Creativity and Deja Vu

Hooray, it's my first blog post since something like 2010, when I'd upload cartoons with hamsters here. What's that? You'd rather read those? Sure, you can look at old Hamsterdunce comics. Welp, see you later then.

Hey, for those of you left over, how'd you like to talk about what I think "deja vu" and "creativity" actually are, from a metaphysical standpoint? No? OK, see YOU later also.

Cool, for the six of you that are still reading, here's what I think about creativity and deja vu.

First of all, I think it's mighty pretentious putting little lines over the "e" and "a" of Deja. Maybe it's more accurate for its linguistic origin, but dudes. I don't use Chinese characters when I write down long lists of all my favorite Chinese foods (I do this every day, because it is fulfilling). I use the English approximation using my 26 crappy English letters. Sorry. So keep your little tildes and macrons away from my word-havings there, friendo.

So anyway, yay. We live in a MULTIVERSE! Every possible thing, person, and burned variance of the cheese sandwich you ate (or stuck in your butt) last week... every possible conceivable thingy that could ever exist or happen... IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW... and NOW... and ALSO NOW holy crap... it's all too much. Get it? It's a lot of stuff happening everywhere at every moment. One little universe... pssh. We're talking almost-infinite universes! Not actually infinite, because otherwise there'd be the possibility of multiverse-destroying monsters that negate the possibility of you reading this. And you ARE reading it (although maybe you wish you weren't), so... NO MULTIVERSE EATERS, and hence NO INFINITY. Boo. Only in the physics lab, bitches.

Anyway, now let's talk dimensions.

C'mon, stick around, I'll get to the deja vu shit soon enough.

OK, we all know what the three dimensions are. Length, width, depth. Line, square, cube. Yay. Once you get on up to smartiest string theorist brain-explody levels, you start looking at things TEN DIMENSIONALLY which is just bonkers. But fear not... the upper six dimensions are actually kinda vanquished by the present structure of timespace, and only exist at the Planck length (so small, dude... it's like WTF I can't even). But still, they exist! NEAT!

And you know how paper SEEMS two dimensional, even through it has a microscopically thin third dimensional thickness? Well, all substantial objects also have super-super "thin" dimensionality in higher dimensions, or just like the piece of paper, they would lose substance. The paper's spatial volume is 8.5" x 11" x 0.01" - equaling just under one cubic inch. If it had a thickness of "zero," its dimensions would multiply together to equal zero. So our bodies and brains also need some amount of hyperdimensional substrate to actually exist. SO (perhaps this could possibly mean that) WE ARE ALL TEN DIMENSIONAL BEINGS! RAAAR!!

And since our brains extend into dimensions of timespace that we do not fully comprehend, there could be explanations for many of life's heretofore unexplained phenomena, such as consciousness itself. Any true artificial brain will probably not have our nuanced level of sentient existence until we are truly awesome and badass enough to master the sciences of hyperdimensional shenanigans.

A couple of these phenomena are (YES WE HAVE ARRIVED TO MY POINT) deja vu and creativity!

I think both of these traits are hyperdimensional awarenesses of the currently experienced event, off kilter by an unknowable length of time! Deja vu happened sometime in the past (of your current universe), and creativity happened sometime in the future (of that universe).

If you feel like you just did something extremely similar to what you are currently doing (deja vu), then chances are, YOU DID, only in a parallel universe to your current universe (and it is indeed YOURS, which I'll blog about some other time).

If you get a spark of creativity, and can't help but end up doing that thing you just thought of, then it is very likely because YOU WERE DOING IT in a parallel universe, and your wonderful, hyperdimensional brain was somehow aware of that happening. That means that EVERY IDEA THAT YOU HAVE is actually a sort of hyperdimensional form of plagiarism... a creative asset that you steal from a version of yourself in another realm of timespace.