Your Own, Personal Random Input Module

Our goal, with this essay, is to explore a notion.

A notion that you can use to unlock an infinite wealth of new concepts, ideas, notions, paracosms; and so on and so forth, endlessly and infinitely; ad infinitum.

Every single facet of this notion is rooted in one of the following:

• Combination
• Synthesis
• Association
• Connection
• Perspective

You can embrace each one of these elements to command new, exciting ideas — among endless others — with ease.

And, with that in mind, let’s dive right into things!

On The Value Of Novelty

Our creativity is habitual.

Or, more specifically, when we come up with new ideas, they tend to follow the well-worn habits, paths, and contours of our interests, fascinations, and passions.

And, of course, our knowledge and experience; among other things.

Given this fact, it can be very difficult for us to come up with genuinely novel ideas, if we rely on what is well-worn.

On the other hand, though, if we purposefully seek to bring novelty into the creative process, through mechanisms and tools that force us to work with things we’ve never thought about before, then we transcend.

We transcend the well-worn habits, paths, and contours that we rely upon.

And, in transcending such things, we create new habits, paths, and contours that allow for a wealth of new concepts, ideas, notions, and paracosms — ad infinitum — to arise that, previously, we would never have been able to develop.

Given the notions outlined above, it is novelty that allows us to go beyond what we are, and what we are doing, so that we can truly experience the unending creative richness of our consciousness.

Our consciousness and, in turn, our universe.

The Doorway To Infinite Novelty

The title of this section is a little silly.

You see, there is not one, single doorway to infinite novelty.

Rather, there are an infinite number of doorways that can, and do, lead to infinite novelty.

Some of these doorways are as follows:

• Combination
• Association
• Connection

Every single one of these doorways leads to a vast, infinite labyrinth of corridors that each contain an infinite wealth of other, related, doorways.

Just as an example, “Association” leads to “Themes Of Association” and “Subjects Of Association” and “Adventures Related To Your Associations.”

And so on and so forth, endlessly and infinitely; ad infinitum.

Eventually, the metaphor starts to fall apart — every door leads to another infinite corridor with infinite doors and, well, what began as a metaphor turns into a complex, almost nonsensical, world — but, for now, it’s good enough.

Our goal, with this essay, is not to explore these doorways.

Rather, our goal is to explore a single doorway that, when opened, and explored, allows infinite novelty to arise.

To arise with remarkable ease.

You can refer to our doorway as a “Random Input Module.”

Or, “RIM,” for short.

And, really, you should refer to it as “RIMs,” given that there are an infinite number of them.

Your Own, Personal RIM

Just as the name suggests, a “Random Input Module” is a tool that you can use to give yourself a random input.

A random input that goes beyond your well-worn habits, paths, and contours.

You can use this random input to create novel ideas, concepts, notions, paracosms — ad infinitum — with remarkable ease.

And, given the nature of this random input, it is likely that what you create will be remarkably unique.

Your random input can be anything. And, for that matter, a RIM can be anything.

Just as an example, you can develop a module that contains twenty items, each of which refers to “Things you can find in a vast, fantastical ocean.”

Or, you can develop a module that contains 101 unique images of skyscrapers in Malaysia.

And, well, the possibilities and paths and potentials — ad infinitum — are infinite, endless, limitless; ad infinitum.

You can also use your RIMs in an infinite number of ways.

Even though the above is true, though, there are two ways that are, in my experience, better than others.

And, these two ways are as follows:

• Convert your RIM into a numbered list and use a random number generator to obtain a number.
• Just open your RIM to a random item and use that.

No matter what you do, you will find something that you can combine, associate, describe — and so on and so forth, endlessly and infinitely; ad infinitum — in such a manner that allows truly novel ideas to arise.

A Few Examples

Right before we go over the ways in which you can craft your own RIMs, we must share three examples.

Every single example comes with the RIMs that led to it, as well as the idea that it creates.

