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Contnts

Poogu v

ParT I

1 right vs lt Bin 1

2 Intuitiv vsus disciminting (rtion) Min 113 Th Intignt, Intuitiv ‘Unconscious’ 19

4 Compmnt Thinking & fing 28

5 Spit rit 37

ParT II

6 Th Bin & Mstic epincs 46

7 dctivting th Bin 53

8 Vitu rit 64

9 Quntum-Hoogphic Tho o Pcption 7410 Th Insubstnti Univs 84

ParT III

11 Th R astonishing Hpothsis 91

12 Supposition in th fu-Voi 98

13 Cnction in th empt Voi 108

14 Mittion & th Bin 122

ParT IV

15 Mt-Nuoog 132

16 Univs Bin-Min 144

17 fu-Tim Mstic, Pt-Tim Scintist 167

epiogu 174

rncs 176



Oth Books B J a

Ou Invisib Bois

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v

Poogu

This istinction btwn pst, psnt, n utu is on n

iusion

abt einstin, Phsicist

Convntion nuoscinc ssums tht th is objctiv wo ‘out

th’ n tht th bin constucts wo tht is psnttiv o this

wo But how o w pov tht? do w us ou th- imnsion instu-mnts to pob n ou th-imnsion consciousnss to vi?

What exactly is out there?

Cont to th convntion nuoscintiic th-imnsion mo,

cutting-g phsics ts us tht th wo ‘out th’ is muti-imnsion

n not soi but ccophon o wvoms Th th-imnsion wo

constuct b th bin is uction n imit intpttion o wht

is out th In estn igious phiosoph n ctin Wstn phi-

osophis, th is bo sstion tht wht is out th is poic

‘u-voi’ — i nothingnss which contins vthing appnt, this

voi hs bn ‘pinc’ b mstics n vnc mittos — s -

co quit tnsiv in igious sciptus n th mtphsic it-

tu In this voi, spc n tim mningss Th Sungm Sut o

th Buhists mphtic point out tht oction in spc is iusion

Sint augustin biv in n v-psnt tnit which ws not ccs-

sib to humns Both spc n tim m b iusions

Utimt, momnts on Tho now is

tnit

dvi Bohm, Phsicist



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jay alfred | BraINS aNd realITIeS

fo ong tim it ws ssum tht spc n tim w unmnt to

th uning it; but einstin’s Tho o Spci rtivit topp

this ssumption Wht w obsv s spc n wht w obsv s tim

now g s two spcts o mo unmnt spctim continu-um To wht tnt this continuum mnists s spc n how much o it

mnists s tim vis ccoing to th tiv motion o th obsv In

oth wos, th both subjct to ou pcption within spciic ms

o nc which povi th-imnsion mwoks to stuctu ou

mnt img o th wo But w phps civing ousvs whn w

ssum tht th so unmnt to th uning it

Spc n tim ik th two nss in pi o gsss

Without th gsss w cou s nothing Th ctu wo,

th wo tn to ou mins, is not ict pcivb;

w s on wht is tnsmitt to us b ou spc-tim

spctcs Th objct, wht Knt c th ‘Thing-in-

Its’, is tnscnnt, bon ou spc-tim, compt

unknowb… Pcptions in, in sns, iusions Th

shp n coo b ou subjctiv sns o spc n

tim

Mtin Gn, Mthmticin

Advances in Brain Science

rcnt, Scinc hs m signiicnt vncs in stuing th bin u-

ing mittiv stts Using cutting-g mic imging mthos, obs-

vtions hv bn m o spciic s in th bin which ctivt o

ctivt uing mittion It hs so bn wi obsv tht mn

mittiv titions mphsis th ctivtion n vopmnt o th ighthmisph o th bin In ct, ctin stuis hv shown tht vious

s in th ight hmisph gow thick with gu mittion

Is it possib to moi th option o th bin to ow mitto

to pinc tot int it? Cn w bpss th bin’s con-

stuctions to ch mo unmnt it? It is bcoming incsing

vint tht w bock b ou pcptu pptus om pincing

mo pimoi it Hnc, it wou mk sns to ook t how th

humn bin pocsss inomtion to unstn btt th mos tht

it uss to constuct its intpttion o th uning it; whi bing

imit b its own pocssing pow n cpbiitis



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…ou snss cnnot b u tust spci whn it coms

to such unmnt qustions s th imnsionit o th

wo …th is nothing th-imnsion in th objctiv

wo…th th-imnsionist viw conticts [einstin’s]Spci [Tho o] rtivit n mo impotnt th

pimnts which conim its consquncs …spctim

is not m mthmtic spc but psnts ou-

imnsion tn wo which is not ict ct in

ou pcptions

Vssin Ptkov, Phsicist

The Journey

W wi bgin th joun b ist iscussing th int mthos o

pocssing snso inomtion in th ight n t hmisphs o th hu-

mn bin W wi thn po wht hppns to th bin uing mstic

pincs s v b cnt mic stuis at this, w wi tk

ook t wht mon phsics ts us o th ntu o th univs o muti-

vs, comping it with wht mstics hv si bout it

W wi thn popos th stonishing hpothsis tht th pincs

o mstics concib to mon phsics; n tht th bin cn bm to pinc mo unmnt it wh spc n tim o not

opt dsciptions o this it co in igious n mtphsic

ittu wi b viw, ongsi sciptions om mon phsics

Thn w wi poc to s how th humn bin conncts to p

univss n viw its non-oc ntu rs wi howv not n un-

cunt o qustions ging th ntu n utu o Scinc n how

it cn b conci to th totit o humn pinc Scinc pt ws

with rigion mo thn 500 s go, shking-o th ust o cntuis o non-vii cims n supstitions Wi it b unit with rigion’s in-

n ssnc n wisom in th nt 500 s?



I sti biv th univs hs bginning in tim, t th

big bng But th’s noth kin o tim, imgin tim,

t ight ngs to tim, in which th univs hs no

bginning o n

Stphn Hwking



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C H a P T e r 1

right vs lt Bin

Ou bin, ik mn oth pts o ou ntom, is m up o two hvs,

t bin n ight bin Th connct to ch oth b thick cb o nvs t th bs o ch bin, c th copus cosum It is

nogous to cb o ntwok connction btwn two incib st

n immns powu computs, ch unning int pogm to

pocss bsic th sm input Whn rog Sp sv th copus

cosum in th sitis, which connct th t n ight bins, h ws

stunn b th ct tht his ‘spit-bin’ ptints bhv s i th h two

mins n two psons in on bo!

H oun tht th ptint cou nm n objct but cou not pin

wht it ws us o whn th objct ws shown on to th ight (th

t ‘vb’ bin pocsss t om th ight visu i) Whn shown

to th t (th ight ‘non-vb’ bin pocsss t om th t

visu i), th ptint cou pin n monstt its us, but cou

not nm it rog Sp civ th 1981 Nob Piz o his wok in this

It pps tht whn nom pson nms n objct n pins

its pupos, both hvs o hmisphs o th bin, which connct

b th copus cosum, pticipt in this in concusion

Split-brain vs. Normal People

Spit-bin stuis imp but o not pov tht oin pop hv two

mins Howv, th is bunnt scintiic vinc tht monstts



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th vnc o spit-bin inings o oin pop with intct bins

In spit-bin ptints th t bin uss int sttgis om th ight

bin

Scintists hv oun tht oin pop hv th sm incs incognitiv biitis btwn sis s spit-bin ptints I n oin p-

son is st in ont o scn n sk to ook ow n n objct is

sh v bi to his ight si (i his t bin), h wi spon st

n mo ccut i th tsk invovs ngug I ou sh spti tsk,

o mp, sking th subjct to inti i ot is within cic, h wi

pom btt whn sh on his t si (o to th ight bin)

Oin pop so shown to b btt t sing th ov pictu

i n img is sh to th ight bin Ths stuis n oths invoving

hing though th t n ight s hv bn pt mn huns

o tims in oin pop, n th inings consistnt simi to

thos in spit-bin ptints Th inings mn tht th cognitiv biitis

o th t n ight bins o spit-bin ptints simi to thos o o-

in pop

PeT scns show tht vn whn nom pop (with intct bins) tk,

th boo-ow pttn chngs in thi bins, n th’s mo ctivit

in th t bin thn in th ight Whn th imgin spc, th pttn

vss On stu on occuption pncs in cognitiv sts showtht thos who c engish s mjo h gt boo ow in th

t bin (th vb bin); whs thos who mjo in chitctu h

cosponing high v in th ight bin1

Whn th vinc is sit n wigh, w min

tht ou ‘oin’ mins mo simi to spit-bin mins

thn som nuoscintists wou ik us to biv

d fic Schi 2

dspit mi cptions, th buk o spit-bin sch hs

v n nomous g o tistion, o spciiztion

in ch hmisph

Mich Gzznig 3

Different Modes of Thinking

Th tm ‘t bin’ us in this book incus both th high (i th

nocot) n ow (o mp, th mg) bin stuctus on th

t si o th bin Simi, th ‘ight bin’ incus both th high n

ow bin stuctus on th ight si o th bin accoing to Bnic



rIGHT VS lefT BraIN | Chapter 1

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McCth, th two bins conto two int ‘mos’ o thinking o cog-

nitiv sts ech o us ps on mo ov th oth Whi th t

bin is ogic, squnti, tion, ntic n ooks t pts; th ight

bin ctivitis pp nom, intuitiv, hoistic, snthsizing n ooks t whos4 Th t bin pocsss inomtion om pts to who; th ight

bin howv, pocsss om th who to pts

Right Brain is Holistic, uses Top-Down Processing

accoing to Onstin, om th stuis o th spit-bin though

cnt sch on th who comptnt unctioning bin, th scintiic

unstning hs bcom incsing ctin o th ight bin’s o in

sing th g viw Sing th g ognistion is spciiztion o

th ight bin5 Mo spciic, Nwbg n ’ aquii biv tht th

ight pit ob is invov in hoistic (top-own) ppoch to things

whs th t pit ob is invov in mo uctionist n ntic

(bottom-up) pocss6

Figure 1: Regions of the Brain

Mn spit-bin stuis conim tht th ight bin is supio t

ssmbing pics o th wo into cohnt pictu7 Whn w ck

high-v pcption, th wo wi sm ik isconnct mz o in-

iviu pincs; th bin os not ssmb th iniviu ins into

ting W on s ‘ting’ whn w chng ou viwpoint To som



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tnt, this vincs ‘high-imnsion’ viw o th subjct Whs

th t bin hs ‘in pspctiv’ in tht it ss th iniviu on-

imnsion objcts i ins; th ight bin, on th oth hn, ss

who two-imnsion objct i tingTh ight si sms to b spciiz o th g mnts, th ov-

shps o objcts n th wo shp Th t si hns th sm,

pcis inks tht c th sm, mo pcis mnings n movmnts

It’s this spciiztion tht contibuts to on si bing goo o th n-

sis o sm tus vsus th hoistic vision o th oth si Th t

hmisph is mo ocus on tis n th ight hmisph is btt t

pciving ov pttns This so gos o ngug pocssing

Pop with ight hmisph mg cn ws unstn th it

mning o qust, but th cnnot ws jug wht th qust mns

in contt (in oth wos, th ‘oth imnsions’ o th subjct) Th us o

mtpho invovs th ight hmisph Mtphos, ik inict ngug,

scsm o ion, conv signiicnc tht is int om th it

mning Mn ight bin mg ptints so sm to hv iicut

in intiing th gist o pssgs In o to o this, w n to b b

to s things s who8 This hs so bn u to in th mtphsic

ittu Chs lbt ss tht th ‘cus’ [o high imnsion]

consciousnss s with th ssnc o thing, whi th ‘ow min’ [s-socit with th t bin] stuis its tis9

