“Imagine a fish swimming in an aquarium. Imagine also that you have never seen a fish or an aquarium before and your only knowledge about them comes from two television cameras' one directed at the aquarium's front and the other at its side. When you look at the two television monitors you might mistakenly assume that the fish on the screens are separate entities. After all, because the cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will be slightly different. But as you continue to watch you will eventually realize there is a relationship between the two fish. When one turns, the other makes a slightly different but corresponding turn. When one faces the front, the other faces the side, and so on. If you are unaware of the full scope of the situation, you might wrongly conclude that the fish are instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is not the case. No communication is taking place because at a deeper level of reality, the reality of the aquarium, the two fish are actually one and the same”. - David Bohm (Quantum Physicist)
One. It's just a matter of perspective.Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Thoughts...
“…the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter...we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.” - Sir James Jeans (Astrophysicist)
Thoughts intermingling with other thoughts.
No thought is complete or fully comprehended until it is expressed.
Thoughts intermingling with other thoughts.
No thought is complete or fully comprehended until it is expressed.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Free Will...
Through the breadth of interpenetration we, the universe, all, are one entity, just different perspectives.
Our individual free will is experienced as a collapsing quantum indeterminacy within the whole.
"...I mentioned two unsolved cosmological enigmas deeply implicated in free will, the problem of consciousness and of indeterminacy in nature. I think that a full understanding of how actions outflow from agents would require a better understanding of these problems, and it may be that both the unity of conscious experience and the unity of the self-network are somehow related to the quantum character of reality, as various scientists and philosophers have suggested".
Robert Kane, The Significance of Free Will (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 195.
Our individual free will is experienced as a collapsing quantum indeterminacy within the whole.
"...I mentioned two unsolved cosmological enigmas deeply implicated in free will, the problem of consciousness and of indeterminacy in nature. I think that a full understanding of how actions outflow from agents would require a better understanding of these problems, and it may be that both the unity of conscious experience and the unity of the self-network are somehow related to the quantum character of reality, as various scientists and philosophers have suggested".
Robert Kane, The Significance of Free Will (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 195.
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Merging...
The wealth of this unnamable complementary "I" is a function of a vast network of like associated interpenetrations, say within the brain. The "I" manifests simply as the leading perspective of a greater whole. Aware of the whole through interpenetration at one end of the complementary spectrum. A specific guiding quantum within the whole at the other end.
"The unnamable is the eternally real". [01]
[01] Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching (New York: HarperPerennial, 1992)
"The unnamable is the eternally real". [01]
[01] Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching (New York: HarperPerennial, 1992)
Saturday, February 3, 2007
In other words...
The "I" in ourselves emerges from the complementary nature of presence-awareness, being-nonbeing, space-time, and particle-wave. We are truly no particular thing. But rather the unnamable, vaguely graspable process of oscillating between complementary poles.
Friday, February 2, 2007
Complementarity in Philosophy...
In Hinduism, "Neti Neti" roughly translated means "neither this, nor that". No-thing. The nature of the divine.
In Taoism...
"Being and Non-Being create each other."[02]
"We work with being, but non-being is what we use."[11]
Could it be that presence-awareness are complementary?
Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching (New York: HarperPerennial, 1992) [02] [11]
In Taoism...
"Being and Non-Being create each other."[02]
"We work with being, but non-being is what we use."[11]
Could it be that presence-awareness are complementary?
Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching (New York: HarperPerennial, 1992) [02] [11]
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Complementarity in Physics...
The most referenced example of complementarity involves the particle-wave aspects of a quantum of light as demonstrated by the two-slit experiment. Unless measured, the quantum will materialize in a wave pattern. But when measured, it reflects attributes of a particle. The simple act of measurement affects the results.
Both particle and wave aspects constitute valid views while only one applies in a given situation.
In a sense, the same is true with matter-energy under Einstein’s theory of special relativity, and space-time under Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Both particle and wave aspects constitute valid views while only one applies in a given situation.
In a sense, the same is true with matter-energy under Einstein’s theory of special relativity, and space-time under Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
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