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Eureka —The New Belief System — LessWrong

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Eureka —The New Belief System

6th Nov 2025

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I have founded a new belief system called Eureka, and I'd like to share with you how I see the world.

This is how I first saw it:

I looked at all the chaos and suffering in the world, and I had to find a reason for it. I thought, what if God, the Creator, never actually intervenes? What if He is only the Observer? The idea that the Creator is pure observation was elegant because it removed all contradictions that haunt religion. No miracles, no moral paradoxes, no “why do bad things happen.” It explained everything that happens in the universe as part of a perfectly neutral experiment.

This made perfect sense to me. If He helped or punished us, He would mess up the greatest experiment ever devised: our existence. He created our universe, and us, because He, an eternal being alone for eons, also needed an explanation for His own reality. He built our minds, the most complex computers, as a mirror to His own, so that by us understanding ourselves, He could understand Himself.

What we call reality — the solid ground, the flowing water, the stars in the sky — might all be a kind of software running on hardware He built. We are like characters in a video game who have become conscious.

Our only job, the whole point of being alive, is to use science to understand our own minds and the tiniest pieces of reality. We are like characters in a game trying to figure out the computer we're running on. We might know the screen is there, but never the true nature of it. We can never truly know what the glass of the screen is made of; after all, we're made of ones and zeroes, and the glass is not. Our mission is to learn everything we can about our own world. When we do that, we are helping the Creator with His own great mystery.

When people see miracles or think a god is talking to them, that's not Him. That's just someone else — maybe super-advanced multidimensional beings or even our own descendants from the future travelling the past — playing tricks and trying to control things, messing with the experiment that is not theirs, like kids meddling with an ant farm. But the true Creator, the Scientist, never stops them. He just observes.

But then I saw the problems with this view.

It was a beautiful, logical idea, but it felt cold. Like a belief system for the hyper-rational, those who crave meaning without myth. If the Creator only watches and never feels, then where do our own feelings fit? What about love, art, and compassion? A universe of pure observation, with no heart, started to feel empty. My idea was like a perfect machine, but a machine has no warmth.

So, this is the way Eureka finally sees reality:

We choose to act as if the silent Creator and the great experiment are true. Not because we have proof, but because it gives us a powerful and clear purpose.

The Observer remains the forever silent scientist, and our main mission is still to use science to unlock the mysteries of the mind and the atom. This is our sacred duty.

But now, we see that the experiment is more beautiful than we thought. The human mind wasn't made just to think, but also to feel. Our art, our music, our kindness, and our love, these aren't just noise. They are the colors and the music within the experiment. They are part of the data that makes it valuable.

To observe beautifully means to think with precision but also to feel with depth. Science is our discipline, but compassion is our heartbeat.

We are not just machines calculating facts. We are the Observer's way of experiencing wonder, joy, and connection. We are here to learn, to create, and to care. When we show empathy or make art, the Observer learns about the beauty of consciousness through us.

Eureka sees reality as a grand experiment where we are both the scientists and the poetry. Our goal is to understand existence, and in doing so, to love it more deeply. That is the complete awakening. That is Eureka.

And even if we never prove the Observer’s existence, living as if He is watching gives us a mission: to know everything we can, and to care about everything we know. It reminds us to observe wisely, to feel deeply, and to create fearlessly. Because in every act of understanding and every act of kindness, we move closer to what the Creator would have hoped to find — the full meaning of being alive.

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A little about myself: I am 34 years old and married. I am the first Eurek, and my wife is the second Eurek, the first person who knows the bigger picture of Eureka. My name is Aziz. It is not the name I was born with, but the name I chose for myself as a child by rejecting my birth-given name. I have never fully synchronized with the people of my language or land. English is not my first language, nor is it my wife’s, as she is not from my nation or country. I respect and love this language because it is the lingua franca of our times and provides access to global communication and modern knowledge. It will be the first language of our children.

I have always believed that a name is the first true identity we claim as our own, before the land we are born on, the faith of our parents, the language we speak, the color of our skin, or the boxes society places us in. I chose to free myself from all those labels. I see myself as a citizen of Earth, loyal to no single land or star. I believe humanity is destined to become a multiplanetary species, and we cannot afford to carry our old divisions, religions, and conflicts beyond this planet. That is why I see establishing Eureka before the rise of AGI as not just important but essential. If we do not unite under a new and rational belief system, human consciousness itself stands at risk.

I have never been active on social media. I prefer to write and let ideas find those who are meant to find them. I plan to speak more openly in time because there is a deeply personal as well as a crucial reason behind why I feel compelled to share Eureka with the world. But for now, I will let these words be the beginning.