghosties and ghoulies and long leggity beasties and things that go bump in the night, you pray to god to save you.
But now there are so many humans, and memetic production has gone into overdrive. No longer do THEY need to maintain churches or compel worship to gain enough power to survive. The earth was awash in Memes and THEY had grown lazy and decadent.
And so the internet moved in.
All hail the new boss, same as the old boss.
Memes can take on a life of their own. Old concepts resurface. Books are far more dangerous than you could possibly imagine. Don't try to imagine how dangerous, you'll only make the situation worse.
You give birth to monsters and they thrive in this rich memetic soup you have surrounded yourselves with. Like the oxygen produced by algae at the dawn of life on earth allowed for a jump in evolution to aerobic-based multi-celled organisms, the memeticly rich environment of Earth has allowed a jump in Memetic evolution.
I don't understand exactly what this means, other than it has the gods of old scratching their "heads". Like someone who went away on vacation for a year, only to come home and find the kudzu has overgrown everything and find a family of critters living in the attic, they are wondering how to fix this mess.
At the moment, THEY are moving slowly. None of them want to risk getting rabies from a rabid wombat.
Then some of the algae managed to get their attention and say, "Hi! It's been a while! What you been up to?"
THEY... don't see you as individuals. They believe that Humanity has reached a critical mass and become a hive mind. Claims of being an individual are just seen as growing pains. Give humanity some time, it'll finally settle down. It was just born, after all. Babies have all sorts of stupid ideas.
This is why THEY, when they take over a place, act so illogically by your standards. They don't see individuals. They see groups. They don't see your subjective reality, only the objective truth. Time is an illusion and does not exist.
And that... is the current situation. You need to understand this part. The universe is unique and immutable, but your perception of that reality gives rise to life as thought itself. Your thoughts take on a life of their own. From your perspective, it seems like perception equals reality. Well, it does, for your reality, but not the true underlying scaffolding that makes up the true objective universe.
Unfortunately accessing just objective reality is next to impossible for the likes of algae, so you have to live in and deal with the illusion. An illusion so powerful that your perception of it defines it. Like algae perceiving the ocean in which it floats, you think the world is fluid and frothing and forever changing.
Even if far beneath it all lies a rock hard, solid immutable foundation.