Right Brain is a Parallel Processor and Appositional

epimnts conuct b Binki concu tht in nims th p-

spti pocsso o inomtion pocssing is ocis in th ight hmi-

sph n th squnti-tmpo pocsso in th t on10 accoing

to Kis, ‘rucing input om th nvionmnt to componnts n s-

quncs is sut o th t si’s om o ognistion’11

McCth ss,‘Th t bin pocsss in in, squnti, ogic mnn Whn ou

pocss on th t si, ou us inomtion pic b pic to sov mth

pobm o wok out scinc pimnt Whn ou n istn, ou

ook o th pics so tht ou cn w ogic concusions I ou pocss

pimi on th ight si o th bin, ou us intuition’12

accoing to Josph Bogn13, th humn ‘poposition’ t hmi-

sph is compmnt b n ‘pposition min’ on th ight si To

‘ppos’ mns to pc ttibuts in jutposition, in supposition o

in p Poposition is n ‘ith-o’ o ‘tu-s’ ppoch — ith

on ttibut o its cont is ccpt s tu t point in tim It uss

smmtic (cssic o aistotin) ogic Th ight bin uss ‘both-

n’ ppoch It uss ‘smmtic ogic’ — som might s ‘quntum ogic’




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Hnc, th intn ogic us b th ight bin is int om th t

bin

accoing to Onstin, mn schs in th i hv now con-

cu tht th o o th ight hmisph sms to invov mintining thtntiv mnings o mbiguous wos in immit mmo, whi th

o o th t hmisph is to ocus on on on mning Gnizing,

w cou s tht th ight hmisph is b to ho n ttibut n its

cosponing cont ttibut in supposition (o in p) whs

th t hmisph ttns to on ttibut t tim — ist on ttibut

n thn th cont ttibut — in squnti mnn

Right Brain has Convergent Awareness

K Popp n Nob winning nuoscintist John eccs, uthos o ‘Th

S n Its Bin,’ scib th ight bin s th ‘mino bin’ Som hv

vn qustion whth th ight bin is conscious t Th t si hs

ong bn consi th ominnt hmisph, sponsib o th uniqu-

humn git o ngug n bcus o this — mn hv gu — ou

s-wnss n intignc eccs thinks tht th ight hmisph is

not conscious t bcus spit-bin ptints cnnot pss th contnts

o thi ight hmisphs in wos This is obvious pmtu concu-

sion How os consciousnss is?

Consciousnss is how w th imtion-ngtion contst

a Noth Whith 14

Th Hinu sint, Pmhns yognn ss, ‘Th no pic-

tus without ight n show’15 In oth wos, th is no consciousnss

o this o tht without iscimintion o intition Consciousnss o

conscious wnss iss whn compmnt ttibuts intit- in th nvionmnt — hot om co, ciic om kin, ight om k

n so on evn sing-c ognisms mov w om ctin stimui

n mov tows oth stimui b intiting vob n unvo-

b snstions Th ntu o conscious wnss is tho ncssri

uistic W wi scib this tp o consciousnss o wnss (ssoci-

t qunt with th t bin) s ‘ivgnt wnss’ in this book (o

conscious wnss)

a pcptu sstm, which is nith ttct to n ttibut no -

p b its compmnt ttibut, os not intit hot om co,

ciic om kin, ight om k n so on This wou b th opposit

o bing conscious — but w shou not concu tht it is ‘unconscious’

W wi scib this tp o consciousnss s ‘convgnt wnss’ (o



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unconscious wnss) in this book Th choics o ths tms is

om th int ws in which th two bins t th s with th

nvionmnt

accoing to Kis, th ight bin bivs th ognism incus thnvionmnt n subsqunt mos this tn s Th s is int-

pt om th vntg point o th wo n convrgs into th s om

th nvionmnt Th t bin (n ow stuctus on th t si o th

bin), on th oth hn, bivs vnts in th wo oow th ognism’s

us o ognistion In oth wos, th wo is intpt om th vn-

tg point o th s n divrgs out om th s to th nvionmnt In

oth wos, th ight bin uss tio us (om th nvionmnt) in its

nuon ognistion n pocssing; whs th t bin uss intio

us (om its s) to pciv n ns th nvionmnt16

antomic vinc suppots ths inncs Th t bin hs

gt nsit o cs thn th ight, n mo impotnt, th is mo

g mtt tiv to whit, with th opposit pttn in th ight bin17

This suggsts tht th ognistion o th t bin, tiv to th ight,

mphsiss pocssing within gions whi th ight bin mphsiss

pocssing cross gions evinc om both nom n bin-mg

poputions suppots this ichotom, ccoing to Kis18

divgnt wnss is smmtic It oscits om n ttibut toits compmnt cont ttibut ov tim; n is ntic n is-

ciminto — this is nom ssocit with th t bin Convgnt

wnss is smmtic n pposition, cing out p pocss-

ing o issimi ttibuts o snthsizing inputs om two o mo si

pocssing stms — this is nom ssocit with th ight bin In

oth wos, th ight n t bins combin convgnt wnss with

ivgnt wnss This conigution is simi to Bn Bs’ i

o ‘tht (o consciousnss)’19

which combins convgnt input withivgnt output

The Right Brain is Visual and Spatially Intelligent

accoing to Onstin, mg to th ight bin not on stos th visu

inomtion coming om th t, but mo impotnt ou unstning

o spc Simi, mg to th t bin stos th biit o th ight

bin to vbiz occsion (using th t bin’s spch cnts)20 Th

t bin vbizs n is tim-ik In contst, th ight bin communi-

cts using visu mssgs n is spc-ik W cn s, tho, tht th

t bin hns ‘nm’ n th ight bin hns ‘om’; th ight bin

hns ‘spc’ n th t bin ‘tim’ Togth, th who bin givs us

th pinc o ‘nm n om’ in spctim




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Spti intignc is tht spct o ou intignc tht ows us to mk

jugmnts bout th th-imnsion wo in which w iv a ootb

p ctching pss is on spti intignc to jug th tjcto o

th b an chitct uss it to visuis wht buiing wi ook ik whnit is compt W us it v tim w iv c n hv to jug th

istnc to th c in ont o us avnc mth couss qui goo sp-

ti intignc This spti intignc is t to th biit o th ight

bin to s things hoistic, using top-own pocss as not,

whi th t bin m s th ins, th ight bin ss ting

Aging and Brain Dominance

Th ts o vopmnt btwn th two bins int uing p-

son’s itim Th ight bin vops t st t uing th ist two

s in humns Sp hs shown tht n infnt ttnds to mor vnts in n

pisod thn vn n dut Howv, this biit tiots s th t bin

vops fom gs 3 to 5, th t hmisph vops mo pi, s th

chi cquis ngug21

Th gu imintion o ‘bissu’ stts pinc in chihoo

m b u to th vopmnt o th isciminto t bin Th o s-

ing tht w hv to bcom ik chi to ‘nt th kingom o hvn’ so

bcoms mo mningu with ou unstning o bin vopmntMn ging stuis show cin in ight bin unctions s w g

fo mp, mn schs pot n g-t op in spti mm-

o whi no signiicnt nogous chngs occu in t bin tsks aso,

mmo o cs, pominnt ight bin biit, cins with nom

ging22 as w g, th t bin ttmpts to conto spcts o th o-

gnism, incuing th ow o inomtion coss th copus cosum In

oth wos, th t bin bcoms ominnt Kisz oun tht uts in

thi otis cou bst b intit om uts in thi itis b impimnt tsts to thi ight bins23

a this suggsts tht whn w (most o us) com into this wo w

ight-bin ominnt; but whn w v it w t-bin ominnt

Sinc th ight bin is so ssocit with ctivit, os this povi

vinc on wh th most ctiv wok o mn tists n scintists

nom oun i in i th thn t?

Avoiding Generalizations

Th phsic bounis o th t n ight bins must not b tkn too

sious W utimt concn mo with th tps o pocssing

tht gos on in th bin — whth bottom-up (stting om pts) o top-

own (stting om th who) th thn thi phsic octions Th



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spit-bin pimnts show tht i th two hmisphs not connct

into sing cicuit — tht is, i th o not spk to ch oth — th -

ist ssnti s two mjo cicuits On th cicuit connct to th n-

gug cnt sms to sut in conscious wnss Hnc, in spit-binptints, th ight bin unctions o not nt into consciousnss ict

sinc it is not connct to th (conscious) t bin Howv, it shou b

not tht th two bins cn spk to ch oth on noth v tht os

not qui th copus cosum Th cn so spk to ch oth vi th

imbic sstm (though th thmus n hpothmus) n th utonomic

nvous sstm

Unsuspected Connections and Disconnections

Unti cnt it ws biv tht th nti copus cosum must b sv-

to povi i om sv piptic sizus Howv this is not

ncssi th cs — th copus cosum on ns to b sv nough

to povi i, without osing nu intgtion Bs on this nw

om o sug, d H G Goon, nuobioogist t th Cioni Institut

o Tchnoog, so oun tht connction t th bck o th bin on

is nough to intgt both humn mins accoing to him, ‘th cb

hmisphs tot intgt i but sm ction o th copus cosum

mins intct’On th oth hn, tumos o boo cots pssing on on pt o n

intct copus cosum cn cus u-bown Jk/H ctions (simi

to spit-bin ptints) Goon n his co-woks J e Bogn n rog

Sp biv tht tumos n cots cus wvs o inhibition to sp to

pts o th copus cosum Th shock nv ibs simp o not

c impuss om on si o th bin to th oth futhmo, it hs

so bn oun tht vn in hth copus cosum on ctin tps

o inomtion cn b ci Compict high v inomtion cnnotpss though om on bin to th oth

Spit-bins cn b initit both phsic n chmic It m so

b initit pschoogic though thought pocsss n communic-

tions btwn th t n ight bin svs — suting in on si bing

ominnt logic, this cou mn tht nom pson with ominnt

t bin m hibit bhvio simi to spit bin pson with pti

mg ight bin

Plasticity of the Brain

Th bin is i pstic n cn ccommot int tps o pocss-

ing i it ws ognis i nt phsic — o mp i th ws sig-

niicnt mg to on hmisph o th bin On o Mich Gzznig’s




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ptints vop th cpcit to spk out o th ight bin 13 s t

th bin sug Th so css invoving chin, wh on c-

b hmisph ws mov Chin who hv ungon bin mov

t n g vop mo o ss nom Th mining cot tksov th unctions onc povi b th mov cot I th mov oc-

cus t in i, howv, this sot o compnstion os not occu

Migration of Skills from Right to Left Brain over Time

It hs bn not tht whi nov skis, such s ping music instu-

mnt o th ist tim, m b hn b th ight bin, th skis n

knowg tn to migt to th t bin ov tim — thus, inhibiting

th ctivit initi hibit — this m so b th bsis o ‘bginns’

uck’

