Well, it’s spring, so let’s get really wild about the ultimate reality. Mkirkpatrick will love this, for it says that the observer creates EVERYTHING.
In the American Scholar article "A New Theory of the Universe", Dr. Robert Lanza tells physicists they've been barking up the wrong tree. Lanza is a leading expert in tissue engineering, cloning and stem cell research. He is not a physicist and so is likely to be ignored by the physics community. Yet, he may be on to something.
"The urgent and primary questions of the universe have been undertaken by those physicists who are trying to explain the origins of everything with grand unified theories. But as exciting and glamorous as these theories are, they are an evasion, if not a reversal, of the central mystery of knowledge: that the laws of the world were somehow created to produce the observer. And more important than this, that the observer in a significant sense creates reality and not the other way around. Recognition of this insight leads to a single theory that unifies our understanding of the world.
...As unimaginable as it may seem to us, the logic of quantum physics is inescapable. Every morning we open our front door to bring in the paper or to go to work. We open the door to rain, snow, or trees swaying in the breeze. We think the world churns along whether we happen to open the door or not. Quantum mechanics tells us it doesn’t.
The trees and snow evaporate when we’re sleeping. The kitchen disappears when we’re in the bathroom. When you turn from one room to the next, when your finite senses no longer perceive or interpret the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting—the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness—or into waves of probability. The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence."
The complete article can be found at
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/sp...ory-lanza.html
I guess that he says our reality dissolves and reforms in a constant dance that, like moving pictures, cannot be perceived in our mind’s eye.
Lanza’s biological organisms might have to be exempt from going away and not churning when we are not aware or perhaps they stay around by virtue of the organism having consciousness.
If the world rebuilds itself when we look again and appears as if it has proceeded and churned away, as like skipping ahead on a DVD, that’s fine, but I still like to think that interference patterns are out there all along or at least are maintained somehow.
If we can trust our senses, it does seem that subatomic particles pop in and out of our world, because, well, maybe that’s all they can do. Perhaps a moving photon does the same, disappearing and then reappearing a bit further along, but I’m not sure about Lanza yet.
As for movement and growth while we are looking, i suppose it could be like the still frames that make a movie film, but he doesn’t elaborate.
I can think of 3 ways that the brain or consciousness can actually produce “reality”:
1. Night dreams. Unless lucid, we feel that this virtual reality is totally real. While some dreams present a stable reality, many others don’t, with the backgrounds changing and us living in another house and so forth, but what can we expect when the mind is partly asleep and not all there.
2. Schizophrenia. Visions present a virtual reality. I don’t know much about this but I wonder if they bump into furniture and so forth that are in the agreed on reality or if theirs is the only reality to them. My take is that they are dreaming while awake or that their imaginings or subconscious thoughts take on a life of their own.
3. Hallucinations: They can come from drugs and also from who knows where. Normal people have them just before sleep but are aware that they are experiencing an illusion.
As for our agreed on reality, if it’s really generated by the brain and consciousness or both, wouldn’t we all have to be connected somehow as in a group consciousness?
I also like the idea that when we take a snapshot of a photon that it is like a single frame of a movie and so we cannot know its momentum.
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