Quantum Physics: Lights Frozen in Time (General)

by dhw, Friday, August 19, 2016, 12:17 (3016 days ago) @ dhw

PART TWO - QUOTE: The Nobel Prize winning physicist David Bohm has written about what he calls the implicate order of the holographic universe. This concept suggests that the entire universe is an ever-changing cosmic hologram that is layered with information. Each layer holds a higher order of information and each higher order is enfolded in an aspect of space/time. The higher order may be thought of as consciousness that filters wave-like into form. Because it is a hologram, every segment contains information about the entire universe. Thus, consciousness is indeed in all things. Light is both the medium and the message. - Firstly, I don't understand why it has to be a hologram. Why can't it simply be what it appears to be: matter and energy layered with information? Why does a hologram enable something to contain information about the entire universe? And why must every segment contain information about the entire universe for there to be consciousness in all things (an extreme form of panpsychism)? Do we believe that a lump of rock is conscious? A lump of rock certainly contains information (what it is composed of, how it came into existence, what experiences it has undergone during that existence), but I would suggest that only a conscious mind like ours can extract such information. How does panpsychism lead to the conclusion that light is the medium and the message?
 
QUOTE: What these concepts tell us is that, at the heart of our universe, there are no separate parts to anything, and that everything is connected to everything else. Moreover, they explain how information can be transferred superluminously, or faster than the speed of light. For example, if two photons are non-locally connected, communication between them can be instantaneous because they are not truly separate. - Now we are linking up with the realms of philosophy and religion, and I find it exciting to see this link being established between mysticism and science.
 
QUOTE: These discoveries from quantum physics have important implications for the evolution of human consciousness predicted by the Andean prophecies. As Bohm states, the world is an "unbroken wholeness"; everything is non-locally interconnected. We need to learn to perceive holistically because our world and the entire universe is actually interconnected. It is erroneous to continue to perceive our world as a conglomeration of separate, unrelated parts…
 Moreover, this holistic way of perceiving the world mirrors the teachings of ancient people such as the Inca. … Buddhist and Hindu teachings have long told us that everything is energy dancing in form, and that the dance is a continuous weaving of the form and the formless. Now research from the frontiers of science is telling us the same thing. - I find the Buddhist and Hindu teachings far easier to understand than the teachings relating to a holographic universe in which everything is conscious, every segment contains information about everything, and all matter is conscious light. But thank you, BBella, for this. You have opened up many dark areas, and I hope the above manifestations of my own ignorance will eventually lead to some “enlightenment”.