I read a book called Equations of Eternity by David Darling and wonder what scientific basis there is for human consciousness actually creating the reality in which we exist.
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Metaphysics is not really physics at all in my opinion.  I think it is a branch of philosophy that is touted by those who lack an understanding of science and want to ascribe a greater meaning to the world, to feel like they are more important in "reality" than we are.
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is this real?\n\nIS THIS THE WAY LIFE IS SUPPOSED TO BE?\n\nthe only hope for the future of mankind is the possibility that someone will be able to realise that the world they were experiencing was  not   the true reality.
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>>>>Do you think the human brain work from a sort of binary code?\n\nDepends what you mean by binary. The individuals neurons themselves are binary, but the connections work on a kind fuzzy logic. So no, the brain isn’t strictly binary \n\n>>>>> If so, do you think it will be possible to someday \n>>>>> take a snapshot of it, make some sort of ISO file of\n>>>>> it to achieve a sort of "virtual immortality"?\n\nIt is possible that one day we will al grow wings and fly up into the heavens. But in terms of modern technology no, it’s not even theoretically possible.\n\nEven if we could store the information pattern of the brain at one point in time that would achieve nothing. Immortality requires that the personality and memories be duplicated.  Those things are dynamic processes, not a static information store. A stored brain would no more be you than a dead boy is you.
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nothing exsits if there is nothing there to see/hear/feel it.  Everything that is reality and what we think is real, is just a representation of what information from our senses, our brain processes them into being.  There is no real reality its just our own reality in our heads that we think is real.
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Buddy, your query holds weight in all of its concern, yet to monotonous these days to my knowledge. Since I have soothed such a query in past, I am withdrawn to another fabrication. Yet my previous answers weaved in a way can subside your curiosity as well. Consume a chunk of your time reading it. It may also answer your other questions: -\n\nThe concept holds itself in such an abstruse enigma, that centuries have failed to decipher its existence in a logical form. Scores of fiction writers have sculpted sci-fi books upon the behavior of time. We all have speculated over the so-called ‘Time Travel’ and have rummaged over the numerous possibilities that it may offer.\n\nFor the sweet sake of knowledge, once in a while, just sit down and think over the existence of time. When one questions ‘What is life?’ one is indirectly doubting his flow in time. Sometimes, time bears mercy upon you and hastens up, yet at other times, bestows upon you the curse of its viscous flow.\n\nYet, in reality what WE call time, is nothing but a theoretical fabrication that we, humans have crafted so as to better understand this “Fourth Dimension”. We assume we recognize time and its workings, yet mark my letters, we know absolutely N-O-T-H-I-N-G. We mortals imprint everything that we perceive in our brain, and then we analyze over it, yet never in its crude form. We find ourselves confined to the rigid boundaries of our senses. We bear to our knowledge the sphere of our vision and touch.\n\nThe notion bears itself in utmost simplicity. We can only conclude on matters we are able perceive in a correct mannerism. We do not bear such a sense organ nor are we able to implement over 4% of our brain, so as to perceive the concept of time in a proper ideology. Therefore we cannot chisel a concept concrete enough to bear the yoke of our questions.\n\nWe foolish mortals don’t even have the ability to measure time in its proper state. The state of time is always subjected to our memory, thoughts, personality, the circumstances, and innumerable other factors. You can’t even correspond two events in the same mannerism! Fragments from your memory are always erased, resulting to the unjustifiable way in which we perceive time.\n\nYet we can ALWAYS speculate! And we HAVE speculated! In such speculations, we have come to many ways to understand time. Scientists were entangled in similar doubts, yet they fashioned a theory that best satisfied the debatable world of ‘Philosophical Physics’. The theory states that time is completely relative to the individual who experiences it and furthermore a relationship exists between the three basic dimensions of space and time, leading to the birth of the space-time ideology. (I swear they stole the idea from me!)\n\nAnother speculation (Fasten your seatbelts for a Psycho Ride!). Suppose time is a fabric. (A complete supposition) A vast expanse of infinite non-molecular material. This fabric is existent yet not perceivable by our limited senses. If we are to possess a way to make a ‘cut’ in this fabric, we CAN gain access to two different periods in time. But then again, that is theoretical, and humanly impossible. \n\nSo far we have considered time to be a concept in whose relation we all exist. But in technical truth, time is relative to every individual! What we consider time is the manufacture of us mortals. What if time exists independently for everyone? When one perishes, he actually repeats his so called 'life'. Perhaps the period from the Big Bang to the collapse of the universe has repeated itself millions of times already! There is no telling, for there is no concrete platform, to which we can relate existence. We just have to relate everything to everything else!\n\nNow those are speculations. No one can state them correct or incorrect, for one does not bear a perception that great. Perhaps we are just the play-stuff of a superior colossal existence. Then again, what is existence?
