Can science define itself? Can the human mind define itself? From what
point of view do we define our lives? How are we aware that we are tangible?
What is the source of our awareness of anything?
STARTS WITH A BANG — AUGUST 23, 2023
Is there a 5th fundamental force of nature?
When what we predict and what we measure don't add up,
that's a sign there's something new to learn.
Could it be a new fundamental force?
by
Ethan Siegel
'...The cognitive and perceptive characteristics of 70 cases of Near Death Experiences have been studied. The detailed analysis of the unusual modes and characteristics of spatial and temporal perception during these experiences reveals a "hidden" logic for which I propose a model where the point of perception would be in an extra dimension. The appropriateness of such a model is analyzed and shown to be consistent with the NDE accounts in the study. In contrast, those interpretations of such perceptions as being purely hallucina-tory are undermined. Whatever its meaning, the underlying logic shown in this study suggests that NDEs seem to follow precise rules. Since these experiences can be viewed as an unusual but consistent behavior of consciousness, they deserve further pluridisciplinary study...'
Jourdan, Jean-Pierre. (2011). Near Death Experiences and the 5th Dimensional Spatio-Temporal Perspective. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 14.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4522609/
Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics - Scientific American Blog Network
The multiverse may be an artifact of a deeper reality that is comprehensible and unique
By Heinrich Päs on
'...quantum monism has the potential to save the soul of science: the conviction that there is a unique, comprehensible and fundamental reality...'
'...According to quantum monism, the fundamental layer of reality is not made of particles or strings but the universe itself—understood not as the sum of things making it up but rather as a single, entangled quantum state...'
The Basis of the Universe May Not Be Energy or Matter but Information, Big Think. In this radical view, the universe is a giant supercomputer processing particles as bits.
https://quantumgravityresearch.org/videos
Can science define itself? Can the human mind define itself? From what point of view do we define our lives? How are we aware that we are tangible? What is the source of our awareness of anything?
My definition of science, This is Graviton Ring.
I wanted to say a little more about my definition of science.
Many of my professors at the many universities which I attended from 1956 to 1980 were great scientists. They lived in the century of science the 1900's, the age of Albert Einstein, Niles Bohr and countless geniuses whose legacy we have inherited.
I hope I can carry the same respect for scientific method, and the realization that reality is always different than the math, and math is always different from reality. Reality and math both have elements that are real and unreal. An unreal element in science today might be a string of energy, a quark, or whatever happens to be defined as the current building block of information, matter or energy.
One mystery, from my point of view, is that many people who claim to be an authority on science have a more obsessive set of ideas than many fundamentalist religionists.
Dogma simply does not exist in my idea of reality or science. There is nothing absolutely true nor absolutely perfect. These are concepts that I think we humans use to prevent having to say that we just do not know why. Why anything exists at all or why anything happens the way it happens. We just do not know the cause of existence.
Of course my opinion is that there is no cause because everything has existed forever and will continue to exist forever. Stuff simply changes its form from time to time. This is obvious to me. There is nothing that I have ever experienced which could prove that any preconceived dogma exists, whether it is called science, religion or whatever.
There seems to be only one predictable aspect of life. Everything in the physical reality changes. Whether these changes are called scientific evolution, biblical prophecy or simply historical development, the facts seem to be obvious. Change happens everywhere, to everything.
What stays the same, in my opinion, is the awareness that we all have of an infinite universe, and the awareness of every detail within that universe.
There is such a bias in western culture to either-or thinking that we seem to be unable to understand that both infinitely large and infinitely small aspects of life can be contemplated and taken care of at the same time.
Science and religion are not really different in that aspect. Both of these ways of thinking often include infinitely large and infinitely small ideas. No particular way of thinking has a complete and final proof of anything, in my opinion.
There are always unanswered questions within any discipline.
This is why I admire Michel Martin, and her idea that the enemy of faith is not doubt, but the enemy of faith is certainty. The fact is we do not know the cause of existence, nor do we know what will happen in the next nanosecond. Hopefully we have faith in wellness. Wellness, in my opinion, is a spiritual aspect of life.
Our awareness of existence is the same as our spiritual existence. There are no mysteries to spiritual awareness. It simply is what it seems to be, the understanding that an infinite universe exists. We are that universe in every aspect of it and in every aspect of ourselves. As Alan Watts said, we cannot separate ourselves from it in any way.
Where else would we go?
We are woven into the tangible and intangible reality. Our thoughts may be free, however, I think we are physically anchored in some ways. The physical aspects of life simply allow us to focus on the local experiences of everyday life. There is no reason to ignore the infinite universe in order to pay attention to everyday life, nor any reason to ignore everyday life to pay attention to the infinite universe. They are woven together as well.
As humans, or whatever you believe yourself to be, a spiritual entity or a soul created by your particular idea of a creator god, we are integrated into the entire experience of infinite mind. I have no idea with the infinite mind is exactly. The experience and knowledge that we all gather and share from our everyday life might be our infinite mind.
