Hello my friends.
As we explore
Quantum Body and beyond
the new science of living a longer,
healthier and more vital life,
and as we speak,
the book club around that is
being organized.
So be aware of that.
Stay tuned in, and then
we'll have other books
also on the book club, some of mine
and some others, in areas of interest
to us, to me, to you,
which is of course,
exploring reality.
So I was on a long trip right now
from Bhutan.
More on that later.
Some very
exciting things happening in Bhutan.
And then I was in the Middle East and
I was on long plane rides
and had lots of time to reflect,
lots of time to meditate.
But then, you know, I got
interested in
writing a book
about artificial intelligence.
Whether we like it or not,
it's here to stay.
And of course, like any new
technology, it has
immense advantages
which will take
us to a new level of superintelligence.
Although AI is not, once again,
ever going to be conscious
because information doesn't lead
to consciousness,
it's the other way around.
Information is a derivative
of consciousness.
So in any case, I was thinking,
reflecting on this new book,
I decided to, you know,
I had Internet on the plane, etc.
So I decided to
see what A.I.
has to say about some of the things
that we've been talking about here.
And remember AI's
large language model
and only deals with prevailing,
mostly mainstream opinion.
So it's not creative either,
but it's a good way to get
information and summaries about
what mainstream
scientists are thinking.
So I went to Bard,
to Google Bard A.I.,
and I asked the following question.
I said,
If quantum mechanics
is about
superposition,
entanglement, acausal non-local
quantum mechanical interrelatedness,
the uncertainty principle
and also what non-local
correlation indeterminacy and
constructs like that,
are any of these perceivable
or even conceivable
through
our ordinary ways of thinking,
feeling, knowing, etc.?
And is quantum
mechanical reality even observable?
And so,
you know, I got this
very interesting answer.
You're right that the quantum world
throws our classical,
everyday intuition
for a loop with concepts
like superposition, entanglement
and quantum tunneling,
which is otherwise
also known as teleportation,
whether or not these properties
are perceivable or imaginable depends
on what you mean by those terms,
not directly,
but through their effects.
We can't directly observe, say,
an electron
in superposition of two positions,
but we can see the consequences,
like the interference pattern
in a double slit experiment
where the electron seems to have gone
through both slits simultaneously.
Of course, there's
nothing new about that.
Similarly, entangled particles
don't communicate faster
than light in a classical sense,
but measuring one instantly influences
the state of the other,
regardless of distance,
which is mind-bending
but demonstrably true.
Yeah.
So the quantum systems
are entangled
correlated non-local correlation.
So that's not new news.
And then it goes on
mathematical frameworks
versus reality.
Because I did ask the question,
are these just mathematical
frameworks or are they
pointing to reality?
So here is the answer: Quantum
mechanics uses powerful
mathematical tools
to describe
and predict these phenomena,
but it's important to remember that
math is a tool, not reality itself.
It's like a map of a city.
The map isn't the city,
but it helps us navigate it.
So are these concepts of quantum
mechanics mathematical?
Yes, they provide
a highly successful framework
for understanding
and predicting quantum behavior,
but whether they represent
some deeper
intuitive reality is an open question.
I said, "Aren't
these qualities extrasensory
in a sense, because we don't
perceive them through our senses?"
Now, again,
a classical guarded answer.
While these concepts seem strange
from a classical perspective,
they don't require any new physical
or sensory capacities
or capabilities beyond what
we already have.
We just need to adjust
our mental models
to accommodate the weirdness.
There's no need to invoke
telepathy or hidden dimensions
to explain entanglement.
It's a consequence
of the underlying quantum correlations
that exists between particles.
Then it goes on to say, "The
nature of reality in the quantum realm
is still a subject
of active research and debate.
There are different interpretations
of quantum mechanics
each trying to make sense of its
counterintuitive features.
New experiments and
theoretical advances
may one day give us a more complete
picture of what's going on,
possibly offering a more intuitive
understanding of these phenomena."
"In conclusion, while the properties
of quantum systems before measurement
may not be directly perceivable
or readily imaginable,
their effects are
demonstrably real and the mathematical
framework of quantum mechanics
provides a powerful tool
for understanding, predicting
and predicting them.
Remember (and
this is a good insight), even the seemingly
normal things we perceive in our
everyday world are ultimately
grounded in the strange and bizarre
behavior of quantum
of the quantum realm."