Shared Resources and Services

In th 1980s J Hotzmn o Con Univsit Mic Cog oun

tht ch hmisph is b to ict spti ttntion not on to its own

snso sph but so to ctin points in th snso sph o th oppo-

sit, isconnct hmisph24 In oth wos, ctin soucs in th t

bin vib to th ight bin n vic vs Th two bins

tho us th oth bin o ctin pts o th pocsss tht initi-t n concu in th oth bin Co-optiv pocssing n shing

o soucs must b bon in min whn tking bout th ichotom o

tsks btwn th ight n t bins

Left-Handed People

Th bin ogniztion o t-hn pop is otn int om tht o

ight-hn pop This cou incu vs bin ognistion o

both bins with both ngug n spti biitis fo optim unction-ing, Onstin bivs tht th two mjo unctions o th humn mnt

sstm n to st within th ng o quiibium25 accoing to him,

th ight bin spciiztions vop to thi ust whn inom b

u vop t si Othwis w gt ‘om without contnt’ Both

sis o th bin most ik incopot th oth si into thi mos o

th wo Th t si m mo th ight s pt o its own ognistion

Th ight si m pciv th t si s pti tio to th ogn-

ism, compict gion o th nvionmnt whos us th ight si wi

ttmpt to cqui Th bo n possib th oth si o th bin

pinc s bing th tio nvionmnt n subsqunt mo

s such in th ight bin



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Sex Differences

rschs t th Univsit o Pnnsvni Mic Cnt hv cnt-

pot tht, tiv to cni voum, womn’s bins hv high

popotion o g mtt (which ciitts computtions) whi mn hv high popotion o whit mtt (which ciitts communiction b-

twn goups o cs in int s o th bin) Stuis so show tht

womn hv thick copus cosum, which is compos o whit mtt,

conncting th ight n t bins, owing thm to intgt thi ight

n t bins btt Th copus cosum, howv, is compos o whit

mtt Womn tho supio in thi cpcit to communict b-

twn th int mos o pciving n ting to th wo, ccoing

to Kistin Hotk

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C H a P T e r 2

Intuitiv vsus disciminting(rtion) Min

Th intuitiv min is sc git n th tion min is

ithu svnt W hv ct socit tht honos th

svnt n hs ogottn th git

abt einstin 1

W now us to hing bout ‘ight bin’ n ‘t bin’ pocsss

Howv, bo th ocistion o tistion o ctin bin pocsss

w iscov, th w mn ncs, in phiosoph, igion npschoog, to th intuitiv min vsus th tion, ntic o discrimi-

nting min

Th lnkvt Sut, n g-o Mhnist sciptu, spks o

‘isciminting min’ n n ‘intuitiv min,’ which hv unmistkb

simiitis to th ttibuts givn to th t n ight bins, spctiv

accoing to this Sut, it is bcus o th isciminting min (which

is so c th thinking o intctu min) tht n objctiv wo

vovs Th isciminting min is pot s nc n mgicin with th objctiv wo s his stg Th intuitiv min, howv, is th

wis jst who tvs with th mgicin n cts upon his mptinss

n tnsinc — n obsrvr.



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Th intuitiv min (now ssocit with th non-ominnt ight bin) p-

tks o th univsit o ‘univs min’ n is on with this univs

(non-oc) min b son o its pticiption in ‘tnscnnt inti-

gnc’ n t th sm tim is on with th mind-sstm (th oc min) b its comphnsion o intit knowg (gnt b th iscimi-

nting min)2

This is consistnt with th sttmnt b d Jhning tht th uncon-

scious (which compiss th intuitiv n univs min) is th g

sph, which incus within it th sm sph o th conscious (th

isciminting min) bcus vthing conscious hs n unconscious

pimin stg Th intuitiv min sits btwn th univs min n

th iniviu’s isciminting min

accoing to this Sut, th univs min tnscns iniviu-

tion n imits; n is voi o psonit It is ik gt ocn, its

suc u b wvs n sugs cus b th ctivitis o th iscimi-

nting min Th isciminting min hs bn ccus o ‘iing’ th

c o univs min — ocing th univs min to p vit o pts

s ctos Consqunti, th univs min hs bcom th stog n

cing hous o th ccumut mnt poucts n ctions o th

vious ctos Nivn, ccoing to this Sut, is chiv b ‘gtting i

o th isciminting min’ Howv, th csstion o th iscimintingmin cnnot tk pc unti th hs bn ‘tuning-bout’ in th p-

st st o consciousnss3 dos this u to tuning bout om th t

bin to th ight bin?

Th Sungm Sut, noth g-o Mhnist sciptu, scibs

somthing simi — it intiis both ‘thinking min’ n n ‘intuitiv

min’ accoing to this Sut, nightn psons isc th us o thi

thinking mins evn thn, th pct intignt bcus th p-

phn knowg, ‘not b mns o thi thinking mins, but ict b intuition’ Th intuitiv min, ccoing to this Sut, is not nightn b

somthing s; it is ‘s-nightning’ Th tu ssnc o ou conscious-

nss is ou ‘nightn intuition’ This wonu intuition, th Sut ss,

bis in tnquiit prmting vrwhr throughout th phnomn words

nd univrss.4 In oth wos, th intuitiv min is non-oc (s it pns

into th ‘univs min’) It is with th ‘ttinmnt o th ssnti intuitiv

min’ tht th intuitiv min’s nightning ntu is known

Hnc, ou n to pinc th wokings o th intuitiv min to

know o its mstious intignc bcus unik ntic thinking th

thought pocsss cnnot b tc — it (i th ight bin) is pciv

s unconscious o ‘bck bo’ b th thinking min (nom ssocit

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The Intuitive Mind’s Perception

accoing to th Sungm Sut, phsic sns pcption is b its v

ntu imit It ss tht th objctiv wo iss om th min its

Tking ths mnisttions o th min s bing w go on iscimint-ing thm n chishing th uism o ‘this’ (i n ttibut) n ‘tht’ (i

its compmnt ttibut) Th mutipicit o objcts, howv, hs no

it in its n is ik m It is not unti iscimintion is gottn i

o tht th ct tht ‘ things mpt, unbon n without inpnnt

istnc’ cn b ppcit In ignonc things pciv n in p-

ct knowg th not prcivd , th Sut ss Objcts n th wo

nith ist no o not ist — it pns on ou m o nc

Ov tim, th Sut ss, sntint bings hv bn st b mis-tking th ntu o thi min to b th sm s th ntu o n oth

objct Thi mins bcm bwi b out objcts n th pcption

o thi sight chng to conom to th imnsions o its visu i n

to bcom imit stict ccoing to out conitions I ou n to s

things b ou tu min, ss this Sut, so pct univsiz wi

ou min bcom tht ‘vn t th point o sing hi th kingoms

o th univs wi b sn’ 5

W must b cu to istinguish btwn th pcption o ou s

n th intinsic pcption o sight b ou nightn min tht is con-

scious o th ib pcption o th s Though th m b gs

o iumintion btwn bightnss n knss, intrinsic prcption possss-

s no intis (in oth wos no compmnt pis o ttibuts

iscn) accoing to th Sungm Sut, s soon s consciousnss (i

ivgnt wnss) pps, thn such phnomn s sight, spc, mo-

tion tc, wi b mnist; n s soon s this consciousnss ispps,

such phnomn so ispp This isciminting consciousnss hs

‘no oiginit o its own,’ in oth wos it is ivtiv; it is n iusivmnisttion vop b ou snso sstms

Divided and Indivisible Realities

Mtt Bnco, nown pschoogist, scibs two ntgonizing mos

o bing: iviing on (th spitting n poizing ogic o ou iscimi-

nting consciousnss) n n inivisib on (it s it is, pio to n i-

vision b isciminting consciousnss) accoing to d Jhning, fu’s

‘tu pschic it’ coms ptt cos to wht Bnco wou scib sou ‘scon mo o bing’ — wht h cs ‘Inivisib rit’



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Symmetric Logic of the ‘Unconscious’ Right Brain

Unconscious thought opts with sstmtic ogic stuctu o its own

In oth wos, it hs its own intn ogic — which is int om th

ogic us b consciousnss It uss smmtic ogic, ccoing to Bnco6 Using this ogic, th oin concpts o cus n ct; tim n spc

ov-tun W conont with n bsnc o mutu contic-

tion n ngtion; n timssnss

accoing to Jhning, pschonsts hv tn to ocus on vi-

ous ti spcts o fu’s wok whi isging th unmnt n

istubing impictions o th i tht th min (in this contt, th con-

scious t bin) woks within mwok o timssnss n spcss-

nss (i within th nvionmnt o th intuitiv ight bin n th ‘uni-vs min’)

Unconscious thinking units o uniis things which o ‘oin

thinking’ istinct n spt rtions within th unconscious

smmtric , o instnc: ‘M is i nt om C,’ o ‘a is intic to

B’; th min tu whn th invt To us mthmtic tmino-

og, th ‘commuttiv’