Many of my professors experienced and shared firsthand knowledge about their lives. One particular adventure which one of my professors saw in East Africa was a swarm of locusts, one mile wide, one half mile high at the center, and tapering off for about three or four miles in length. The swarm was moving through the Rift Valley. My professor remarked that there was nothing left in the trail of the swarm except tiny grains of sand.
All the math and science in the world could not count the number of locusts in that swarm nor the number of grains of sand in the desert. Reality cannot be measured with absolute perfection in math, science nor with any perfect answers.
Science is a template which can be used to estimate reality, however, in my opinion, reality never repeats itself nor pauses for anything. This idea is simply my own observation. Reality happens right here, right now. Science, religion or any set of knowledge is about past events, which do not even exist anymore. The past is a fantasy and an illusion, which I think allows us humans to feel some comfort and connection to each other and to the whole reality.
I'm not saying that fantasy and illusion are evil or even useless. On the contrary I believe that fantasy and illusion are simply ways that we entertain ourselves. I am a Star Trek fan and a Gene Roddenberry want-to-be. My movie script is pure fantasy, an idea that I have had for a long time, that we are stuck in our physical existence.
Our spiritual experiences are integrated into our physical existence. However, for some reason we seem to think that we can only experience one or the other at different times.
I think we experience both our spiritual and physical existence at the same time, all the time.
Andrei Linde on the Big Bang and the biggest discovery of all time Quote One of the biggest theoretical advances during this difficult period was Linde’s work on the multiverse.. Unquote
'... quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the first experiment that proves it. Article by Emerging Technology from the arXiv, March 12, 2019
In my opinion, human experience is a result of the so-called big bang event. This idea of mine is a stand-alone description of how photons affect humans. By stand-alone, I mean that I make this statement only about what it contains.
For example, I am saying that human experience is limited to it's physicality. There are an infinite set of implications that one may make about physicality. Physicality may include many observable aspects other than a human experience.
For this topic, I am expressing my opinion that human experience is time-bound. Specifically, I am talking about my past 25 years of reviewing near-death events.
An event in my life illustrated to me that time may pass very slowly for humans. Photons at the speed of light may have little or nothing to do with time passing.
Near-death events may be the awareness and experience of moving at light speed.
My idea about awareness is that it is eternal, infinite and always intangible. I am speaking here only about my own experience and my own definition of life. I believe that my awareness has no speed limit and is not in any way physical. I believe that my awareness exists for the act of observing any physicality.
My awareness is an intangible HOW which exists for the purpose of observations. Observations, in my opinion, are of any physical aspect of life, human or not.
It is undeniable that I exist, I have an identity, and I am aware of reality. There is nothing that is self-evident, everything must be tested by reality. Obviously, my idea of reality differs from any other, and must be tested too.
We all drink from the same fountain of wisdom. I am Graviton Ring.
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Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics - Scientific American Blog Network
The multiverse may be an artifact of a deeper reality that is comprehensible and unique
By Heinrich Päs on
'...quantum monism has the potential to save the soul of science: the conviction that there is a unique, comprehensible and fundamental reality...'
'...According to quantum monism, the fundamental layer of reality is not made of particles or strings but the universe itself—understood not as the sum of things making it up but rather as a single, entangled quantum state...'
The Basis of the Universe May Not Be Energy or Matter but Information, Big Think. In this radical view, the universe is a giant supercomputer processing particles as bits.
https://quantumgravityresearch.org/videos
The Quantum World May Have a Favorite Flavor, Tantalizing Results Suggest
https://www.livescience.com/quantum-world-flavor-anomalies.htmlCan science define itself? Can the human mind define itself? From what point of view do we define our lives? How are we aware that we are tangible? What is the source of our awareness of anything?
My definition of science, This is Graviton Ring.
I wanted to say a little more about my definition of science.
Many of my professors at the many universities which I attended from 1956 to 1980 were great scientists. They lived in the century of science the 1900's, the age of Albert Einstein, Niles Bohr and countless geniuses whose legacy we have inherited.
I hope I can carry the same respect for scientific method, and the realization that reality is always different than the math, and math is always different from reality. Reality and math both have elements that are real and unreal. An unreal element in science today might be a string of energy, a quark, or whatever happens to be defined as the current building block of information, matter or energy.
One mystery, from my point of view, is that many people who claim to be an authority on science have a more obsessive set of ideas than many fundamentalist religionists.
Dogma simply does not exist in my idea of reality or science. There is nothing absolutely true nor absolutely perfect. These are concepts that I think we humans use to prevent having to say that we just do not know why. Why anything exists at all or why anything happens the way it happens. We just do not know the cause of existence.
Of course my opinion is that there is no cause because everything has existed forever and will continue to exist forever. Stuff simply changes its form from time to time. This is obvious to me. There is nothing that I have ever experienced which could prove that any preconceived dogma exists, whether it is called science, religion or whatever.
