The Final FINAL Frontier (Understanding Consciousness.)

Is 'God' the observer causing reality to exist, or  are you an observer acting as 'God'?

(WARNING:Only for the very OPEN MINDED. Readers may find their entire perception of reality is changed. Read at your own risk.)

ENTRY #1. 

Sometimes we're blissfully unaware of things that are right in front of our faces.   (Gravity, for example.) 

Let's think of something else EXTREMELY obvious.  (We know less about it than gravity.  Bask in the irony that gravity is a THEORY.)

WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?

We've spent so much time looking out into space, we've forgotten how to connect with a virtually endless space within.  

I consider myself to be an observer of society. This has drawn me into some rather interesting questions as well as "trends."  Some might even call them "stereotypes."

Have you ever noticed how humans have a startling way of missing the obvious?  (You've probably been guilty of this a time or two.)

Since you're able to read this right now, you're conscious.  So?
Take a moment to ponder this:

"Why do we KNOW we're here?" 

If you quickly dismiss the question, you're not thinking about it deeply enough.  It should blow your f*ck*ng mind.  If it doesn't blow your mind, you haven't begun to understand it.  (I don't remember who said that...  I probably didn't get the quote quite right either.  Anyway, it applies perfectly.)


I bet you've never thought about many of these things.

Stuart Hameroff M.D.

1. The Problem of Consciousness

Conventional explanations portray consciousness as an emergent property of classical computer-like activities in the brain's neural networks. The prevailing views among scientists in this camp are that 1) patterns of neural network activities correlate with mental states, 2) synchronous network oscillations in thalamus and cerebral cortex temporally bind information, and 3) consciousness emerges as a novel property of computational complexity among neurons.

However, these approaches appear to fall short in fully explaining certain enigmatic features of consciousness, such as:

• The nature of subjective experience, or 'qualia'- our 'inner life' (Chalmers' "hard problem");
• Binding of spatially distributed brain activities into unitary objects in vision, and a coherent sense of self, or 'oneness';
• Transition from pre-conscious processes to consciousness itself;
• Non-computability, or the notion that consciousness involves a factor which is neither random, nor algorithmic, and that consciousness cannot be simulated (Penrose, 1989, 1994, 1997);
• Free will; and,
• Subjective time flow.

Brain imaging technologies demonstrate anatomical location of activities which appear to correlate with consciousness, but which may not be directly responsible for consciousness.

(www.quantumconsciousness.org/presentations/whatisconsciousness.html)

Consciousness is a non-material entity in the quantum domain that is capable of independent existence.  Consciousness can remain localized in the brain so long as the emergent quantum particle state does not change, just as an electron which is a quantum entity can remain localized in an atom so long as the energy of the electron matches the quantum state it occupies.

(http://endgametime.wordpress.com/the-awakening-quantum-mechanics-of-the-human-brain-and-consciousness/)

Getting Excited Yet?

Holonomy in brain function is really achieved at the quantum level. Waveforms embedded and spread throughout the matrix of a neural system allow new patterns to be produced via the transmutation of quantum waves into particles and back again into waves, vice versa, ad infinitum. (Karl Pribram, “Holonomic Brain Theory,” Scholarpedia, 2(5):2735, 2007) http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Holonomic_-Brain_Theory

How does a hologram work?

When you look at a developed piece of film used to make a hologram, you don't see anything that looks like the original scene. Instead, you might see a dark frame of film or a random pattern of lines and swirls. Turning this frame of film into an image requires the right illumination. In a transmission hologram, monochromatic light shines through the hologram to make an image. In a reflection hologram, monochromatic or white light reflects off of the surface of the hologram to make an image. Your eyes and brain interpret the light shining through or reflecting off of the hologram as a representation of a three-dimensional object. The holograms you see on credit cards and stickers are reflection holograms.
You need the right light source to see a hologram because it records the light's phase and amplitude like a code. Rather than recording a simple pattern of reflected light from a scene, it records the interferencebetween the reference beam and the object beam. It does this as a pattern of tiny interference fringes. Each fringe can be smaller than one wavelength of the light used to create them. Decoding these interference fringes requires a key -- that key is the right kind of light. (http://science.howstuffworks.com/hologram3.htm)

Could that "light" be God/collective consciousness?

I hope to answer that question and more in future posts.  Stick around.  It only gets weirder from here.

~Ally White