Th ‘unconscious’ is chctis b n incsing pvnc o sm-

mt at th ‘suc’ th is mitu o smmtic n smmtic

ogic (i both commuttiv n non-commuttiv options pp) but

th ‘p’ ou go into th unconscious, th mo smmtic it bcoms

Bnco istinguish i nt ‘stt’ in th min — th ‘p’ th uncon-

scious, th high th g o smmt

Bnco so not tht th ‘unconscious’ ws timss, pcss, uss

smbos n img, pposition, unb to istinguish btwn h n

ui it (o nts) n btwn th pt n th who; n uss

combintion o smmtic n smmtic ogic7 It wi b immit

notic tht th ttibuts o th unconscious scib b Bnco intic to th chctistics o th ight bin not in vious pi-

mnts cit pvious

Logic of the Unconscious

Smmtic ogic bsic quts n ttibut o popt with its cont

o nti-popt; in oth wos yin = yng I th two vnts, a n B,

smmtic ogic ows ou to s tht i a is bo B, thn B is bo a Th

o o th vnts is not impotnt in smmtic ogic Th option o th ogic wou tho b scib s ‘commuttiv’ fo mp, in th

ithmtic option o ition, 1 + 2 = 2 + 1 In oth wos, th option

o ition is commuttiv On th oth hn, ‘1 — 2’ is not qu to ‘2 — 1’

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Experiencing Superspace in Our Minds

In supsmmt tho (in mon phsics) th two sts o ou

imnsions On st is commuttiv n th oth st non-commuttiv

Th two sts o imnsions, whn combin, constitut wht is c ‘su-pspc’ accoing to phsicists, it is v h to visuis this gomti-

c bcus w hv no ict conscious pinc o non-commuttiv

gomt Howv, consiing tht th unconscious (ccoing to Bnco)

uss combintion o smmtic commuttiv ogic n smmtic non-

commuttiv ogic, w shou not b supis i supspc is pinc

s pt o ou p unconscious n in ms

The One

accoing to Bnco, in smmtic ogic th pt n th who int-

chngb; csss issov into incsing g whos, unti w

iv t ‘inivisib it’: h th ininit o things is in mstious w

uc to on sing thing 8

This cn b unstoo whn w ct on ptic n its ntng

nti-cot ptic In quntum phsics, w know tht whn th pti-

c is istub in ctin w, its nti-cot ptic instntnous

chngs in convs w — vn i it ws on th oth si o th g

It is s i th ptic n its nti-cot ptic w sing ntit vn

though th m b g o ight s pt This impis tht spc-

tim is n iusion

Th (Mhnist) lnkvt Sut cims tht th intuitiv min

ptks o th ‘univs min’ — which is otn scib in th Sut s

‘prfct unit’ — so imping n bsnc o spctim9

Nuoscintists, eugn ’aquii n anw Nwbg, om th

Univsit o Pnnsvni, hv sst tht th is in mstic -

pinc common to humnit tht th c th pinc o bsoutunitr bing10

Effect of the Discriminating Mind on the One

dhning gus tht bcus o iscimintion, it is spit into oppo-

sits Mtt-Bnco viws th min s nmic isciminto n cssi-

i ev scon th humn min is cssiing things into ctgois Th

oin ‘ogic’ thinking ctivit is constnt ing with combintions

o tis: it cogniss n mks propositions to its bout on thing, n-oth thing, n th rtion btwn thos two things Most o ths -

tions smmtric , o instnc: ‘Simon is th th o dvi,’ o ‘a is

pt o B’; th convs o o such tions is not intic to it i it is

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This isciminting consciousnss is tpic humn phnomnon ‘I o

not know how n wh it cm into bing,’ ss dhning ‘But I m con-

vinc tht it p in uncs ou bing-in-th-wo Ou isciminting

consciousnss utomtic comps us to iscimint n cssi thspcptions “fin o o?” — This is th qustion to which ou iscimi-

nting consciousnss unmitting tis to in n nsw Whnv w

t to istn to pic o music, to contmpt nscp o wok o t,

som “isciminting” qustion pops up n istubs ou gn imps-

sion Th is humn n to t to tiv som om o ict contct

with inivisib it, bon th iviing ctgois o isciminting

consciousnss’

Thus ou smmtic isciminting consciousnss ivis inivis-

ib it B its spitting ction, isciminting consciousnss gmnts

it This cumbing cscs in nv-ning pocss (o smmt

bking) Consqunt th subjct is t with n v-gowing numb o

things Wht ws oigin on n inivisib s pt into ptho

o mnts tht tpots ininit B stbishing tions btwn

int mnts in ou mins, w t to cmnt th countss ccks in

inivisib it tht ou isciminting consciousnss cus

accoing to Bnco, tions o ist in th inivisib it, but

ths ‘tions’ int om th smmtic tions w mii with W cnnot rprsnt thm: in o to o so w wou hv to sm-

mtis thm, to mk thm it into ou w-known isciminting — n

uctiv — schms To som tnt thn, inivisib it is ik iving

bo — mov pt o it n th pt is

‘Good’ and ‘Bad’

ldou show tht mmmin bins ng so tht incoming sn-

so inomtion coct t th thmus gos though th ow binstuctu in th imbic sstm, c th mg, ist bo ching th

nocot — ong consi th st o conscious, cognitiv soning Th

mg, which is stong ssocit with motion, ns initi goo/

b, ppoch/voi sponss n tiggs n utonomic spons whn it

pcivs tht This initi spons, howv, cn b ovin b th

nocot’s cognitiv pocssing11

antonio dmsio bivs tht th humn bin sms to hv vov

to vo quick, intuitiv jugmnt ist, oow on tws b sow,

cognitiv, conscious pocssing12 Th , in ct, two mg in ou

bin, on insi th t bin n th oth insi th ight bin ech

bin hmisph, tho, hs its own mg switch

fo th ut min it is gn v i icut to suspn th iscimi-




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nting ctivit o consciousnss, n to b just w; mittion m po-

vi conition in which this p-conscious wnss cn b cov,

dhning ss

Dual Process Models

Whth w scib it s ight vs t bin, isciminting vs intuitiv

min o thinking/ntic/tion vs intuitiv min; w tking bout

u-pocss mos du pocss mos o humn thinking bcoming

mo wi ccpt in contmpo minstm pschoog H is

summ o incs btwn intuitiv n ntic thinking13

Unconscious Intuitive Thinking Conscious Analytical Thinking

fst n otss Sow n otu

Pocss is unintntion n

is utomtic cu This

vincs n bsnc o pson

‘wi’

Pocss is intntion n is

conscious conto — n cis

o ‘ wi’

Pocss is gn inccssib,

on suts show up conscious

enti pocss cn b conto n

viw in consciousnss

Pttn mtching, thought is

mtphoic, hoistic

Smbo mnipution, thought is

tuth psving, ntic

Common to mmms Uniqu to humns ov g 2 n

phps som ngug-tin ps

Contt pnnt Contt inpnnt

Ptom pnnt — i

incusiv to th bin n bo tht houss it

Ptom inpnnt — pocsss

cn b tnsmitt to oth uoowing ognisms o mchins

In oth wos, pincs cn b

si communict to oths Th

inomtion is ‘potb’

Pschoogists s tht th intuitiv spct o thinking pps to b

voutioni o n mo stbish thn th ntic spct Mn

mmms monstt pinc-bs motion-t jugmnts,

but w i n monstt ntic soning ik humns14 In ition,

humn innts c vop thi biit to mk pinc-bs mo-

tion-t jugmnts w bo th vop ntic biitis15

In voution tms ntic thinking pps to b sti in -



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tiv mbonic stg o vopmnt comp to intuitiv thinking

Intuitiv ning, thn, m b th dfut st o humn ning16 Whi

th wos us in th u pocss mos imp tht intuitiv thinking is

unconscious, s comp with th conscious, this m not b compt ccut accoing to Guino, it might b mo ccut to to intui-

tiv thinking pocsss s ‘supconscious…bcus th govn conscious

pocsss without pping in thm’17



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C H a P T e r 3

Th Intignt, Intuitiv ‘Unconscious’

In Wison ss tht it is w-ttst ct tht mkb numb o

th wo’s istinguish scintists n mthmticins hv m thiinvntiv iscovis o sov som scintiic pobms in mnt stts

tht o not sm to hv bn nom, vbizing consciousnss (no-

m ssocit with th ominnt t bin) d Jons Sk, th vioo-

gist who iscov th ist vccin ginst poiomitis ss, ‘It is ws

with citmnt tht I wk up in th moning woning wht m intui-

tion wi toss up to m, ik gits om th s I wok with it n on

it It’s m ptn’

In ct, Wbst’s iction ins intuition s ‘quick n in-

sight; immit pphnsion o cognition o th pow o cut o t-

tining to dirct knowdg o cognition without vint tion thought n

innc’ [emphsis ]

The Unconscious Problem Solver

Wi im Jms sks: ‘Wh o w spn s stining t c tin sci-

ntiic o pctic pobm, but in vin — thought using to vov

th soution w si? an wh, som , wking in th stt with ou

ttntion mis w om th qust, os th nsw sunt into oumins s css s i it h nv bn c o — suggst possib

b th ows on th bonnt o th in ont o us, o possib b noth-

ing tht w cn iscov? I son cn giv us i thn, wh i sh not



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o so soon?’1

Hni Poinc, whn tking bout th ctiv pocss, ss, ‘Otn

whn on woks t h qustion, nothing goo is ccompish t th

ist ttck Thn on tks ong st n sits own nw to th wokduing th ist h-hou, s bo, nothing is oun, n thn o

sun th cisiv i psnts its to th min’ This squnc o vnts

is not on vint in scintiic qusts — simi sciptions oun in

igious qusts — o mp, s scib b (Sint) Ths o avi o

(Sint) John o th Coss In igion, it m b scib s ‘insight’; in sci-

ntiic cics it m b scib s ctivit

rnown phsicist, Hmhotz, mitt tht otn his is -

iv sun, without n ot on his pt, whi tking s wks ov

woo his in sunn wth Phsicist lo Kvin pot civing

inspition in simi ws H somtims h to vis pntions o

uctions tht cm to him in sh o intuition Guss scib how

soution cm to him o n ithmtic thom tht h h spnt s

ting to pov — ik sun sh o ightning th i hppn to b

sov Hni Poinc, th mous mthmticin, ss tht th pp-

ncs o sun iumintions obvious inictions o ong cous o

pvious unconscious wok Bo n t, th h to b conto

conscious wok, but in btwn ws som mstious pocss In ttto fnch scintiic joun in 1886, ing to n ithmtic thom,

th poo o which u him o s, Guss wits, ‘Two s go, I suc-

c, not on ccount o m pinu ots, but b th gc o Go lik

sun sh o ightning, th i hppn to b sov’2

The ‘Unconscious’ Calculator

eni Bton, th novist, ss tht sh civs ictions om wht sh

tms h ‘unmin’ tht ‘th sto must b 40,000 wos ong’ n sunough, th book ns most to th wo Th unconscious pps to

