Zero Point Field (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by dhw, Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 12:19 (4301 days ago) @ BBella

BBELLA: I had no idea what heading to put this under but chose 'The Nature Of a Creator' because that is what it really is all about in the long run isn't it? I've just been reading about the Zero Point Field recently, there's a lot of sites connecting the Zero Point Field with God, consciousness, the Hall of Records (Akashic Records), Quantum Entanglement, etc. Maybe science is catching up with metaphyics, the foundation of many religions, may even the afterlife, etc? It can be the answer to many unanswered questions - maybe. Here are a few links but they are a mere smidgen.
 
http://odewire.com/48044/the-amazing-promises-of-the-zero-point-field.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-baksa/zero-point-field_b_913831.html-A discussion:-http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/philosophy-spirituality/14214-panpsychism.html-This article requires some serious time reading as it tries to tie up many ideas to the one zero point field.
 
http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_akashic1.htm-I haven't had time to peruse all of these, and I'm not sure that the concept is necessarily linked to a Creator as such (i.e. a single, self-aware, purpose-led being). It's interesting that the third item is about panpsychism (which need not be theistic either), and one can certainly see the connection. The first of the websites details a number of very interesting experiments demonstrating links between mind and matter, as well as between mind and mind, and it stands to reason that if there is universal energy with degrees of what I prefer to call "intelligence", all kinds of connections should be possible, at least theoretically. In the discussion, though, it says: "Panpsychism declares that the entire universe from the most distant galaxy all the way down to the smallest particle or wave is entirely sentient or conscious." This is horribly misleading, as it suggests that all matter is as conscious and sentient as humans. That is NOT what is suggested (let alone declared) by the panpsychist variants I've read about.
 
As you say, BBella, there are all kinds of ideas linked together here, just as there are in the many different versions of panpsychism, but I'd need to study both theories more closely to find out how they differ. A.N. Whitehead was a panexperientalist (a variant of panpsychism) and a leading light in process theology, who believed that everything was "a field spread out temporally and spatially; every object, from a human body to an electron, is composed of events or processes" and according to his metaphysics the basic unit was an experiential event called an 'actual entity', which unifies "its relations to the other actual entities of the world it appropriates" (quotes taken from an article on ANW in my invaluable Oxford Companion to Philosophy). David will be pleased to hear that according to Whitehead, "God plays a central role in this appropriating process." I'm not going to pretend that I understand all of this, but the similarity to the zero point field is pretty clear.