The hard problem of consciousness.
Space-time is doomed.
“If you are embarrassed by the word spirit, think of spirit as the subtlest form of matter. But if you are embarrassed by the word matter, think of it as the densest form of spirit.” Sri Aurobindo.
“Sooner or later, nuclear physics and the psychology of the unconscious will draw closer together, as both of them independently of one another and from opposite directions, push forward into transcendental territory.” Carl Jung.
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration and the day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all previous centuries of its existence.” Nikola Tesla.
In this video Donald Hoffman and Rupert Spira provide deep insight as physics and psychology draw closer together towards describing the fundamental nature of the universe. What follows are some extracts to whet your appetite!
“Consciousness is that with which all experience is known, it is that within which everything arises and ultimately it is that out of which everything is made, in other words it's everything.”
“Why is the fact that space-time is doomed not on the news? We need a theory Beyond space-time and Beyond quantum theory that gives rise to space-time and shows how quantum theory arises with space-time together.”
“One thing that no scientist um will ever do and indeed no person will ever do is know the nature of reality through the faculties of their mind. Why, because our minds impose their own limitations on everything that they know or perceive in, other words the mind looks at reality but reality appears to that mind in accordance with its own limitations. Just as one who looks at snow through orange tinted glasses they are looking at the snow but the snow will appear orange why because of the lens through which they perceive it. All science and this may be true of most scientists unlike the introspective ones like Don who also meditate but the vast majority of scientists investigate reality with their minds it's the wrong tool.”
“If we then try to find that stuff that appears to us as matter, if we go deeply into it we never actually find it, nobody has ever actually found it, we find appearances in consciousness for example if I hold this pen up it seems like there's a pen here but actually you can't separate the pen from the awareness that knows it you can't separate the pen from awareness that knows it nor can you separate its appearance from the perceiving faculties through which it is known.”
“The perennial philosophy is about the one eternal truth, the one thing that that always remains the Same. The Perennial philosophy is really just about that it's not about any of its permutations or appearances. So in other words the consciousness with which let's say somebody born in 100 BC, the consciousness with which they knew their experience is exactly the same consciousness and in the same condition as the consciousness with which each of us are currently knowing our experience and therefore a theory of that consciousness will never change.”
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