About me, Who is Mustafa Sönmez

Mustafa Sönmez: The Manifesto of A Mental Curation

You are at “A Mental Curation” by Mustafa Sönmez. Who is he, without dragging it out too long? I’ll get through the chatter and then provide more detail. I will specifically touch upon the logic of “curation.” Of course, my definitions of life and humanity will also be there. What would you do with a classic biography anyway! If I wrote about myself as if I were some famous public figure, you’d laugh at me—and I’d laugh at myself, too.

The content on this site is not the ordinary, cliché-ridden stuff everyone knows and follows; it will consist of recommendations that have passed through my curation for you. For this reason, you won’t find everything here; after all, I don’t have a massive database and server 🙂 Only the best are here.

Before starting the subject, you can access two poetry books as e-Pubs via Google Play Books. The language of the poems is Turkish, but I wanted to share them nonetheless.

About Me: Who is Mustafa Sönmez?

Let me remind you again: Mind the name similarity with the famous Mustafa Sönmez.

Under this heading and its subheadings, I will write more about my worldview than who I am. It doesn’t really matter who I am or who we are. Especially in the second half of the 21st century, we must proceed through information, not identities. We must change all the concepts and debates of the old world and the old human mind—their definitions of life, the universe, and the world. They do not belong to today; they cannot make us happy, and they cannot fulfill us psychologically.

In the age of Artificial Intelligence, our hopes and our reasons for existence have undergone a transformation. This was perhaps inevitable; in thousands of years, the thought process of today’s humans will become “trash”… Evolution is everywhere, not just in biology, but in culture, art, economy, social progress—in short, everywhere…

In the age of information and technology, the era of AI, we are trying to shape our lives, beliefs, and existence with the products of a human memory from centuries ago. This is precisely why we are in the midst of great conflicts. Yet, the future will be constructed only upon a new human mind supported by AI. Humanity will exist within a universal and increasingly immaterial construct. 👉 For details, you can look here.

My definition of life in brief: How Should We Live and Think?

A brief look at how I define myself. Perhaps these should be the mental characteristics of a human with a new memory and vision.

It is knowing, not believing, that makes life meaningful.
Viewing people as “other” and segregating them are decaying thoughts from centuries ago.
Fanatical thoughts are what distance us from a universal mind.
Being an honest, humane person is not a religious obligation; it is a duty, it is what ought to be.
Books are what carve new paths in our brains.
My mind is always calm; I do not dive into the gossipy, mind-corroding noise of deep overthinking. I only filter the impression.
As humans, we will transcend our biology and our memory…
Unless we become mental and universal beings, we will continue to burn in fights over the world’s temporary problems.
Instead of conflict, we must meet on a common ground: being “human.”
When we waste our energy on domination and battles over beliefs or lifestyles, we find ourselves in chaos.
To hell with a mindset where everyone judges and tries to align one another, where everyone sees themselves as right and damns the rest.
Humanity flourishes and our brains build new neural connections only where everyone lives freely—where differences, beliefs, and sexual identities are not debated. For our lives to change, our brains must change. New paths must open in our minds; our consciousness must establish deeper connections and reconstruct the world within the newly discovered neurochemical pathways of our existence, replacing the missing stones of life…
Everything is an impression. Our brain is like a theater stage. Our mind is the one that gives meaning, judges, and connects everything in a cause-and-effect relationship. Reality is a bundle of impressions projected outward from our minds…

The Colors of Music

Wouldn’t some music go well right now?

Music is perhaps the best thing humans ever invented to die in peace. We have moved so far away from music and refinement! Everyone has started trying to establish superiority over one another, seeing the other as an “other,” sticking their noses into someone else’s life, and seeing their own way of living as superior—even sacred.

Yet, reality is only a perception. Life is a game we have constructed. The human mind designs everything. We must first learn to listen to music so that we can learn to hear and listen to one another.

Our Endless Ambitions

In truth, life is merely a fabric of experiences. What we call the “self” is a simple actor within the ever-changing, evolving theater of the mind. We construct all our values. Life has no inherent meaning; we are the ones who breathe meaning into it. This is actually a gift: how we mold life is entirely in our hands. Our beliefs are no different; we live only within the reality of our habits and experiences.

Therefore, there is no single, all-encompassing reality. If you claim that your belief or way of life is the absolute truth, that is fanaticism. In that case, truths do not serve you; instead, you become a slave to your own dogmas under the guise of reality. Life is simply the totality of our interpreted prejudices and expectations. Everything, when stripped down, is a result of the neurochemical processes within our brains. Do not mistake this for a purely materialistic worldview. The more we evolve our minds, open new pathways in our brains, and expand our mental connections, the easier it will be to transcend the very boundaries of being human.

La Vida Es Sueño

La Vida Es Sueño (Life is a Dream) is a book by Calderón de la Barca. A beautiful play. It is fitting to share a short quote from this three-act masterpiece. We have forgotten how to “read” life, the universe, and the realities of others—and that is why we cannot change; we grow more fanatical and aggressive every day.

From Segismundo’s Monologue:

Segismundo:

He speaks the truth.
We must distance ourselves from this savage behavior,
from this relentless urge to dominate,
and let us drift back into dreams.
Since I have learned through trial and error
in this incomprehensible dream
that life itself is essentially a dream,
man has no other choice but to dream
of what he truly is, until the moment he wakes.

The king dreams that he is king;
he commands, he rules, he reigns.
But death shall soon cover his borrowed power
and authority with ashes!
Since we are to wake in the dream of death,
what is the point of craving to rule?

The rich man dreams of his wealth,
which brings him so much anxiety;
the poor man dreams of his poverty.
He who groans under oppression dreams,
and he who oppresses dreams as well;
everyone, without knowing, dreams of what they are in reality.

Just now, I dreamed that I was here,
bound in these very chains.
What is life? A fleeting illusion,
a shadow play, a deception;
even the most exalted thing has no value.
Because all life is a dream,
and dreams themselves are only dreams.

A Portrait from a Parallel Reality

Mustafa Sönmez: Turning a deaf ear to the noisy chaos of the frantic crowds; one who has adopted science and philosophy as his path, unbound by any constructed belief, marginalizing no one, and refusing to view people as an “other.” He remains distant from all forms of discrimination, conflict, and dogma, striving instead to live with lucid thought. Within his memory, there are no reckonings, no noise, and no invasive internal voices gnawing at the brain. He is one who does not mistake life’s impressions for the sole reality; a friend to the world and to life, yet a complete stranger to all rotten thoughts…

🇹🇷 👉 Original Manifesto: Access the original Turkish version and the core reflections of this text .

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