Article: The Philosophy of Broader Survival — An Introduction

19 min readSep 5, 2019

Preliminaries: Observations, Questions, Answers, Assumptions, Generalizations, and Classifications

Note that I may change the title to The Philosophy of Perpetual Survival. The title issue is adequate descriptiveness and (sad to say) marketing. I have gone through ‘A New World Philosophy’ (which has been absconded by lesser thinkers), ‘The Philosophy of Universal Survival and Morality (for the Space Age, no less)’, and now the ‘Philosophy of Broader Survival’. I am not partial to any particular title — whatever hits and gets the word out there will do.

Observation #1: The World is Screwed-Up.

Just look around.

Observation #2: Humans are Cluelessness.

Just look around.

Observation #3: The World is Screwed-up BECAUSE Humans are Clueless.

By ‘world’ I meant humans.

Observation #4: Humans Have Always Been Clueless.

Just look at human history. It has been clueless and deplorable. Seen through the lens of cluelessless, it all makes sense.

Observation #5: The Root of the Problem is Philosophical (which is where values come from, which determine attitudes, which are currently clueless, and thus horrible).

The problem with humans is that they have never developed an adequate overall life-guiding philosophy (enter this philosophy). They have been retarded.

Reasonable Deduction #1: Cluelessness is blindly destructive.

Being clueless, you do not know what to value, and you do not even know what you are destroying, or when, or the value of it.

To summarize the above preliminaries: You have been born into a screwed-up world populated by clueless humans. They do not know what the point of life is, so they go through life as living absurdities. As a substitute for wisdom, they pretend. They walk with pretension, they talk with pretension, and their actions are pretentious, thus clueless. Human history has been clueless, and, as a result, it has been deplorable, as well as self-destructive. Just research any past clueless civilization that has self-destructed (there are many). Humans are still clueless, thus the often allow the deplorable to rule over them (a symptom of universal cluelessness). This means that all governments and nations are still clueless. Science forges ahead blindly and cluelessly. Governments run things cluelessly. Nothing guides the world leaders and their followers except vapid sayings construed on greeting cards, which are extremely weak when used as overall life-guiding philosophies (which no one particular saying can be, or even groups of sayings — they are trite platitudes that merely masquerade as adequate philosophies).

Question #1: Why have humans been clueless?

Answer: At first they were simply ignorant due to a lack of verified knowledge about the universe (reality). They ended up fabricating answers (religions and mysticism) as a stop-gap measure until actual knowledge magically appeared (it never did appear ‘magically’), and when it did via hard experimental work and insight, they ignored it out of fear or suppressed it to maintain power.

Question #2: Why are humans still clueless, given all of the verified knowledge that they now have about the universe (reality)?

Answer: They are fools now — choosing to ignore verified knowledge about the universe (reality), which brings us to the first two assumptions of this philosophy — assumptions which will shed light on ‘cluelessness’: one assumption about consciousness, and another assumption about its current security in a harsh and deadly universe:

Assumption #1: We are our consciousness, and our consciousness is not eternal — it will die with us. In biological beings, consciousness is biologically based, and it will die when their host biological bodies die. This assumption is based on existing evidence — there is zero evidence of anyone’s consciousness surviving after death. That it does not is the PRUDENT assumption to make, given zero evidence for the existence of a guaranteed eternal consciousness. It is imprudent to merely believe in life after death with zero evidence (since you will then not work for it, which will be ultimately suicidal). Since prudence is a virtue, any God must approve of this prudent assumption, and its subsequent path in life.

Assumption #2: Based on Assumption #1 (that we will die, and our consciousness will die with our biological bodies), the only hope for us continuing on after death is resurrection, and the only hope for resurrection is technology, and the only hope for that level of technology is a far-distant generation, and the only hope for such a far-distant generation is if we endeavor to continue life, and the only hope of us continuing life into such a distant future is to endeavor to broaden the security of life in this harsh and deadly universe, both in space and in time, meaning we cannot be content to sit on earth if we want to broaden our security in a harsh and deadly universe.

Piece of Verified Knowledge #1: The universe is a harsh and deadly place to us, and we, and thus our future generations, are not secure in it. This is not an assumption, this is realty. The universe has given us a window of relative calm. We need to use it to increase our broader survival, to increase the chances of the continuation of life in the universe.

Piece of Verified Knowledge #2: There is no evidence of other life in this universe, so we cannot (being prudent) rely on another species to arrive and ‘save us’ with superior knowledge and technology. We have to work for our own security, and not just local/immediate security, but broader security, which this philosophy calls ‘Broader Survival’ (which includes any aliens out there, and better if they are enlightened with this philosophy’s Final Enlightenment).