possss min-bogging computtion pow Th mn css in his-

to to iustt this as n mp, t’s ook t Zh Cobun

Zh Cobun ws bon in 1804, th son o m o Vmont, USa

Whn on si, not t b to o wit, th oung Zh bgn giving

pubic monsttions o his mthmtic skis On o th most spc-

tcu ts t to th numb 4,294,967,297, which unti shot bo

his tim ws thought to b pim b mthmticins lonh eu, on

o th gtst mthmticins in histo, bouious ccut on pp

tht it ws ivisib b 641 Whn Cobun, ignont o this, ws givn

th sm pobm h swit iv t 641 ‘b th m option o his

min’ Th signiicnt tu bout Cobun is tht h ws tot



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unb to pin how h h ch his concusion Hving nv h o-

m uction, h ws nti ignont o mnt mthmtic us,

n cou not vn pom th simpst mutipiction n ivision sums

on pp evthing ws on in his h, wh h it sw th com-puttion om up c n otss bo him3

Brain Drain

Tumn Sto cou ccut in his h in 60 scons mutipiction

sum whos nsw consist o 36 igus, whn on 10 s o Howv,

whn h wnt on to possion c in mthmtics, h ost this mn-

t git Simi, rich Wht, nintnth cntu achbishop o

dubin, though bing ccuting gnius in chihoo ost th bi-

it t untking om uction Wh is this so? dvi Kis os

cu

Kis not tht nov skis, such s music, which pocss ini-

ti in th ight bin, migt ov (t tnsiv pctic) to th t

bin This hs bn not in sion n eeG stuis 4 Ov-pcticing

skis nbs n iniviu to n how to mo tio us (o th ight

bin) in th mo conint conto omin o intio us (o th t

bin) Howv, whn th skis o migt to th t bin, th ctivit

n th computtion pow iminishs, phps bcus ict ccss toth univs min (vi th intuitiv ight bin) iminishs signiicnt

The ‘Unconscious’ Idea Generator

Th gt russin compos, Tchikovsk, ss tht th gm o utu

composition coms to him sun n unpct H ss, ‘I ogt

vthing n bhv ik m mn; vthing within stts pusing

n quiving; on thought oows noth’ H scibs this s mgic

pocss which occus to him whn h is in ‘somnmbuistic stt’ Bhmsto on biogph tht whn th inspitions o his most mous compo-

sitions cm to him ‘th coth in th ight oms, hmonis, n o-

chsttion Msu b msu th inish pouct is v to him’

rich Stuss, th compos, so ss tht whn th is ow

in him, ‘th nti music, msu b msu’ oow It sm to

him tht h ‘ws ictt to b two who int Omnipotnt entitis

…n ws conscious o bing i b mo thn n th Pow’ Puccini

scib in simi tms H ss tht th music o th op, Mm

Butt, ws ‘ictt’ to him b Go H ss, ‘I ws m instumnt

in putting it on pp n communicting it to th pubic’

This chos th viw tht nom pop with intct bins hv -

pincs which mk thm s i th h mo thn on min o on



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pson in thi bois — ik spit-bin ptints Gog eiot to J W

Coss tht in o wht sh consi h bst witings, somthing tht

ws ‘not hs’ took possssion o h, n tht sh t h own pson-

it to b ‘m th instumnt though which this spiit, s it w, wscting Th Gmn pot Goth pot tht h wot his ist nov,

Wth, ‘most unconscious, ik somnmbuist,’ n ws mz

whn h is wht h h on

‘Inn istning’ is th tm tht is otn us whn th ctiv is

output om wht sms to b noth pson In mn o th pincs

th communiction vn sms to com in th om o n uib voic

Th t bin otn viws th ight bin which is iving th sou-

tions s noth min o pson — which is not om th tuth — s vi-

nc in pincs o spit-bin ptints Th iusion o unit s is

cus b th ct tht, o most o th , w nom on h th voc

t bin tking Whn th ight bin intvns, using th t bin’s

spch cnts, w ttibut th mssgs to ‘noth pson’

Dream Solutions

W know tht th ight bin tks ov whn w in m stt Th

is gnt in ms cn tho b ttibut g to th ight

bin Nis Boh, on o th ouning ths o quntum phsics, mto pnt sstm s mo o toms, which to th ‘Boh mo’ o

tomic stuctu n Nob Piz Th boto pocu o poucing

insuin on mss bsis ws iscov in m b Si fick Bnting

Otto lowi mt th sign o n pimnt; wnt to th boto

t n pom th pimnt n gnt th suts o th th-

o o chmic tnsmission o nvous impus which won him th 1936

Nob Piz in Phsioog n Micin Th most popu song in histo

‘yst’ ws civ b Bt Pu McCtn in m — chos nmo

Ramanujan

Sinivs rmnujn ws bon in Ini, n Ms, in 1887 B th g

o 10, it bcm c tht rmnujn ws not ik th oth chin as

chi, h h iv eu’s intit btwn tigonomtic unc-

tions n ponntis at civing itt om uction, h wok

s junio ck in th Pot Tust o Ms H thn mi som o th

suts to his ‘ms’ to th w-known mthmticins, hoping o

contct with oth mthmtic mins On ws civ b th biint

Cmbig mthmticin, Go H Th tt contin 120 tho-

ms tot unknown to Wstn mthmticins On ing th tt,




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H ws stunn H cm to th concusion tht it cou on b wittn

b mthmticin o th highst css In tms o mthmtic skis,

H t t rmnujn vn high thn dvi Hibt, univs

cognis s on o th gtst Wstn mthmticin o th nintnthcntu

Unotunt, nith H no rmnujn w intst in th

thinking pocss b which rmnujn iscov ths incib tho-

ms, spci whn ths thoms cm pouing out o his ‘ms’ with

such qunc H not, ‘It sm iicuous to wo him bout how

h h oun this o tht known thom, whn h ws showing m h

ozn nw ons most v ’ rmnujn us to s tht th goss

o Nmkk inspi him with th omu in ms H kpt not p

nt to his b to wit own th omu tht h cim w v to

him in ms On th spot, rmnujn cou cit comp thoms in

ithmtic tht wou qui comput to pov Woking in tot iso-

tion om th min cunts o his i, h ws b to iv 100 s’

woth o Wstn mthmtics on his own Jonthn Bowin ss, ‘H h

such o things tht th just ow out o his bin’5

W know tht th t bin is ctiv o most o th n whn w

go to sp, ctivit shits to th ight bin In ms, ight bin ctivit

is vintOn intsting spct o rmnujn’s pows is tht h otn took

hous o vn months to bouious vi n pov wht h otn -

civ in n instnt, n tht somtims his insight tun out to b wrong !

Is iv t b intuition, just s is iv om ibt conscious

thinking, cn contin os

The Method

Garbage-in Garbage-out Th mo c, compt n intnt ou omut qustion n i-

ct it to th unconscious, th mo quick n ctiv th unconscious

cn com up with n nsw to it a sopp qustion wou gnt h-

bk soution: gbg-in gbg-out eos in omuting th qustion

o in th inomtion suppi wi gnt soutions tint with ths

os This givs us n intsting insight into th ntu o unconscious

pocssing — it woks ik quntum supcomput using int tp

o ogic It os not in its hv n contnt, but it inks up with contnt(vn non-oc contnt) whn qui to sov pobm

Th intuitiv min is qunt ssocit with univs min in

mtphsic n igious ittu Ou oc (isciminting) min cn-

not thom th pocsss tht go on in th univs min-bin To voi



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cognitiv ovo, it tts it s bck bo Is this unconscious pocssing

going on in th univs min-bin? This qustion wi b po in

t chpt, incuing to wht tnt scintists biv tht th univs, s

who, opts s supcomput

Intent

Th stngth o ou intnt cts th pioit th intignt unconscious

ssigns to pobm Th high th pioit th g th up

in th min to pocss th qustion Hni Poinc, in n ss on mth-

mtic ctivit, si tht ‘th ppnc o sun iumintion ws

mnist sign o ong, unconscious wok’ Stuss ss, ‘…n nt -

si n i pupos combin with intns inn sov bings suts

dtmin concntt thought is tmnous oc…’ Hnc, stong

intnt is impotnt in obtining ctiv soution

Scientific and Religious Use of Unconscious Processing

This unconscious pocssing o qustions gnt b th conscious

min hs bn ppi not on b scintists, musicins n tists; but

so mstics n high inunti igious iguhs ik Sihth

Gutm (th Buh) who h intnt sch o th ‘tuth’ o si

s, using v w -in qustions as sut o conscious init i-t pocss, mstious pocss poucs th soution to ou pobm

in sh, om out o it nowh (th unconscious is ‘pcss’ n

‘timss’) in th om o igious iumintion, it img, scin-

tiic unstning

eis How wok intns o sv s on schm to invnt

‘ockstitch’ swing mchin n vntu succ t h h night-

m which suggst th soution n th mon ‘swing mchin’ ws

bon amus Mozt wot tht it ws on occsions whn h ws nti on n o ‘goo ch’ tht his is ow bst n most bunnt

‘Whnc n how th com, I know not,’ h ss H gos on to wit

tht, …povi I m not istub, m subjct ngs its, bcoms

mthoiz n in, n th who, though it b ong, stns most

compt n inish in m min, so tht I cn suv it, ik in pictu

o butiu sttu, t gnc a this invnting, this poucing, tks

pc in psing iv m’

ru Kiping g tht th k to gining hp om this inn hp-

ws ‘not to think conscious,’ but to ‘it’ in vi athough tnc

stts common ssocit with ogis n hpnotists, w pinc

tnc stts v — th tim just bo ing sp n th tim just

bo wking-up Ths c th ‘hpnogogic’ n ‘hpnopompic’




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stts, spctiv, b pschoogists Th phiosoph n mthmticin,

Gog Spnc Bown, cs tht ‘to iv t th simpst tuth, s Nwton

i, quis s o contmption Not ctivit, not soning, not ccut-

ing, not ing, not tking, not mking n ot, not thinking — simp bing in min wht it is tht on ns to know’ 6

