The Next Leap in Evolution: Can Life Evolve to Travel Through Time

I had a dream last night that felt like a memory from my college days. It was a conversation with a friend about music, nothing special, just a typical chat after college. I remember my friend commenting on a song by Robbie Williams and how it made them feel like they were flying, not in a surreal way, but still like they were soaring.

In my dream, I remembered a conversation with a friend about music, which triggered some thoughts about the nature of reality. Memories are like points on a straight line, representing moments in time. But when time is viewed as a timeline, we can only move forward and cannot go back. This concept has always troubled me, as to why we are restricted to experience time in only one direction, determined by the second law of thermodynamics.

As humans, we live in a world that appears to have three dimensions - length, width, and height. Each point in space can be identified by its unique coordinates along these three axes. However, just because you are located at a particular point in space doesn't mean that other points or locations don't exist simultaneously. All points and locations exist simultaneously within the three-dimensional space. The concept of time can be thought of as an intersection or slice of the fourth dimension.

Essentially, we exist at a specific point in time and space, represented by coordinates in four dimensions (x, y, z, and t). In other words, at the intersection of that fifth dimension, or at that fifth-dimensional slice (a fifth dimensional equivalent of a time-slice or moment in a four-dimensional world), length, breadth, height, and time and all of their possible coordinates exist simultaneously. It simply means that like length, breadth, and height, time and the moments of it, past, present, and the future, all exist simultaneously. If only we could reach the level of unraveling the 5th dimensional plain, we would be able to see the entirety of time not as one-directional but just another form of spatial dimension. " rephrase the above quote in a lucid way

I believe that understanding the concept of unraveling the fifth dimension could have a significant impact on us. For example, when our aquatic ancestors moved to land, we used to think that the development of limbs and lungs was the main driver behind the transition. However, the Buena Vista Hypothesis suggests that it was the development of eyes, not limbs, that was the crucial factor. As life moved from the water to land, the size of eyes increased, enabling a larger peripheral view and the ability to see in more detail. This advantage allowed life to perceive the world around it in greater depth, and as a result, the visual cortex and other parts of the brain developed further. This development may have led to more complex planning and eventually to the evolution of consciousness.

What if there was a different evolutionary path for us, but this time it's not related to physical movement like from the ocean to the land? What if there's an "inside" world that we can explore, just like we explored the physical world? Carl Jung had an idea called the Collective Unconscious, and some people speculate that it may exist as a fifth dimension curled up like a string in the quantum level. If we can somehow unfurl this dimension through Natural or Artificial Selection, we may be able to experience a new reality where the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time become a continuum without any restriction of the direction of time.

What if the concept of causality, which philosopher Kant believed was a fundamental principle of the universe, is simply a framework that our current level of consciousness uses to make sense of the world, rather than an unbreakable law?