Posts by Rev Illuminatus Maximus
Spontaneous Perceptual Experiences
…[M]atter is never entirely passive… rather… material things actively “solicit our attention” or “call our focus,” coaxing the perceiving body into an ongoing participation with those things. In the absence of intervening technologies, sensory experience is inherently animistic, disclosing a material field that is animate and self-organizing from the get-go. Drawing upon contemporary cognitive and natural…
Read MoreBrains and Branes
…[I]f the theory of consciousness presented in this paper is correct, then all the contents of consciousness — including our visual sensations — lie in a space, or brane, of their own outside the physical universe. Normal perception, in this theory, is mediated by the causal chain object–photon–retina–brain–(cross to a new brane)–visual field. Hallucinations involve…
Read MorePhase Space & Consciousness
It is suggested that objects in physical space enter our perceptual space via phase space. A hyperspace is a phase space with more than 3 dimensions. It is our conjecture that consciousness is better described in its relationship to hyperspace than to an anatomical place. ((http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1201004/))
Read MoreThe DMT Experience
It seems that DMT releases one’s consciousness from the ordinary experience of space and time and catapults one into direct experience of a four-dimensional world which is perhaps identical to the four-dimensional world studied in special relativity theory… Einstein’s four-dimensional space-time may thus turn out to be not merely a flux of energetic point-events but…
Read MoreUnderstanding the Implicate Order
Bohm believes that… space and time might actually be derived from an even deeper level of objective reality… [called] the Implicate Order [which]… endlessly enfolds and unfolds into infinite dimensionality. Within this milieu there are independent sub-totalities (such as physical elements and human entities) with relative autonomy. The layers of the Implicate Order can go deeper and deeper to…
Read MorePhysicists Are Saying Consciousness Is A State Of Matter
So the problem is why we perceive the universe as the semi-classical, three dimensional world that is so familiar. When we look at a glass of iced water, we perceive the liquid and the solid ice cubes as independent things even though they are intimately linked as part of the same system. How does this…
Read MoreQuantum Waves
In the parallel universe model, the wave of possibilities is something that at first sight appears magical. Let me describe its properties. First of all, it is a wave and it can be imagined to do all the things that waves do. It undulates, vibrates, and moves through space and time. When the wave encounters…
Read MoreTegmark on Consciousness as Quantum Matter
…Max Tegmark of MIT… postulates that consciousness is actually a state of matter. “Just as there are many types of liquids, there are many types of consciousness,” he says. With this new model, Tegmark says that consciousness can be described in terms of quantum mechanics and information theory, allowing us to scientifically tackle murky topics…
Read MoreNothing Matters, so Never Mind
Mind can be detected by three features of quantum theory: randomness, thinglessness (objects acquire attributes only once they are observed) and interconnectedness… Herbert thinks that these three features of inert matter can account for three basic features of mind: free will, essential ambiguity, and deep psychic connectedness. Scientists may be vastly underestimating the quantity of consciousness…
Read MoreIrreducible Consciousness
…unlike most of the physical world, which can be broken down into individual atoms, or organisms, which can be understood in terms of cells, consciousness is an irreducible aspect of the universe, like space and time and mass… According to this view, a theory of consciousness would not explain what consciousness is or how it arose;…
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