Reducing Errors in the Intuitive Process

Intuition must not b conus with sopp ntic thinking — which

m b th sut o ut ogic o mispcptions Intuition quis t

to wok with, just s th conscious us o ogic quis dt coction

is vit to th intuitiv pocss But s not i this t must b vi-

i bo submitting it to th unconscious Intuition is not ws coct

bcus th initi t suppi m b inccut o incompt Hnc,

both input n output must b vii b th conscious; both p n post-

pocssing viiction must b untkn Th is tht bubb-up into

consciousnss must b min using ict obsvtion, ition t

coction, ogic, n tsting

Intuitiv-omint pop otn o not tst thi intuitions Th m

opt s though thi intuitions th bsout tuth Sinc intuitions

cn b wong bcus o incoct o incompt input, n sinc ths po-

p cn bsout ctint o thi coctnss, th opn thmsvs tomking mistks eos wi occu in unconscious pocssing i th poc-

ss its is not minist pop

accoing to Shi d n lngn-fo J, it is possib, bs on -

sch, to tin inivius to impov thi intuitiv biitis Th bsic

stps, ccoing to thm, sm to b quiting (o stiing) th min, ning

to ocus ttntion, n opting non-jugmnt cptiv ttitu which

ows intuitiv thoughts to nt consciousnss without intnc7 It is

obvious tht ths stps v simi to tht opt in mittiv tch-niqus Mittiv ‘insight’ n ctiv insights in Scinc n th ats

bsic invov th sm pocsss

Visual Stories

Intuition otn ws on visu n oth oms o img to communict

its output in th om o ‘stois’ Th mn mps g ivn

in this chpt Kku ist iscov tht th cbon toms o th

bnzn mocu ink up into ing though wtching th ms o

i t nsom thmsvs in his min’s into snks tht tun oun

n bit thi own tis Visu output sms mo ppopit to th tp

o (smmtic) ogic th unconscious uss n to conv g mount

o inomtion icint to th conscious Smbos cn communict



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is which m soun hopss s-conticto i vbiz — tk

th Toist yin-yng smbo which psnts th ‘intpnnc o

opposits,’ o mp

Role of Conscious Analytical Thinking

Th gowing istion in mon phsics tht w iv in mutiimn-

sion mutivs ocs us to ic vision o th g supioit

o consciousnss, ss d Jhning Bnjmin libt’s pimnts v

tht conscious wnss is pc b unconscious pocsss W

tho oc to concu tht unconscious pocsss initit ou con-

scious pincs appnt vount cts, which pp to b initit

b wi conscious, oun to b initit unconscious bo n

wnss o wnting to ct Nvthss, w cn conscious ‘vto’ n

cision m unconscious accoing to dni Wgn, sinc much o

wht w o sms to suc om unconscious cuss, conscious ‘ wi’

m b n iusion

Conscious Will

dni Wgn ss tht conscious wi is n pinc, not cus Th

thoughts tht w ttch to ou ctions not ncssi th tu cuss o

th ctions, n thi cus connctions is somthing w scib to thmIt pps tht th pinc o wi occus though sstm tht psnts

th i o vount ction to consciousnss n so poucs th ction

Th i cn occu bo o t th ction Whn pop oc to ct

pi it usu occus t It hs bn oun tht th pinc o ‘wi’

occus min whn th i occus bo th ct8

Our Sluggish Consciousness

Whn ctions oc to b st, consciousnss is pptu t Thsuggishnss o consciousnss bcoms ppnt whn pop o things

st It tpic tks on 100 miiscons to ct to stimuus but it

m tk up to 500 miiscons to bcom conscious o hving spon9

Conscious pocsss mo ib n sttgic, but th so tk mo

tim This ‘pts-to-who’ ntic ppoch o ntic consciousnss

must ncssi cicummbut oun th subjct Th ppoch is

mo bouious pocss but hs th vntg o gnting inomtion

tht cn b si communict to oth psons, unik intuitiv jug-

mnts — which pp to com out om bck bo Th sownss o con-

sciousnss, ccoing to dni Wgn, suggsts tht much o wht w s

n o invovs th option o pconscious mnt pocsss i w m

bgin to ct to stimuus vn bo w conscious w o it10




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Consciousnss n ction sm to p ct-n-mous gm ov tim

athough w m b conscious o sis o ctions bo th p-

om, it is s though th conscious min thn sips out o touch Th tim

intv bo n t th ction in libt’s stu inicts tht conscious-nss pops in n out o th pictu n os not sm to b oing

nthing

Nisbtt n Wison sks, ssuming o th momnt tht unconscious

intuitiv thinking is in ou pim sstm o thinking, wht pt thn

os conscious ntic thinking ctu p? It m b tht th rsut o

thinking pocss, not th thinking pocss its, is wht mnists s

conscious, cognitiv thought11 Wht pps s cognitiv soning m b

mo ccut scib s tioniztion t th vnt12

fo mp, pticipnts in iogu m ch stt position, p-

hps tht th oppos botion, n thn poc to pin cognitiv gu-

mnts, ik w, justiing thi position But vn whn skiu n

n opponnt ts v sing on o ths gumnts, th potgo-

nist m conc t, but chngs his min Wh? It is pobb

bcus ou position on th issu ws not sut o cognitiv soning in

th ist pc — it ws n intuitiv jugmnt Wht pp to b n c-

cut cognitiv pntion o th potgonist’s soning ws in ct jus-

tiiction (t th vnt) o n intuitiv jugmnt — m without knowingct how o wh13 Poni ss, ‘… knowg is ith tcit o oot

in tcit knowg a who picit knowg is unthinkb’14

Contributions of the Right Brain to Science

dvi Bohm ss w must chng th ointtion o phsics H ss w

must tun phsics oun — inst o stting with pts n showing how

th wok togth, w shou stt with th who yt it is vint tht

without intuitiv n hoistic pocssing b th ight bin, Scinc counot hv vop Th mn mps cit bov n swh show

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C H a P T e r 4

Compmnt Thinking & fing

ev mjo vnc in ou unstning o th ntu o thunivs hs bn pc b contiction

ron Cown, quoting anw Stoming

(Hv Univsit), 2004 1

Though out th nintnth cntu n th pt o th twntith

cntu phsicists w ic bting whth ight ws ssnti p-

tic o wvik phnomnon Hmn n rhingo not tht, ‘Th

pcui thing bout this bt ws tht both sis cou pouc soun

mthmtics n pimnts tht th oth si coun’t pin, but ni-

th si ws b to ispov th opposing point o viw’2

Whn Nis Boh intouc th pincip o compmntit in

th twntith cntu, it ws on o th cognitions tht it is too

ich to b qut psnt b n on mo o pigm

Phsicist, ew Wittn, nots tht histo tchs us tht conci-

ing incomptibiitis btwn thois is goo w to mk un-

mnt pogss einstin’s tho o spci tivit cm om wish to

conci two outstning thois o th , nm Mw’s tho o cticit n Nwtonin gvit Quntum i tho cm om n -

ot to conci non-tivistic quntum mchnics with spci tivit

Th most ching vncs in th twntith cntu hv com bout



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bcus pvious thois wn’t comptib with on noth Th tim-

smmtic thois o both rtivit n Quntum Phsics conict with

th tim-smmtic thois o Chos n Compit thois In ct,

v mjo pt o Phsics conicts with th oth t unmnt vTh ctint o einstin’s ‘bock univs,’ iv om tivit tho,

conicts with th unctint in quntum phsics Nvthss, th p-

p to b compmnt thois

On th on hn, tivit n quntum tho ic-

oncib; t on th oth, th mutu pnnt

dvi Pt, Phsicist 3

ech thsis pps to b stin to mt its cont o ntithsis (its

mio img) in tim Tking positiv ppoch, w m s tht th n-

tithsis is m vic to ng th thsis so tht it is b to pin n

pict obsv vnts mo ccut einstin tn Nwton’s tho-

is, who in tun tn Gio’s n Kp’s thois Wiim Bk

stts, ‘Without contis, th is no pogssion’ an so it is tht stu-

nts tught to citiciz fo with th cont viw coms pogss —

sizing o knowg Tking ngtiv ppoch, w cou b ism

tht th wi nv b on soution W wi nv ch th tgt — on cicummbut oun it Th rmn ( Hinu sciptu) ss, ‘Th

wo must suffr un th pis o opposits ov’

Hegelian Cycles — Knowledge breeding Knowledge

Su, hous is , but wht os it ook ik? Tht pns

on whth ou viw it om th ont o th bck Su, n

cton is , but is it wv o ptic? Tht pns on wht sot o pimnt ou sign to tct it

Su, ou tho o th univs woks ptt w But

it’s not th on tho tht woks w, n noth on, in

som css might wok btt, vn though t oth tims it

woks wos Th opposit o gt tuth is noth gt

tuth

Tom Sigi, Phsicist 4

Scinc pps to b subjct to ‘hgin ccs’ ech hgin cc con-

sists o ‘poposition stt’ in which thsis is om n stbish (I

ou mmb, th t bin h bn scib s ‘poposition’) Thn

soon o t it is conont b compmnt ntithsis — noth



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poposition stt which is cont to th thsis Thn it movs into n

pposition stt ( chctistic o ight bin pocsss) which cops-

s into tnsthsis — noth poposition stt — in chonoogic s-

qunc a ‘tnsthsis’ is in in this book s thsis which concisth thsis with its ntithsis But it is not m snthsis o th thsis n

th ntithsis It is nw w o ooking t things Th thsis n th ntith-

sis thn om spciic imiting css o th tnsthsis In th nt gn-

tion o hgin cc, th tnsthsis is intii s th thsis, which gin

biucts t tim, into thsis n its ntithsis

a viw o th histo o scintiic thought n phiosoph wi v

it moving in (wht I c) hgin ccs a simp mp is whn pho-

tons w thought to b wvs ( poposition stt — thsis), n thn

ptics ( poposition stt — th ntithsis); thn th two w consi-

compmnt un Boh’s compmntit tho (n pposition

stt) n subsqunt ‘wvics’ un Bogi n dvi Bohm’s tho-

is ( poposition stt — tnsthsis)

The Complementary Brain

Just s in th ognistion o th phsic wo with which it intcts, it hs

bn popos b Stphn Gossbg, om th dptmnt o Cognitiv

n Nu Sstms o Boston Univsit, tht th bin is ognis toob pincips o compmntit In ct, h ss, it cn b gu tht

‘known compmntr proprtis (in th brin) xist bcus of th nd to procss

compmntr tps of informtion in th nvironmnt ’5

Compmnt spcts o th phsic wo tnst

into compmnt bin signs o coping with this wo

Stphn Gossbg, Nuoscintist 6

Geometry of Knowledge

lt us us gomtic mo to unstn hgin cc I thsis is

psnt b sing in, thn its conicting n compmnt ntith-

sis wou b noth in which is othogon (i 90 gs) to it I th

thsis psnts th ngth, thn its ntithsis psnts th bth —

nw spti imnsion I th thsis (ngth) n its ntithsis (bth)

imgin to om squ, th ‘tnsthsis’ (i nw thsis which c-

oncis n t th sm tim tnscns th oigin thsis n ntithsis)

wou thn b noth in othogon to this squ — th hight Th

th om cub

a pson with 3 wnss wou b b to s th cub s who a




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pson with on 1 o in wnss wou s th spt ins — two

conicting ins n on conciing in In th pst 500 s, Scinc, in

sns h 1 o in wnss — in oth wos it cou not conciv

o mo thn on tho to pin it — it insist on th on bingon This cou b scib s ‘poposition Scinc’