Explanation #1: ‘Broader Survival’ refers to surviving in a harsh and deadly universe, both in extended time (longer than our present lifetimes, and ideally perpetually) and in extended space (beyond this one planet, and ideally throughout the known universe, perpetually expanding our known bounds of it and our sphere of security within it). Humans today know that the universe is harsh and deadly (which also includes everything on earth, just to note, since earth is a part of the universe, including the microverse, where we encounter the broad hazards of runaway viruses, radioactive particles, and matter-eating strange quarks), but foolish humans choose to ignore broader survival issues, rendering themselves fools at worst, and non-cognizant lower animals actually ignorant of the hazards of the universes (macro and micro) at best, and in either case suicidal on a broader survival level. You can call current humans ‘clueless suicidal fools’, not knowing what to intelligently prioritize.

Explanation #2: Humans go about their daily lives pursuing clueless, foolish, petty goals, usually following the herd to remain socially safe, and all without a clue as to the critical need to address broader survival, and all without any adequate point to life. They have been, and still are, a sad, even horrible, species. They mistake pleasure and greed for the ultimate goals of life. They are not — and given a harsh and deadly universe, they are suicidal pursuits. They are Philosophies of Death (and you can tell them that).

Explanation #3: Looking at it from another perspective, broader survival refers to surviving beyond the ‘local/immediate’ in time as well as in space. The minds of lower animals are limited to local/immediate concerns, and they primarily exist by ‘reacting’. Local/immediate survival refers to food and shelter, which, in an advanced society, is not much of an issue. Yet most humans pretend that it is, hiding within such issues as a substitute for addressing broader issues (which they are capable of addressing, but are instead handicapped by traditional ignorant modes of thinking). They do not know what the Ultimate Value of Life is, and thus they (now foolishly rather than ignorantly) do not prioritize it (enter this philosophy). They sit around and gossip instead. They are pathetic.

Here is a diagram depicting human cluelessness:

Summary: Enlightenment means prioritizing, and prioritizing is based on attitudes, which are based on values, which come from philosophy. Humans have had weak philosophies, even those as low as being based on subjective values (enter this objective-value philosophy). This philosophy gives you the Ultimate Value of Life (the Objective Value), and hence the Ultimate Priority of Life (The Ultimate Goal of Life, which is concerned with survival, and not just survival, but broader survival). You may need to prioritize lower survival issues from time to time, perhaps in times of disaster, but to obsess with them is pure folly, and it is a symptom of universal cluelessness, which humans still suffer from.

Levels of Consciousness

These levels are necessary in identifying potentially-enlightenable beings, and prioritizing lifeforms, species, and individuals.

Classification System #1: Levels of Consciousness

aNot all levels of consciousness are the same. This philosophy classifies life into four levels of consciousness, ignoring finer gradients, but not dismissing them.

1. Enlightened Higher Consciousness.

This level is represented by humans who prioritize broader survival and consciously (proactively) address it, and who are not suicidal at a higher (broader) level of existence.

2. Unenlightened (clueless) Higher Consciousness.

This is the level of humans who do not prioritize broader survival or consciously (proactively) address it, and who are suicidal at a higher (broader) level of existence. They still primarily rely on ‘reaction’, like lower animals, rather than proaction, like enlightened beings.

3. Lower Animals.

They have a central brain capable of thinking, but they do not have the brain capacity to address broader survival. They are not able to conceive of the universe (or its hazards) beyond their own local/immediate sensory awareness, and they are incapable of acting proactively to address the broader hazards of the universe. They need the broader guardianship of higher beings (enlightened humans). Unenlightened humans exist at an animal level, and they therefore also need such guardianship, as if they, too, were mere lower animals (strutting around with their baubles like Bower Birds) with regards to consciously and proactively addressing broader survival (which in turn affects the prospects of individual survival, and also note that broader survival is composed of individuals).

4. Vegetation and Microbes.

These forms of life do not have a central brain, so they cannot even think. They are not aware of the broader universe, and they exist totally on reaction (chemical) (rather than proaction). Existing on reaction is inadequate in a harsh and deadly universe, where, against a cosmic calamity, merely ‘reacting’ is too late — you are already vaporized.

