Ok, I’m not a physicist nor do I play one on TV–I don’t even look like one, whatever that is. But I love science and I enjoy finding relationships in nature. Today it seems like scientists are actively pursuing to keep things apart. To tell a scientist, “we are all one” is to invite scorned and pitchforked cry, “there’s no proof that we are!” Ah, it sucks is all I can say because socially, it would be nice if that that we are all one would be announced by scientists. I do find it fascinating how we(humans) fight so hard to stay seperated. We’re still cavemen living in seperate clans, there’s that old DNA that still keeps us savages.
During the airing of Cosmos, Carl Sagan said that we really are all star-stuff, meaning that we are essentially carbon based life forms–and oxygen and hydrogen–and that we are probably surrounded by some of the same atoms that were created during the big bang. Yeah, they’re all probably still here. It’s not an easy concept for a lot of people to accept but it makes perfect sense as it is a concept supported by Newtonian physics. Last week I got my ass handed to me at the Physics Forum because I asked why the connection between consciousness and quantum mechanics was not looked into more. That question went over like a fart in a crowded elevator. I was asked for proof, numbers, calculations, you name it. My biggest mistake was that I declared a connection between quantum mechanics and consciousness as “laughingly obvious”.
I learned that saying this to physicists or at least, pragmatists is the wrong approach but they’re going to ask me why. Also, these types of people do not accept hunches, feelings and other subjective phenomena–only facts. Needless to say, I rescinded my decleration and ended the discussion. It is clear to me now that physics cannot answer what I’m looking for. In fact, our level of scientific understanding is either non-existent or at best neophyte in understanding how consciousness affects matter. Is “affects” even the appropriate word to use?
Our scientific knowledge has accomplished breathtaking achievements in the past 400 years. But it has all been through observation and experimentation. How do you conduct experiments on the nature of consciousness? The very act of measuring anything in consciousness may change the results–it’s all so subjective.
In my next post, I’ll break down terms in philosophy as I understand them with the goal of establishing a strategy to the details of enleightenment. Physics, quantum or classical will not be on this list. If at any point I realize that I’m ready to present empirecal data, I’ll hit back at the physicists.