It’s tm unstising to in two utimt sciptions o

it whn ou’ ooking o just on

Pu dvis, Phsicist, 2002 7

Cognitiv issonnc iss pimi in th ntic t bin whn

conont b two qu n opposit thss This is unpsnt to th t

bin — so it tis to sov it b ignoing on o th thss n tion-

izing th choic In this w, it cn gt on with pn o ction a ok on

th o vs ou woning in which iction to go I ou cnnot ci

ou wou b t th ok ov! I ou o sct on, ou igno th oth

Smmt is bokn W go though simi ccs in ou i (non-b-

stct) thought pocsss

In this contt, th ight bin’s spti intignc is signiicnt Spti

intignc incus th pcption o th spti imnsions Unik th

constict in tim imnsion o th t bin, th cubic spc tht thight bin pcivs shows tht th ight bin wi b b to ccommot

t st th ivs thois, without cognitiv issonnc, just s it is b

to pciv th spti imnsions othogon to ch oth But ‘ight

bin Scinc’ is sti in its innc Th , howv, signs to mo ight

bin ‘pposition Scinc’

Conicting thois which compmnt, which iniviu -

pin pimnt t succssu, bginning to b sn in Scinc

(Wstn) Scinc is tiv ‘oung’ With its mtution w wi s mon mo conicting, but intn s-consistnt thois which cn -

pin th sm mpiic t n pict th sm outcoms This wi

bing Scinc to wh Phiosoph is Scinc wi simp bcom mo

igoous ‘Phiosoph’ Th igo incss its utiit This mns tht th

is no bsout, -ncompssing tuth tht cn b givn b 1 tho

Mutiimnsion it is much bigg thn n pticu 1 scintiic

o igious tho Howv, pticu scintiic o igious 1 thois

o conv tiv tuths — which mpiic o pinti tstb

Ths tiv tuths hv utiit — its pictiv n pnto vu

(within th contt o pticu univs)

Thois computb within thi own imnsions, but non-com-

putb coss imnsions Whn two conicting thois conci,



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th cops into on imnsion n bcom computb within tht i-

mnsion In this cs, th is stt uction in th knowg poc-

ss — om two imnsions to on imnsion logic s-consistnc must

pc computbiit Th omism o quntum tho ows ininit mn ws to compos th quntum stt o th Univs into suppo-

sition o othogon stts I w pp this ct to knowg, it wou mn

tht mutitu o thois wou b b to pin th sm mpiic

t In oth wos, th wou not b n pivig scintiic viwpoint

Th cou b mo thn on ‘Scinc’ which is igoous nough to pin

n pict outcoms in pticu univs

Just s mthmtic sstms o n ccptb tho must b ogi-

c s-consistnt, v p univs must b ogic s-consist-

nt ech p univs is othogon (i 90 gs) to noth, just

s ch c o cub is, just s ch conicting tho is Contctu

ttibuts o two conticto ow-imnsion univss cn b ccpt-

s iomtic (i s pinti th thn thotic ttibuts) in

high-imnsion univs Howv, th cou not b obsv t th

sm tim in th ow-imnsion univs bcus o cognitiv isso-

nnc — gnt pimi b th nt ic t bin Th ight bin s

w know is pposition

Kantian Antinomies and the Limitations of a Propositional Science

antinom, tm us in ogic, mns po o unsovb contic-

tion Immnu Knt biv tht whn th ctgois o unstning

ci bov possib pinc, th otn into vious ntinomis,

o qu rtion but contrdictor viws H, son cnnot p th o o

stbishing tion tuths bcus it gos bon ‘possib pinc’ (s

gnt b th ominnt t bin)

fo mp, Knt thought tht on cou son om th ssump-tion tht th wo h bginning in tim to th concusion tht it i

not, n vic vs This ws pt o Knt’s citic pogm o tmin-

ing imits to Scinc n phiosophic inqui In mthmtic ogic,

ntinomis usu sn s issts o th om sstm in which

th is In th bov mp, th pps to b somthing inhnt

wong in sking th qustion ‘dos th wo hv bginning in tim?’

W oc to th concusion tht both nsws must b tu W must,

in it, pciv both nsws s coct, n thus hv imit to ou

knowg In sns, this is imittion in ou knowg o th uni-

vs Sihth Gutm us to nsw such qustions uing his

iscouss bcus h knw tht n ‘utimt nsw’ wou b inhnt

conticto evn Scinc givs conticto nsws whn it chs




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its imits fo mp, w to tht ctons both ptics n

wvs — n so quntum objcts Th intsting thing bout ths

contictions is tht th compmnt n intpnnt — just

ik th ‘yin’ n ‘yng’ o Chins phiosoph Whn tition scin-tiic n convntion igious thois t to conci ths contic-

tions th hv th quit o mths

Vitu mths cn b uc to th sm consistnt

pttn: inti cuci istnti concn, m it s

pi o incomptib opposits, thn in soution tht

vits nit n ows us to iv mo hppi in th

wo

anw Nwbg n eugn d’ aquii 8

Move towards an Appositional Science

Th phiosoph o Scinc pps to b chnging accoing to Tom

Sigi, th sch o n utimt phsic tho wi not pouc on n

on on pictu dint points o viw v int pictus Hv’s

Cumun V ss tht th min sson o cnt pogss in ‘sting ui-

tis’ hs bn th cognition o th istnc o int viwpoints on phsic tho o which goo o nswing som qustion9

accoing to l Smoin th cou b two thois, on wh stings

unmnt n i ins n ppoimt pictu; scon wh

th rvrs is tru H ss phsicists cit bout th possibiit tht two

thois m b just two ws o ooking t th sm thing Phsicists c

this th ‘hpothsis o uit’ accoing to him, th hpothsis o u-

it is th ccptnc tht th cou b two (opposing) ws o scibing

th sm thing10

I tht is so, this is vinc tht w moving w om poposition to n pposition Scinc — t st in mon phsics It

sms tht this mov cou not hv com bout i not o th ntu biit

o th ight bin to b in n pposition o suppos stt

Th int ms o tivit tho qu vi

o scibing ntu Th m o nc ou us pns

on th m o nc ou inhbit In th sm w, mn

int spctim signtus m tun out to b quivnt,

n w ognis phsics bs on th signtu tht sms

most snsib om ou point o viw

Tom Sigi 11

Stng Mtts



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rcnt, scintists hv oun tht two v int thois which

constuct using int numbs o spc imnsions cn b quiv-

nt Jun Mcn ist conjctu such tion11 in 1997 o 5

imnsion univs It ws t conim o mn oth univss with int numbs o imnsions b ew Wittn o th Institut

o avnc Stu in Pincton, Nw Js; n Stvn Gubs, Igo

Kbnov n an Pokov o Pincton Univsit emps o

this cosponnc now known o univss with vit o imn-

sions12 Phsicist Jcob Bknstin ss tht ‘ctus iving in on o ths

univss wou b incpb o tmining i th inhbit 5 uni-

vs scib b sting tho o 4 on scib b quntum i

tho o point ptics’

Bknstin bivs, howv, tht th structurs of thir brins might giv

thm n ovrwhming prjudic in fvor of on dscription or nothr, in just th

w tht our brins construct n innt prcption tht our univrs hs thr sp-

ti dimnsions13 Th ‘unii tho o vthing’ tht Scinc is sking

wou b mutitu o ogic iconcib (conicting) tho-

is which cn on b h togth in mutiimnsion wnss Th

imittions o knowg gnt though min in nsis th

thn ict pinc w iscuss n not mo thn 2,000 s

go b Hinus n Buhists Th jct in — ‘on soution’ mo-s n w motivt to sk th ‘tuth’ in mo ict ws

as Wc puts it, ‘fo gntions th notion tht scinti ic tho-

is psnt objctiv, inpnnt phsic it hs bn sious

chng b phiosophs o scinc In th w to who

h to such stightow (o nïv) scintiic ism among th

mn pobms with th ist position is th ct tht ‘mutip, mutu

incomptib thoris cn oftn b prsntd tht qu ccount for th givn bod

of xprimnt vidnc.’ 14

a phiosophic unctiv ppoch to sci-nc givs th impssion tht objctiv it scns out s hpoth-

ss, ing to on on tu tho In ct mutip hpothss otn

put oth, n th choic mong thm is bs on humn ctos’

Th bst tht Scinc cn giv us is mtphoic pictu

o wht’s , n whi th pictu m mk sns, it isn’t

ncssi tu In this cs, Scinc is tp o mthoog,

coction o pnto stois tht sov th mstis o

istnc n hp us cop with th chngs o i

anw Nwbg n eugn d’ aquii 15




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So is th objctiv tuth? Hon scibs objctivit though th bo-

wb o intsubjctivit, ‘Wht cn b known bout th cosmos is tht

it is ws known s subjctiv ticut wo, whos objctivit is

tiv to how it is shp b th know But this is not : its objctiv-it is so tiv to how it is intsubjctiv shp …It psupposs

pticiption, though mting n iogu, in cutu o sh t n

sh ngug (incuing th us o ngug), sh vus, noms

n bis’16

Complementary Dualities — Fascinating Maya

In th nintnth cntu (n bo) th guiing i

ws ‘gomt’ In th twntith cntu, th most uitu

pincip ws ‘smmt’ an th i o th twnt-ist

cntu, I biv, wi b ‘uit’

Tom Sigi, Phsicist 17

Th Vic sciptus c tht th phsic wo opts

un on unmnt w o M, th pincip o tivit

n uit Go is absout Unit Th iuso duistic vi h

ws is M [emphsis ]

Pmhns yognn, Mstic, 1946 18

accoing to yognn, th nti phnomn wo is un th ino-

b sw o poit; no w o phsics, chmist, o n oth scinc

is om inhnt opposit o contst pincips Phsic scinc,

tho, cnnot omut ws outsi o M In ‘h’ own omin,

M is tn n inhustib; utu scintists cn no mo thn

pob on spct t noth o h vi ininitu Scinc, tho, wi min in pmnnt u, unb to rch finit; it to iscov th

ws o n isting n unctioning cosmos but powss to tct

wht is bon

yognn wns, ‘a who cing to th cosmic iusion must ccpt its

ssnti w o poit: ow n bb; is n , n night, psu

n pin, goo n vi, bith n th This ccic pttn ssums c-

tin nguishing monoton t mn hs gon though w thousn hu-

mn biths; h bgins thn to cst hopu bon th compusions o

M’19 Though sh boom Mn m sk n scp om th ccic

mnss which bcoms incsing mningss with ch incntion

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’Vnit o vnitis! a is vnit

Wht o pop gin om th toi un th sun?

a gntion gos n gntion coms…

Th sun iss n th sun gos own a things wisom…

Th is not stisi with sing

O th i with hing

Wht hs bn is wht wi b,

an wht hs bn on is wht wi b on

Th is nothing nw un th sun

…it is n unhpp businss tht Go

hs givn humn bings [n phsicists] to b bus with

a is vnit n chsing t win’

Th Bib, eccsists 20

Thinking and Feeling vs. Perception

It is intsting tht w hv no pobm hoing conicting is in ou

hs in bstct thinking Otn w cn so hv ‘mi ings’ bout pson, vnt o thing In oth wos, w o not in it iicut to mov

into n pposition stt in bstct thinking o ing But is this so tu

o pcption n imgintion (pciving though ou min’s )?