The Philosophy’s Structure

This philosophy has a structure. Any level affects all levels above it (but not below it). The levels are, from top to bottom:

The Great Struggle

Relevant Civilizations/Worthwhile Individual Lives

Ultimate Morality

The Strategies of Broader Survival

The Ultimate Goal of Life

The Ultimate Value of Life

Assumptions, Generalizations, Classifications

Verified Knowledge

Speculation, Myth, Make-Believe

The Great Unknown

The following is a graphical depiction (with detailed comments):

The Levels Explained

The Great Struggle

The Great Struggle is the perpetual struggle to continue to exist. It entails four general pursuits:

1. Defeating biological death

2. Avoiding accidental death

3. Pursuing resurrection technology

4. Pursuing the Ultimate Being State

The Ultimate Being State is that form of existence that can withstand anything that the universe can throw at it. Since infinity precludes it, it will never be attained, but the pursuit is important.

Worthwhile Lives/Relevant Civilizations

These are individuals and civilizations that CONSCIOUSLY pursue broader survival, meaning they prioritize it and they take proactive measures against broader threats to life in the universe (as well as proactively seeking-out broader benefits to life). Currently humans are clueless about it, which is not a good thing (cluelessness being blindly destructive and suicidal).

Ultimate Morality

This is made possible by the Ultimate Goal of Life, since good and evil are defined by goals (an insight of this philosophy, thank you).

The Strategies of Broader Survival

The Lower Strategies:

1. Population Increase

Every individual is important.

2. Population Diversity

Our differences are important, particularly our different adaptations to different habitats.

3. Population Dispersal

So we are not so easily annihilated by a harsh and deadly universe.

The Higher Strategies:

1. Extended Reason

Thinking beyond an animal level, and finding and implementing solutions to broader issues.

2. Proaction

Animals rely on reaction, which is too late when faced with broader hazards and calamities. Once you know of a broader threat, you want to develop a solution to it before it arrives. Note that the threats to life that we know about may be the least of the threats to life.

3. Higher Technology

Such as being able to live in different habitats and in other environments (serving the three Population Strategies), and pursuing the four parameters of the Great Struggle (defeating biological death, avoiding accidental death, pursuing resurrection technology, and pursuing the Ultimate Being State).

The Ultimate Goal of Life

The ultimate goal of life is to secure the Ultimate Value of Life, which is not secure yet (hence it still needs to be valued). In this case, it is to secure enlightened higher consciousness (which gets priority), and then all of life, in a harsh and deadly universe.

The Ultimate Value of Life

Enlightened Higher Consciousness. You currently have mere higher consciousness, which, when clueless, is blindly destructive and suicidal. Lower consciousness and non-conscious life cannot consciously address broader survival. They blindly address it by procreating, in the blind hope that a future strain of their species will become enlightenable.

Assumptions, Generalizations, Classifications

These are the mental tools that we use to sort out verified knowledge, and to deal with the endless data streams that our senses encounter on a daily basis.

Verified Knowledge

This is knowledge of reality that has been verified. Science produces it (but there is still a lot of bad science out there, so new scientific claims cannot be completely trusted. There are two sources of bad science: wrong interpretation of data and the media. The media distorts the content of scientific papers (for sensationalization purposes), distortions which are later proven wrong, giving science a bad name rather than irresponsible media without any principles. All other knowledge is still in a probability state (not being verified) — meaning it may be true, or it may not be true, or it may be true only in some cases — you just do not know yet, yet you must consider the probabilities.

Note: Science is more than just predicting things — it is also understanding how things work. You can predict something without understanding it (such as predicting a ball falling without knowing the mathematics of gravity). It stands to reason that your chances of survival are increased if you understand why things work (where you can better engineer survival technology using it) rather than just being able to predict things. Lower animals can predict things to a limited degree, but they do not understand the underlying physics with which to engineer higher technology with.

Speculation, Myth, Make-Believe

This is where religions end in attempting to understand reality. As you can reason, this does not return high odds of survival in a harsh and deadly universe. In fact, trying to survive in a harsh and deadly universe on make-believe (as religions would have you do) is suicidal (and thus foolish, and clueless). The only purpose this level of false dogma serves is surviving, be deference, among clueless humans.

The Great Unknown

This is that part of the universe which still holds broader threats and benefits to life which we have not discovered yet. Given infinity, this discovery will continue eternally (since, given infinity, we cannot know ‘everything’ since ‘everything’ is unattainable as a general rule), ane the broadening of our sphere of security in an infinite harsh and deadly universe will continue perpetually.

Random Scenario #1: There you are, pushing a pleasure lever (whatever it is in your clueless society) (and note that lab rats push pleasure levers until they die — ignoring actual food and drink, mistaking the pleasure lever for a necessity). You fashionably think that life is pointless. You can now see that such a hedonistic mode of fashionable thinking is a Philosophy of Death. This is where humans currently are at, mentally. They mistake pleasure for the end-goal of life, rather than broader survival as the end goal. You should now be able to see that hedonism is a Philosophy of Death. Conversely, the Philosophy of Broader Survival is a Philosophy of Life, and on a broader scale. You can choose a philosophy of life or a philosophy of death. On a moral plane, a philosophy of death is evil, and you can expect it to be dealt with accordingly (preferably eradicated, but ideally salvaging the clueless being underneath in hopes that it will enlighten itself).

