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willbeurdaddy -> RE: What Happens When You Die? Evidence Suggests Time Simply Reboots (6/20/2010 2:25:23 PM)
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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY
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ORIGINAL: rulemylife
Maybe it is because we have reflected and investigated different concepts, and to paraphrase another poster above, decided it is all nonsense.
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ORIGINAL: DarwinsLilHelper
Any School that would grant a phD based on the fact you can spell the words quantum foam and String Theory (And 10 other Physics sounding words.) is probably the kind of school where you obtain a phD in 15 minutes or so over the internet and get to print out your own diploma. It's the kind of Diploma that looks pretty cool thumb tacked to your bedroom wall but smells slightly like fry-o-later grease.
I'm glad to know that you two are the final fonts of all wisdom, and that no one can advance the boundaries of science and consciousness beyond what you already know. Because you two have all the answers already.
Must be nice to be such a "super-geniuses".
Oh, yeah ...
Holographic principle
In a larger and more speculative sense, the theory suggests that the entire universe can be seen as a two-dimensional information structure "painted" on the cosmological horizon, such that the three dimensions we observe are only an effective description at macroscopic scales and at low energies.
The physical universe is widely seen to be composed of "matter" and "energy". In his 2003 article published in Scientific American magazine, Jacob Bekenstein summarized a current trend started by John Archibald Wheeler, which suggests scientists may "regard the physical world as made of information, with energy and matter as incidentals." Bekenstein quotes William Blake and questions whether the Holographic principle implies that seeing "the world in a grain of sand," could be more than "poetic license".
The Holographic Universe
The holographic universe is an idea presented in the book "The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot that explores the metaphysic implications that underline quantum mechanics supersymmetry and suggests the idea that the universe is a hologram. After examining the work of physicist David Bohm and neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, both of whom independently arrived at holographic theories or models of the universe, the book argues that a holographic model could possibly explain supersymmetry and also various paranormal and anomalous phenomena, and provide a basis for mystical experience.
Quantum mind
The quantum mind or quantum consciousness hypothesis proposes that classical mechanics cannot fully explain consciousness, and suggests that quantum mechanical phenomena, such as quantum entanglement and superposition, may play an important part in the brain's function, and could form the basis of an explanation of consciousness. There are several quite distinct quantum mind theories, ...
So, the interesting speculation is that as the research into quantum physics and string theory advances, there is a chance that we may find that "consciousness" is not wholly a chemical brain reaction, but may be also based on information storage that extends outside the body into the wider quantum universe, in a holographic sense.
If so, then this could explain many of the more difficult to explain "psychic" experiences and other dimly understand aspects of human experience, especially in death, near death and religious and psychic experiences.
This could even lead to the scientific possibility of a "undying soul" which consists of an imprint that human consciousness has on the underlying structure of the universe.
Or that the universe itself is one huge, conscious information storage and manipulation system. (Can you say "god"?)
Of course, this is just speculation, but what I find interesting is that some serious scholars are positing some of those possibilities, and that there may actually be scientific answers to "the meaning of life" and the existence of "god" and the "soul".
You two, of course, may continue to be content and not be interested, since you are already have all the answers.
Me, I like to dream of possibilities, sometimes.
Firm
Poisonally I think its all hogwash. Consciousness is just chemical/electrical, and when you die, ashes to ashes. However IF it there is more to it then the answer lies in quantum mechanics and Leonard Susskinds theories on black hole event horizons and their extrapolation to the "shell" of the universe. Morgan Freeman's series on SC, "Through the Wormhole" explains these theories as well as anything Ive read or seen.
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