There seems to be only one predictable aspect of life. Everything in the physical reality changes. Whether these changes are called scientific evolution, biblical prophecy or simply historical development, the facts seem to be obvious. Change happens everywhere, to everything.
What stays the same, in my opinion, is the awareness that we all have of an infinite universe, and the awareness of every detail within that universe.
There is such a bias in western culture to either-or thinking that we seem to be unable to understand that both infinitely large and infinitely small aspects of life can be contemplated and taken care of at the same time.
Science and religion are not really different in that aspect. Both of these ways of thinking often include infinitely large and infinitely small ideas. No particular way of thinking has a complete and final proof of anything, in my opinion.
There are always unanswered questions within any discipline.
This is why I admire Michel Martin, and her idea that the enemy of faith is not doubt, but the enemy of faith is certainty. The fact is we do not know the cause of existence, nor do we know what will happen in the next nanosecond. Hopefully we have faith in wellness. Wellness, in my opinion, is a spiritual aspect of life.
Our awareness of existence is the same as our spiritual existence. There are no mysteries to spiritual awareness. It simply is what it seems to be, the understanding that an infinite universe exists. We are that universe in every aspect of it and in every aspect of ourselves. As Alan Watts said, we cannot separate ourselves from it in any way.
Where else would we go?
Alan Watts: What is the self?
Self defined not as individual ego, but the whole universe. MIKE COLAGROSSI, 04 April, 2019We are woven into the tangible and intangible reality. Our thoughts may be free, however, I think we are physically anchored in some ways. The physical aspects of life simply allow us to focus on the local experiences of everyday life. There is no reason to ignore the infinite universe in order to pay attention to everyday life, nor any reason to ignore everyday life to pay attention to the infinite universe. They are woven together as well.
As humans, or whatever you believe yourself to be, a spiritual entity or a soul created by your particular idea of a creator god, we are integrated into the entire experience of infinite mind. I have no idea with the infinite mind is exactly. The experience and knowledge that we all gather and share from our everyday life might be our infinite mind.
Many of my professors experienced and shared firsthand knowledge about their lives. One particular adventure which one of my professors saw in East Africa was a swarm of locusts, one mile wide, one half mile high at the center, and tapering off for about three or four miles in length. The swarm was moving through the Rift Valley. My professor remarked that there was nothing left in the trail of the swarm except tiny grains of sand.
All the math and science in the world could not count the number of locusts in that swarm nor the number of grains of sand in the desert. Reality cannot be measured with absolute perfection in math, science nor with any perfect answers.
Science is a template which can be used to estimate reality, however, in my opinion, reality never repeats itself nor pauses for anything. This idea is simply my own observation. Reality happens right here, right now. Science, religion or any set of knowledge is about past events, which do not even exist anymore. The past is a fantasy and an illusion, which I think allows us humans to feel some comfort and connection to each other and to the whole reality.
I'm not saying that fantasy and illusion are evil or even useless. On the contrary I believe that fantasy and illusion are simply ways that we entertain ourselves. I am a Star Trek fan and a Gene Roddenberry want-to-be. My movie script is pure fantasy, an idea that I have had for a long time, that we are stuck in our physical existence.
Our spiritual experiences are integrated into our physical existence. However, for some reason we seem to think that we can only experience one or the other at different times.
I think we experience both our spiritual and physical existence at the same time, all the time.
Andrei Linde on the Big Bang and the biggest discovery of all time Quote One of the biggest theoretical advances during this difficult period was Linde’s work on the multiverse.. Unquote
'... quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the first experiment that proves it. Article by Emerging Technology from the arXiv, March 12, 2019
In my opinion, human experience is a result of the so-called big bang event. This idea of mine is a stand-alone description of how photons affect humans. By stand-alone, I mean that I make this statement only about what it contains.
For example, I am saying that human experience is limited to it's physicality. There are an infinite set of implications that one may make about physicality. Physicality may include many observable aspects other than a human experience.
For this topic, I am expressing my opinion that human experience is time-bound. Specifically, I am talking about my past 25 years of reviewing near-death events.
An event in my life illustrated to me that time may pass very slowly for humans. Photons at the speed of light may have little or nothing to do with time passing.
Near-death events may be the awareness and experience of moving at light speed.
My idea about awareness is that it is eternal, infinite and always intangible. I am speaking here only about my own experience and my own definition of life. I believe that my awareness has no speed limit and is not in any way physical. I believe that my awareness exists for the act of observing any physicality.
My awareness is an intangible HOW which exists for the purpose of observations. Observations, in my opinion, are of any physical aspect of life, human or not.
It is undeniable that I exist, I have an identity, and I am aware of reality. There is nothing that is self-evident, everything must be tested by reality. Obviously, my idea of reality differs from any other, and must be tested too.
We all drink from the same fountain of wisdom. I am Graviton Ring.