The Pinwheel of Life

This classification/generalization presents four main areas of life that need to be addressed: (1) Addressing lower animal needs (food, shelter); (2) addressing broader survival (by addressing the broader threats and benefits to life in a harsh and deadly universe); (3) addressing procreation (the continuance of life); and (4) addressing RRR&R (rest, relaxation, recreation, and rejuvenation). The following is a graphical depiction of the Pinwheel:

I call it a ‘pinwheel’ due to the cyclical nature of addressing these areas of life.

Note that RRR&R includes aimlessness, which is sometimes the progenitor of new ideas. Enlightened aimlessness is not clueless, however — it is aimless with a higher goal (the generation of new ideas that positively affect our chances of broader survival).

Also note that including RRR&R assumes that we cannot work 100% of the time — that wthose parts of ourselves that we use in work eventually ‘burn-out’, and that those overworked parts (including the brain) need time to rest and rejuvenate, which recreation and relaxation provide.

Also note that current clueless, foolish, suicidal humans living by a Philosophy of Death mistakenly think that RRR&R are the end-goals of life. You can now see that they are not — the Great Struggle is (which is an endless struggle to continue to exist, given infinity and eternity). This is why rich people commit suicide — they cannot see the point of life, and RRR&R as end goals are insane. Such people are mentally ill due to a lack of an adequate overarching life-guiding philosophy., such as this one.

The Point of Life

This brings us to the Point of Life — in this otherwise chance, haphazard, and chaos-driven pointless universe, we make our own points (my saying is ‘The universe is pointless. I’d just like to make that point’) (get it? Now the universe has a ‘point’?…) (forget it). Our ultimate point is to endeavor to continue to exist (a Philosophy of Life). Why? We are obligated to work for (and argue for) life, since we are endowed with it (it embodies us). Let the dead work for (and argue for) death. So it comes down to ‘obligation’. Failing to adopt that perspective can be suicidal (and it is), and, who knows, it will also fail to keep a mystical life/death balance in the universe.

Evidence of the World Being Screwed-Up

The indications are all around you, but I will put them into words. By ‘the world’ I mean humans. Humans are screwed-up due to a lack of an adequate overarching life-guiding philosophy, which, as evidenced by a deplorable human history, they have never had. Enter this philosophy.

Evidence of humans being screwed-up is their lack of prioritizing broader survival. Instead of pursuing that enlightened goal, they instead pursue the common symptoms of cluelessness: vanity, envy, jealousy, revenge, prejudice, xenophobia, hate, war, crime, frivolities such as behavioral and material fashions and trends. They engage in the three blind mental pathologies: greed, domination, and manipulation (for example current Capitalism is driven by greed rather than need, which renders it destructive and deplorable). They suffer from clueless aimlessness, a lack of self-worth, depression, and suicide. Their governments are clueless, as are their reactionary laws. Their politicians, being clueless and reactionary, elevate petty issues and wait for problems to occur before taking action. Their judicial systems are a money-making joke. Economies are based on serving cluelessness, vanity, and frivolity. Education systems are philosophically lost and clueless, pushing a shallow subjective-value existence onto its pupils, who will become the next miserable adults as a consequence. None of the institutions have prioritized broader survival sufficiently. The humans running things have a vague sense f broader survival, but they continue to choose to ignore it, or they relegate it ato a low priority in favor of folly and fashionable cluelessness (which is blindly destructive, remember).

You can blame past and current philosophers for this sad state of human affairs. None have offered you an adequate overarching life-guiding philosophy to live by. Instead, you have charlatans publishing all kinds of clueless self-help books and pushing collections of vapid sayings or mysticisms. In the past, philosophers had an excuse — they lacked the necessary verified knowledge about the harsh and deadly universe to make sane judgments. Today’s philosophers are just plain fools, having sufficient verified knowledge to get started toward actual enlightenment, but disregarding it. They instead hide in history and name-dropping, or they play semantic parlor games, or they immerse themselves in applied philosophies (such as for education or business or law), only to spin their wheels in a subjective haze. Academic philosophers have been reduced to being game announcers, color commentators, and post-game analyzers, since they are not encouraged to freely think. They are not down on the field doing any appreciable thinking. In fact, advanced thinking is perilous to their careers (enter me — free from academic dogma and influence).