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Yes I believe in reincarnation and another plane of existence. I have had an NDE and it opened my eyes to what is going on out there.
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I think Saul of Tarsus was correct when he poetically observed that "we see through a glass, darkly". Our perceptions are a single mode of reality, but there are other modes that we cannot percieve directly, such as the world of the very small and the world of the very large. We must use the scientific method and instruments to enable us to indirectly extend our ability and percieve the things that we can't otherwise observe, but that do have a bearing on our lives nonetheless.\n\nI find it very interesting that the world of human perception is in the middle of the world of things, including size, velocity, temperature, and light, among other possible characteristics of the universe. The extremes extend to both sides of our perceptual abilities, both above and below. I think this is philosophically significant, but I have yet to ascertain exactly what that significance is.
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You make some good points. I think it is like circular creationism. Humans create god and in return god creates humans. Simple. Reality creates fiction and in return fiction creates reality. Just look at how many religions there are in the world. Why? Because every culture imagines god(s) differently.
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Okay, so you know how quantum physics shows us that all points in space, all bits of matter are at any moment both a particle and a wave.  And Einstein's special theory of relativity shows us that all light is made of waves.  And these two theories combine in interesting ways, but don't completely gel.  For decades physicists have been struggling to reconcile the two theories, but they have been unable to do so effectively.  Something was always holding them back, basically because the universe seems to be holding more energy than there is space in the points of known mass.  This made scientists wonder where all the energy was.  And then they discovered, that the space in between the atoms was itself teeming with life.  And the life that lives at the bottom of all matter, inside the shell of the tiniest waves of photons, or quanta, is a strange world of simultaneously vibrating strings.  And those strings of multi-demensional vibrating pulsating energy play in a kind of metaphysical choir, creating all the intricacies of mass and energy in the universe, as if these tiny little strings were conductors conducting a vast symphony, only they were conducting that symphony with the conductors of all the other symphonies of the atoms they were orchestrating with.  And those collections of atoms and molecules and other interesting bits were actually being played by an army of conductors conducting simultaneously with an entire legion of instruments singing and strumming away.\n\nString theory is mind-bogglingly wild, because it's so advanced.  It took PBS three hours to explain it completely, and I was still lost.  Only when I completed the book about the show's research did I have a deeper grasp of it.  Basically you just need to know that these little strings that vibrate in 6, up to 10 dimensions (depending on whose theory applies to that particular "particle" - I told you, it's mind-blowing)  and how they vibrate impacts what manifests on the level of perceptible reality.\n\nWhat's so incredible about this is that science is finally catching up to philosophy.  The Middle Way, or what Huxley called the Perennial Philosophy, has always told us that the perception of life is merely the perception of imperceptible changes on a fundamental and/or spiritual nature, and the manifestation of those changes in the world that we see around us.  In many traditional cultures, those changes are manipulated by otherworldy figures, gods, angels and the like, which is outside the scope of scientists to discern, but in today's physics, the wall between the reality we see and the reality that is real is paper-thin.  Scientists are beginning to discover that everything truly is everything, and once they can prove it, life can get a whole lot more sane, because folks will have realized that what we are today is what we were twenty thousand years ago, we are one indescribable circle trailing itslef through time, perhaps even creating subtle vibrations that resonate with other vibrating universes that themselves are creating a reality in a world far, far different than this one, beyond all perceptible consciousness.  Perhaps, there may even be a heaven, in which all this is taking place and yet life is going on and on and on, without fear or violence or pain.\n\nEnjoy your continuing discovery of the details behind string theory.  It truly is a fascinating subject.
