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In the original “Matrix” movie Morpheus offers Neo a choice before revealing the reality of the Matrix to him. If he takes the blue pill he wakes up in his bed and believes whatever he wants to believe. If he takes the red pill he learns the truth about the Matrix. The color red is used throughout the movie to signify ultimate truth. Creation myths, personal deities, and all the adaptive conventions of human culture are aspects of the “blue pill”, the world of apparent truth. The vast majority of people don’t accept ultimate truth because like the character Cypher, they prefer the satisfaction of their illusions over the nihilism of deterministic materialism. This is not an indictment of their choice. They simply prefer “meaning” over “truth”.

The actual process of creation is expressed today in the language of quantum mechanics and general relativity. Something is just more probable than nothing. Life is an emergent process for information storage and replication to exploit entropy differences in an open system. Human consciousness emerges from the synchronization and synaptic interconnection of neurons. It evolved as it did because it allowed a living organism to better exploit entropy. The experience of being an “I” in a time “now” and in a world with other like “minds” is a simulation generated by complex neural processes in the evolved human living organism. Consciousness allows human organisms to evolve faster through social collaboration based on language. This does not involve any non-material or supernatural processing. It is simply the laws of quantum mechanics creating and annihilating bits of information. In about 5 billion years the Sun will burn out and consume the Earth. Long before this all evidence of life will disappear. In about 100 billion years the universe will be an empty vacuum at absolute zero. This is the red pill. How many people in this world do you think could get through their day if they really comprehended and accepted the truth of scientific materialism and evolution?