With 13.8 billion years of evolution now accelerating at unprecedented exponential rates of development, there is much fear of change in the world today.
To explore the similarities and differences between humans and machines, in May 1980, after resigning from my marketing job with IBM in London, I began a thought experiment in which I imagined that I was a computer that switched itself off and on again, so that it had no programs within it, not even a bootstrap program to load the operating system, not unlike those that led Albert Einstein to develop the special and general theories of relativity.
Although Aristotle did not use experiments to test his observations, experiments have played a central role in scientific method since Galileo and the establishment of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge in the 1660s. However, observing the results of experiments in our outer environment is not the only way of improving our understanding of Nature.
For me, experience is everything that has happened to me since my conception. Inner experience is primal; it is ‘what is’, prior to being cognitively interpreted, often influenced by one’s cultural environment.
Such life experience provides the evidence for the validity of the Unified Relationships Theory, which has emerged from the totality of human experience during thousands of years.