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Hello there. Funny you mention this because, as a boy, the first truly inspiring text I read was the Tao Te Ching. I still find myself reading it, at least in part, once a week. This text is so simple yet profound it put me on a path to seek out even more esoteric knowledge. I have also studied the writings of Confucius, the Vedic texts  of India, Buddhism,  Zen, Shinto, Suffic Islam, etc. All in all, the Tao really opened my eyes to a deeper understanding of things. I can read about Quantum Mechanics and sub-atomic physics and find the spiritual parallels within the science. I wish more westerners could be exposed to this. My email is viewable in profile.
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you say you want clean science? How about math instead - here's a simple equation:\n\n0 x 0 = 0\n\nnothing creates nothing. So very simple but so many people love to complicate it.\n\nthere is another question that I believe supersedes yours, and that is: what or who designed the laws of physics and rules that govern matter, time and space? I say "who" because it is so obvious to me. It takes more faith to believe in all this coming from nothing than it takes to believe that there is a creator. Call the creator whatever you like, but from what we see and experience, and just the fact that we are conscious, it tells us that there is a very, VERY intelligent source behind all this. (whether or not you are pleased with life and the chaos within is immaterial)\n\nso, to answer your question, the cosmic egg if that's what it was, along with all the laws of physics, were designed by the creator.\n\nso what designed the creator? In order for the creator to have set time/space/matter in motion, it/he/she would have had to be outside our known dimension. The easiest way to describe this is like you or I putting in a movie to watch. The characters inside the movie are bound by the medium that they are recorded in, and we, the viewers are outside of it. Just as we are not bound to the VHS or DVD, nor is the creator bound to our universe/time. Perhaps the creator has several universes/movies in play. Who knows. We can't possibly comprehend the realm outside of time, nor can science prove anything outside the medium we are bound to. The only thing that science CAN prove is that our universe did somehow have a beginning. To try and theorize where the creator came from or even IF the creator had a beginning would be as foolish as a two-dimensional stick-man trying to imagine our 4-D or 5-D world.\n\nI grovel
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Ah, the wonders of proving reality to a disbeliever!\nFirst, I want you to visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_special_relativity , and try to teach yourself whatever they're talking about, okay? \nNext, I know this is unprovable, but I have my own distinct thoughts and imaginations and feelings and beliefs, and if nothing else, can assure you that I am, in fact, quite real.\nFind that page yet? Good. Do you understand the math? If so, kudos, go on to the main Special Relativity or General Relativity pages. If not, do you see where I'm heading with this?\nThis world we live in, grass and garbage and math and all, is much too complex for you to dream! The human mind is capable of miraculous things - but it can hardly invent hundreds of thousands of sciences and religions and people, and keep them all straight, and create histories and backgrounds and politics for each.
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Inferred reality I would say is a term for another persons perspective. I really doubt that you could actually test such a thing because you would have to have a standard to test by, therefore in the case of reality everybody will have thier own definition of what it is. The question of why reality exists is sometimes taken to be unanswerable or meaningless: reality "just exists", it is held, and no further explanation can be given. Alternatively, it is sometimes held that reality exists because it was created by something outside of it. Were reality to lack an explanation, it would be acausal and could not sustain itself, whereas were something outside of reality to have created it, it would be relevant to reality and therefore inside reality by definition.
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Time is a Human perception.  It it based upon cycles.\n" How long " is not the question when asking about Heaven.\nDid ya'll like " Pre infinity" ?
