Cosmologic philosophy: conscious universe (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, January 05, 2017, 00:59 (2661 days ago) @ David Turell

We are back again to John Wheeler and the delayed choice experiment which tells us human consciousness is necessary to understand quantum experimentation and leads to the proposition that the universe is conscious:

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/01/the-conscious-universe-a-radical-theory-th...

" Wheeler suggested that reality is created by observers and that: “no phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.” He coined the term “Participatory Anthropic Principle” (PAP) from the Greek “anthropos”, or human. He went further to suggest that “we are participants in bringing into being not only the near and here, but the far away and long ago.”

"This claim was considered rather outlandish until his thought experiment, known as the “delayed-choice experiment,” was tested in a laboratory in 1984. This experiment was a variation on the famous “double-slit experiment” in which the dual nature of light was exposed (depending on how the experiment was measured and observed, the light behaved like a particle (a photon) or like a wave).

"The results of this experiment, as well as another conducted in 2007, proved what Wheeler had always suspected – observers’ consciousness is required to bring the universe into existence. This means that a pre-life Earth would have existed in an undetermined state, and a pre-life universe could only exist retroactively. (my bold)

"Now it appears that Wheeler was a major influence on New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra who joined forces with physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions about human existence. What happens when modern science reaches a crucial turning point that challenges everything we know about reality? In the coming era, the universe will be completely redefined as a "human universe" radically unlike the cold, empty void where human life and our planet is a mere mote of dust in the cosmos.

"You Are the Universe literally means what it says--each of us is a co-creator of reality extending to the vastest reaches of time and space. This seemingly impossible proposition follows from the current state of science, where outside the public eye, some key mysteries cannot be solved, even though they are the very issues that define reality itself:

"What Came Before the Big Bang?
Why Does the Universe Fit Together So Perfectly?
Where Did Time Come From?
What Is the Universe Made Of?
Is the Quantum World Linked to Everyday Life?
Do We Live in a Conscious Universe?
How Did Life First Begin?"

Comment: the bolded paragraph does away with the philosophic question we had when this was discussed before. It proposes that the universe is in an anticipatory state until we arrive. Another part of the article discusses the brain as a receiver of consciousness from the quantum standpoint, not the NDE research. The whole article is fascinating.