Our first example is an idea that came from the following two RIMs:

• People Who Inspire Me
• My Own, Personal Interests

You can find these RIMs right below:

People Who Inspire Me:

1. Jim Henson

2. Steve Jobs

3. Nikola Tesla

4. Albert Einstein

5. Tim Ferriss

6. Terrence Malick

7. Michael Mann

8. Tony Scott

9. Wily Walnut

10. Win Wenger

11. Wayne Dyer

12. George Lucas

13. Steven Spielberg

14. Elon Musk

15. Umberto Eco

16. Kevin Kelly

17. Neal Stephenson

18. Mitch Horowitz

19. David Lynch

20. Leonardo Da Vinci

21. Rob Brezsny

22. Ray Kurzweil

23. Richard Garriott

24. Indiana Jones

25. Lara Croft

26. Luke Skywalker

27. Neo

28. Dane McGowan

29. Superman

30. Batman

31. King Mob

32. Flex Mentallo

33. Bruce Lee

34. Philip K. Dick

35. Terence McKenna

36. Alan Watts

37. David Bohm

38. James Altucher

39. Jorge Luis Borges

40. Grant Morrison

41. Neville Goddard

42. Joseph Murphy

My Own, Personal Interests:

1. Gratitude
2. Writing
3. Literature
4. Metaphysics
5. Traveling
6. Nature
7. Journaling
8. The Law/Legal System
9. Magick
10. Cambodia
11. Malaysia
12. Creativity
13. Imagination
14. Libraries
15. Prayer
16. Film
17. Television
18. Visualization
19. Cinematography
20. Candy
21. LEGOs
22. Science
23. Urban Exploration
24. Art
25. Play
26. The Ocean
27. Music
28. Architecture

And, when we used a random number generator, we obtained the number “42” — “Joseph Murphy” — followed by “26,” which is “The Ocean.”

Just after a period of reflection, this leads to the idea of a vast, infinite ocean filled with infinitely divisible drops.

Every single drop contains a vast, perhaps infinite, quantity of thoughts that, when ingested, create new mental programs, assumptions, beliefs, and habits of thinking; and so on and so forth, endlessly and infinitely; ad infinitum.

A neverending source of transformation, growth, transcendence, creativity; and so on and so forth, endlessly and infinitely; ad infinitum.

And, well, you get the idea.

Our second idea is rooted within “Play,” from the “My Own, Personal Interests” RIM, and “Creativity,” from that same RIM, followed by “David Bohm” from our “People Who Inspire Me” RIM.

Just after a quick moment of reflection, the idea of our Universe existing as an infinite creative entity, whose role is to play and create systems — such as ourselves — that can play, in order to grow and evolve and eventually transcend its current sense of self and limitation.

Our third idea is rooted within “Prayer” and “Transcendence,” which is from another RIM that we will clarify at the end of this section.

Just after a brief moment of meditation, the notion of using prayer to transcend our limits and restrictions arises.

No, it’s not very unique. But, it can lead to a variety of other ideas.

Regarding the RIM in which “Transcendence” is from, you can find it right below:

1. Quantum Immortality

2. The Multiverse

3. Consciousness

4. The Imaginal

5. Dimensional Jumping

6. Information Theory

7. Hypersigils

8. Simulation Theory

9. Machine Intelligence

10. Dyson Spheres

11. Synthetic Biology

12. Transcendence

13. Parallel Timelines

14. Eternity

15. Alternative Lives

16. Infinity

17. Reincarnation

18. Googology

19. Nanotechnology

20. Paracosms

21. Shamanism

22. Hermeneutics

23. Language/Linguistics

24. Experimentation

25. Novelty

26. Dreaming/Lucid Dreaming

27. Computational Creativity

28. Ideas/Concepts

29. Computation/Computers

30. Inspiration

31. The Subconscious Mind

32. Building Blocks

33. Picotechnology/Infinite Depths

34. Combination

35. Description

36. Connection

37. Definition

38. Experience

39. Virtual Reality

40. Beauty/Richness

And, well, there are an infinitude of others you can create and, in doing so, play with.

Making Your Own RIM

You can create your own RIMs with remarkable ease.

All you must do is set a theme.

Or, for that matter, a topic, a focal point, a focus, a subject; and so on and so forth, endlessly and infinitely; ad infinitum.

Your theme can be anything.

Or, for that matter, your topic or focal point or focus or subject; ad infinitum.

Right after you select your theme, you must create a list.

A list of ten things that are related to your theme.

Or, perhaps, ten things that are similar to your theme, that can be associated with it, that support it; and so on and so forth, endlessly and infinitely; ad infinitum.

Right after you do so, you can then select one or two items and use those to inspire new ideas.

Or, alternatively, you can do the above, but set a theme, so that you can align these ideas with something special.

Outside of that, well, the possibilities, paths, and potentials — ad infinitum — available to you are truly infinite!

Conclusion

Right before we sign off, to those who read this essay — and, in turn, to those who did not — thank you so much!

My hope is that you can use the ideas in this essay to create, well, new ideas.

Regardless of that, though, thank you so much for reading this essay.

As always, if you wish to reach me, you can do so by emailing me at “maxwellcakin@gmail.com.”

Best wishes and have a truly lovely day!