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This is not so hard to think about, but it's kinda hard to answer.  I'm talking here about the Unknown with a capital letter which can also refer to God, any god of any religion, or just what we humans don't know about the universe.  I have figured this one thing out, at least, for my own life.  It seems there are only three things we do in life.  At least, after 57 years of my existence, it seems like that.  We are born, we learn, and we die.  I am doing the first two, and have yet to experience the last one.  \n\nNow, let's think about the order of those things.  Can we change the order, or do they come in this order only, and then notice the word "order".  What about chaos?  Isn't that part of nature too, or is order out of order?  Yeah, the chaos may be the context within which I must learn.  Every time I run into a contradiction to the truth/s I have been believing, I must change my thinking about the nature and the substance of T/truth/s I encounter in their contradiction of one another.  But, think about this:  I am experiencing This/these T/truth/s while I am experiencing this chaos, so where's the order that the t/truth/s is/are supposed to bring out of chaos?  Then, again, maybe we don't experience all this at the same time?  Uh oh!?  The word "time"; I forgot about time.  Can we actually do things, experience things as the same time, change the order of things?  Can I actually walk and chew gum at the same time?  Or, must I take a step and chew- take a step and chew. . . -take a step and . . . .  hummm!? maybe there is no such thing as simultaneity?  because there is no such thing as time, except as time, it is the same thing as the space we take up thinking about it.  This really is the kicker, it seems to me:  Quantum physicists and the new physics tell/s us that time and space are the same thing, if I am not mistaken, and that we should really only be thinking about probabilities instead of T/truth.  What I'm saying here is that there is no such thing as Truth in our reality, on our planet, in this galaxy, in this universe, according to everything we humans know about it.  There may be some probability that there is/are T/truth/s beyond our reality, etcetera., which, upon my death, I may experience, but maybe not.?!  Perhaps that brings us to the question of order again.  Are we here to create order or to experience it through chaos by learning the difference between them?  Then there is the issue of why not chaos.  The implication is that order is better than chaos, or that there is some preference I should have, one over the other.  But, it seems to me that both are needed as functions of the other (at the least), or as functions of the learning process itself, which, remember, is the middle and biggest (in terms of which one of which we do the most.) of the three things we do in life.  Each of the three things we do in life is equally important b/c we can't have one without the others, just like chaos and order (can't have one without the other).  I feel like I'm chasing my tail here.\n\nHmmm.  Maybe we are here existing on this planet, in this galaxy, in this universe because we continue to exist (your words, your ideas).  Or, maybe we're doing all these things you say we are doing because we are learning to think about them while we won't know the reason for it until we take the final of the three steps.  We are just compelled by the Unknown to do it on f/Faith.  \n\nThe multiverses/Existence/Reality is such an interesting phenomenon, isn't it!\n\nThanks for the opportunity to ponder on it.\n\nutopianwizard
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Well, from wich perspective do you look at it? In my opinion, physical reality incarnations are done for the purpouse of spiritual growth..."body is a car, soul is a driver, YOU". Aside from that, I believe all is devine, in other words, all is god, source, as some say it. I also believe that each seek's to reunite with source... :) Take Care, Love and Light
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Every Human Being wants to know and understand the Philosophy behind the meaning of Life! Why are we here... what is the purpose of our living on Mother Earth... what is the real meaning of Life? The queries are numerous... there has got to be a justification for our living. What is the basis of existence of Life on planet Earth?\n\n\nBefore we indulge into knowing "the meaning of Life" we need to understand Life itself. How do we differentiate between a mortal (living being) and an immobile material (having no Life within)? For this we need to start from the beginning of the Cosmos itself... The time of the big bang!\n\nAt the time of the big bang when God, the Almighty Creator which is but the size of half a thumb explodes itself... all Atmans (Souls) get scattered all over the cosmos and in doing this they lose their pristine purity and as a ball coated with honey gathers dust while rolling... these Atmans (Souls) also get impregnated with impurities. This is the fundamental cause of Life... if these Atmans (Souls) had remained pure all the time... the need for Life in whole of the cosmos would not have arisen.\n\n\nThese Atmans (Souls) in their cosmic journey now need a body so that they can purify themselves and come back to their original pristine form. These Atmans (Souls) do not have the power to purify themselves without the aid of any external body. They need a body to work out its Karma and in the process the dross within the Atman soul shall get removed. \n\nLet me explain this further but before that I need to explain the definition of God.\n\n\nAt the time of pralaya as we call it in Hinduism (the time of complete dissolution of the cosmos)... the total cosmos which consists of many universes dissolves back into its original pristine form... this is the form we know as God, the Almighty Creator! The size of the whole cosmos at this moment of time is half the size of a thumb, which is nothing else, but the collection of all purified Atmans (Souls) in the cosmos.\n\nFor purifying themselves why do the Atmans (Souls) need a body? This feature can be explained further by the example of mining. More here- http://www.godrealized.org/what_is_the_meaning_of_life.html