"This is what makes quantum
mechanics so fascinating".
Yeah, so the normal experience is like,
you know, intentionality,
imagination,
memory, morphogenesis,
differentiation, sensory processing,
motor processing, all seem to be
quantum mechanical.
So what's my problem with these
AI systems
is they don't question authority.
So right now, everything
that we know in science is grounded
in the premise
that matter is the ontological
primitive of the universe,
that it all
begins with the atoms, molecules,
force fields and gravity
and then there's something called
"emergent phenomena", which is
ultimately mind and consciousness
through a physical
object called the "brain".
This is all assumption.
There's no there's no real basis
for saying that matter
is the ontological primitive.
Matter, itself, is a human construct
for a particular experience.
The experience is this sensations,
sounds,
smells, tastes, textures
and mental activity.
Putting it all together as, "Oh!
This is matter." So, you know, matter,
itself, is a construct
where all constructs have to come
from only one place.
Consciousness,
which is modifying itself as mind,
which is projecting itself as matter,
whether it's animate matter
or inanimate,
they're also human constructs.
And if you just recognize that
consciousness is
the fundamental
basis of existence and
existence is self-aware,
then we have no problem.
You know, the brain, the mind,
the body, the universe
are all modified expressions
of the only thing that's real.
And that only thing
that's real is inconceivable,
but makes everything
conceivable possible.
That only thing that's real is
beyond all perceptual activity,
but makes perception possible.
That underlying reality
cannot be accessed by rational thought,
but is the source of rational thought.
It cannot be accessed
through emotions
or any way
whatsoever, and yet, without it,
there is no experience of anything that we call
mind, brain, body or universe.
They're all a
unified process in that one awareness,
which is borderless.
I sometimes feel silly
repeating this: borderless,
without form, infinite
spaceless, timeless, irreducible,
beyond cause and effect
and transcendent.
And it is the one
consciousness that is
differentiating itself into
infinite knowers, infinite
modes of knowing
and infinite things known,
and that beyond all our constructs,
beyond the secret passages
and the dark alleys
and the ghost-filled
attics of our minds
and our constructs,
that is
the infinite being that you,
I and all this, is.
There is only the infinite
being of cosmic
consciousness
and we are ripples
in that vast ocean of consciousness.
And beyond the ripples, we are
that vast ocean of consciousness
that is conceiving, constructing,
governing and becoming the
experience of mind, body, universe,
all as a unified process.
And it's formless
and non-material.
And once we accept that,
our science will expand
into new modes of knowing,
new things to know
and creativity
as a never-ending horizon,
or we will be stuck
with the current problems
that actually make
fun of and denigrate
the idea of quantum body, quantum mind,
quantum consciousness, as
"quantum mysticism".
Well, that's
what's hindering our progress.
And it's good to have A.I.
as a resource.
I'll share more with you because
A.I.,
kind of very dogmatically states
what current opinion is
without questioning it.
And I think if we keep bit
by bit by bit dismantling
some of
the assumptions of modern science
and we'll have a new science
which is
so-called observer-based,
and based on modes
of knowing and experience,
we'll expand our
science to new realities.
Reality subject to revision.
And we'll discover so-called
exotic particles to explain
the nature of the universe.
But these exotic
particles will be just newer modes
of knowing and experience
in the one consciousness.
Let's accept that
and then we can expand
our experience of the virtual reality,
the Maya, the illusion
that we're already in.
I have more to say, but I don't want to
take up all the time
discussing these abstract ideas
all at the same time,
because
they are indeed "mind-bending".
So more on this later.
Meanwhile, just one reflection:
The essential nature
of the
material world is it's not material.
The essential nature
of physical reality
is that it's not physical.
The essential nature
of everything finite is infinite.
The essential nature
of everything perceivable
has its source in the imperceivable
and everything that is conceived
has its source
in the inconceivable,
including rational thought,
which is just a species-specific,
I would say
snapshot of perceptual activity,
which is
particularly human in this case.
And therefore another construct,
whether it's Higgs boson or a
new interpretation
of gravitational field,
all these theories are also conceived,
constructed, governed and
come into existence
in the
being of the one awareness,
which is you and me.
Aham Brahmasmi.
So I hope
you don't find this too redundant.
If you do, just cancel me out.
After all,
we do
live in a cancel
culture these days, so no,
not a big deal.
All the best to my friends.