Where Bad Attitudes Come From

The come from two primary sources:

1. Outmoded traditional thinking based on ignorance, when humans suffered from a lack of verified knowledge, and thus a lack of an adequate life-guiding philosophy, and

2. Human fools, who currently ignore the vast amount of verified knowledge that humans have uncovered, in favor of fashionably foolish modes of thinking (which is where you are at, if you are human as I write this). Even if you resist foolishly fashionable modes of thinking, you are still clueless (enter this philosophy).

Enlightened Questions to Ask

When you become enlightened, you will be constantly asking the higher questions of life. Let me list them:

“Why bother to do anything at all?”

This philosophy has answered that at the highest level: “Because consciousness is a good thing.” (meaning it is worth preserving, which becomes your ‘doing something’).

“What next?”

The Ultimate Goal of Life gives you the ultimate guidance here, and, on lower levels, the Strategies of Broader Survival.

“How does this action, or contemplated action, affect Broader Survival?”

The lower form of this question concerns your local/immediate individual survival — that of you as a lower animal. In today’s advanced societies, this is a nearly non-issue, and one can devote most of one’s time addressing issues of broader survival, which in turn critically affects individual survival on a broader scale. Broader survival is made up of individuals, after all.

Note that when judging others, the question refers to THEIR actions or contemplated actions, where you are evaluating their good or evil as judged with respect to the Ultimate Goal of Life (securing enlightened higher consciousness, and then all of life, in a harsh and deadly universe), and where you then react with enlightened responses (working against evil and for good).

“How does this new Verified Knowledge affect the Philosophy of Broader Survival?”

Whenever new verified knowledge is obtained, the Philosophy of Broader Survival must be reevaluated for continued relevance. The contents may change (though the structure will not). For example, if our consciousness is discovered to already be eternally guaranteed, then we need not value it (since it is guaranteed), and we can then plug in the next Ultimate Value of Life into the structure (not all values being the same in value), which will have its associated Ultimate Goal of Life (to secure that as-yet unsecured value), which gives us a new Ultimate Determining factor between Good and Evil (good working for the Ultimate Goal of Life, and evil working against it), and a new definition of worthwhile individual lives and relevant civilizations.

Note that the weakest areas of the philosophy are the assumptions, generalizations, and classifications, which will be the first to be affected by new verified knowledge, and which will be the first to improve, affecting everything above them in the structure, including the Ultimate Value, the Ultimate Goal, and Ultimate Morality.

On Weak Mentalities and Mental Illness

Weak mentalities come in two forms: Weak and Depraved. Both are ultimately suicidal, one is just more destructive than the other. Neither prioritize broader survival.

Most “mental illnesses” are merely those that are clueless, and they vaguely know it, driving them crazy. In other words, most mental illnesses are not due to a psychological deficiency, but a philosophical deficiency — you are mentally ill because you lack a sane life-guiding philosophy, and you cannot find one among humanity, since they are still universally clueless themselves. Enter this philosophy. You could call it a Philosophy of Sanity rather than a Philosophy of Survival and Broader Survival (which are sane pursuits). Humans who cannot see the point of life (such as the Great Struggle) cannot find a sane enough purpose in life, and they either become destructively depraved (as a rebellion against cluelessness, though they are clueless about it), or unmotivated, depressed, and suicidal beings, like cells in situation-induced apoptosis. They cannot see the value in others with regards to the Population Strategies necessary for broader survival — Population Increase, Population Diversity, and Population Dispersal), so they treat each other in tragic, even horrible, ways.

On Religions

Religions have failed humanity in several ways:

1. They are elaborate systems of make-believe, and you cannot base your physical survival, or any life after death, on make-believe.

2. They are corrupt and self-serving. Man, in his clueless state, will corrupt everything he touches, even religious institutions. You see the depraved rising in the ranks of religious hierarchies, and then using them as tools for base self-serving worldly aims, usually along the lines of the three mental pathologies: greed, domination, and manipulation.

3. Religions have failed to adequately guide humanity. Humans still suffer from vanity, envy-seeking, jealousy, frivolity, prejudice, xenophobia, hate, war, crime, the three mental pathologies of greed, domination, and manipulation, along with vainglory, clueless aimlessness, suppressive dogma, social oppression and suppression, a lack of self-worth, depression, and suicide. Religions have failed because their foundation is pure make-believe rather than verified knowledge, and humans vaguely sense that make-believe is inadequate for survival in reality. So religions are largely ignored, along with their the tenets, which were stolen from the practical wisdom gained over lifetimes of observation (and which receive no credit from religions, hence ‘stolen’).

Article: The Philosophy of Broader Survival — An Introduction

Written by Mr. Numi Who~