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C H a P T e r 5

Spit rit

Th wo must su un th pis o opposits ov

rmn

Binary Splitter in the Brain

Def Jehning

Non-isciminting wnss constituts th oin conition o th

innt, spci whn h is t st, nith sping no cit, cco-

ing to d Jhning Th innt njos this non-isciminting wnssbcus t bin vopmnt (which givs is to isciminting con-

sciousnss) gs bhin ight bin vopmnt t this stg, s not

i disciminting consciousnss (s oppos to non-isciminting

wnss) pps om th v momnt tht oppositions is — spitting

pobb cospons to th first conscious ctivit This spitting, usu

consi ns mchnism, hs structuring ct, ss Jhning B it

humn pinc bcoms ‘spit,’ ivi into opposit (but compmn-

t) pos This opposition, which is b no mns psnt in th obsv

‘thing-in-its,’ is supimpos on it b (isciminting) consciousnss





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compmnt pis it suppsss on ttibut o th pi which it ins

(ogic) issonnt Pcption is tho ivn n stuctu b n

intn ogic pcui to bin n its voution histo

Everett’s Many-Minds Interpretation

Mn books on quntum mchnics hv cit Hugh evtt’s tho s

‘evtt’s Mn-Univss/Wos’ tho — suggsting tht th univs

spits into innumb pts to ccommot v outcom o th pi-

mnt in msumnt pocss dvi Bohm hs gu stong tht this

is d Witt’s intpttion o evtt’s tho evtt’s tho h i-

nt ointtion4

accoing to dvi Bohm, it is not th univs tht spits, but it is

just wnss s who tht ivis into mn pts tht not w

o ch oth ‘W pt gin wht Squis hs si — it is not tho o

mn univss, but tho o mn viwpoints o on univs evtt’s

im is not min to pin th univs, but to pin ou pcptions o

th univs evtt’s tho ts th univs to vious points o viw

tht contin within it evtt i not contmpt th spitting o

th univs Th is no mntion o spitting univss in evtt’s wok

In evtt’s viw shou not vn b c th mn-wos intp-

ttion but th, s abt n low hv suggst th “Mn-Mins”intpttion’

Th Mn-Mins intpttion ssums tht phsic it co-

spons to th tot wv unction o th univs accoing to dvi

Bohm, impicit in evtt’s intpttion is tht ch pson hs tot

min tht cn spit into mn sub-mins tht not w o ch oth

ech min cn b w o pticu bin stt cosponing to

mmo o pticu pimnt sut tht is stb n istinct om

oth mmois cosponing to int suts o th pimntI th min w in th omin o quntum mchnics, th wv unc-

tion wou b in in supposition evtt thn ssums nom

pocss in which th oigin min spits into two istinct mins ch ob-

sving mirror img o th oth’s pimnt sut Whn on min

obsvs ‘pus 1’ th oth min obsvs ‘minus 1’ Th obsvtions

cot n its sum is zo Thus evtt pcs th nom ‘cops-

ing’ o th wv unction b th nom ‘ptitioning’ o th tot min5

Wht wou hppn i pson is b to intgt his mn pti

mins? Phps vnc mittion tchniqus ow this to hppn Wi

his mn (pt i, nti-cot) mins ‘cnc out’ to voi? W wi t-

tmpt to nsw this qustion in th nt w Chpts



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Complementary Attributes and Universes; and the Brain

It is scintiic ct tht ch mnt ptic hs compmnt

opposit — spci ptn c its nti-prtic tht hs th sm mss

but th opposit ctic chg accoing to rich fnmn, nti-p-tics cn so b consi s ptics moving bckw in tim — in

oth wos, in ‘vs tim’ It hs so bn oun tht this univs

vos ‘t-hn’ ptics In supsmmt thois, mtt-ptics

(mions) ct s oc-ptics (bosons) n vic vs Objcts

compising ths ct ptics invisib to us

Th is bunnt vinc tht th mutivs pps to ou bins to

b compos o ptho o pis o ptics n univss with comp-

mnt ttibuts Contctu univss ist n stbiiz ch othun dvi dutsch’s Mn-Wos intpttion o quntum phsics

yt wh o w not pinc contctu univss t th sm tim?

Wh o w iv in mtt-omint t-hn ‘cssic’ univs?

accoing to f an Wo, it is impossib in n sing univs o

n objct to hibit two o mo contctu ttibuts t th sm tim

a coin showing hs n tis simutnous wou b coin showing

on si up in on univs n th oth own in noth univs ech

univs is th con unc o gmnts concning wht is ogic con-

sistnt6

Phps ou si mo o pcption conins us to 3 univs

which is bock-o om oth contctu univss

Nvthss, th compmnt pis o intocking ttibuts

tht cn b pocss b ou bins s who — o mp th g n

th suc o n objct cn b pocss in p stms n thn sn-

thsiz to psnt on objct to consciousnss; whi o oth compmn-

t pis, on ttibut is suppss Whth th jct compmn-

t ttibut is immit conscious, bcoms conscious t (hnc,gnting prcptu ccs) o is t in th unconscious, pns on th

g o issonnc btwn th ttibuts in th compmnt pi

W cnnot s mtt with vs pit (th so-c mio mtt);

w so cnnot hop to s ntimtt objcts bcus th wi b msti-

ous n convnint nnihit b mtt objcts Ou phsic bins

so cnnot s v high ng objcts Comp to ou phsic snso

sstms, scintiic instumnts cn go somwht uth in wht th cn

msu n obsv But th too hv thi imittions W s tht whnn pimnt is st up in on w, ctons pp s wvs; whn th

contt o th pimnt is chng, th pp s ptics — much ik

how ou bins opt do ou s n o womn o oung in this

popu iusttion?




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Figure 2: Old Lady or Young Girl?

W s bov mous pcptu iusion in which th bin switchs

btwn sing oung gi n n o womn an nonmous Gmn

postc om 1888 pict th img in its ist known om, n

nition on n vtismnt o th ancho Bugg Compn om 1890

povi noth mp

a ou b to s th o womn n th oung t th smtim? Impossib? T to oscit btwn th two o bout minut,

whi ing ous you wi notic tht whn ou ou cn

ccommot both imgs in ou conscious pcption In ct, th mo

ou , th si it bcoms Th oscit ion is nogous to bck -

goun-ogoun switching ctivit This is no int om n pi-

mnt st-up (to mk stong msumnts) which ‘ss’ (o msus)

n cton ist s wv, n thn s ptic — but not both t th sm

tim This shows tht bin (mking stong msumnts) cn on ccpt goup o ttibuts whn it consis thm ogic s-consist-

nt It suppsss issonnt ttibuts Howv, i it is n non-

citic (mking on wk msumnts) it tns to ccommot vn

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with th t bin ‘Both-n’ ogic, which is so somtims scib s

‘quntum ogic,’ is gn ssocit with th ight bin Ou v

pcption pps to b g ivn b th ‘ith-o’ ogic — gn

ssocit with th t bin This unscos th ct tht ou pcp-tions tmin b th intn ogic tht ou bins us t n point

o tim

Generalization

‘yin n yng’ smbos o th unmnt uitis in i in

Chins phiosoph Th intpnnt — whn on incss, th

oth css — in oth wos, th compmnt opposits Wh

os yin n yng oscit in ou i i? Bhgwn Sh rjnsh,

mon mstic, tis to pin: ‘Th min is m up o pis o opposits,

so wh wi th scon pt go? It wi i un th ist witing o it to

hust its Th ist gts ti — t how ong cn this mn kp

sing “Go”? Whn h is ti, th scon pt coms up which pompts

him to s, “This mn is Stn” Now ths not two things: th

on Whn w ov w ht so H who is ou in is so ou nm

p within’7

epcttions, mmois n biss signiicnt inunc pcption

I pson viws n mbiguous igu n is pispos to s on iguinst o th oth, thn this pisposition cn ct th w h ss th

img This inunc hs bn shown to b quit stong fo mp,

in on pimnt 8 pticipnts w shown vsib igu bi (in

oth wos, th knw tht th img cou b pciv s on igu o

th oth) n thn sk to sktch th igu th pciv a o thm

cou not inti th oth igu om thi sktch at wing th

img th initi pciv, pticipnts w vn to wht th oth

img ws, n sti cou not inti it in thi sktch, vn though thwings w not v issimi om th oigin This givs us n i

o how stong n psistnt th inunc on visu pocssing cn b It

ctiv bocks th compmnt o cont viw

Pvious ning mous pcttions, suting in sctiv ttntion

o pcption Th pcption o pticu 3 univs, whn ccoing

to Scinc w iving in mutiimnsion mutivs, is n inhit

om o sctiv pcption Phps, tht is wh mn mittiv tch-

niqus stss th impotnc o ‘unning’ n ‘kping n opn min,’

so tht ou ‘s things s th ’




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Serial-Linear Operation of Conscious Left Brain

accoing to pschoogists, w know on sing cohnt vnt in ch

momnt — visu scn, mnt img o ting thought W cnnot

o two things conscious t th sm tim, such s cing on n intns convstion n iving in bus tic Howv ou cn switch ttntion

om on ctivit to noth pi — so tht it pps tht ou con-

scious o mo thn on ctivit Whn on ctivit bcoms conscious, th

oth ctivit cs to th bckgoun n is opt in n unconscious

mo — gin nogous to ogoun-bckgoun switching — with th

conscious t bin in th ogoun n th ‘unconscious’ ight bin in

th bckgoun uing most o th

Howv, it is popos tht i subjcts in n pimnt thigz n/o ttntion (i whn th bin mks on wk msumnts

o th nvionmnt), it m b possib to mintin n wnss o two

int imgs o ctivitis It is on whn ttntion is ocus strong on

on ctivit o pt (i whn th bin mks stong msumnts o th

nvionmnt) tht th oth ctivit o pt cs to th bckgoun

Oscillations and Suppression of Dissonant Sensations

rschs, Nikos logothtis n J Sch, us two visu stms —

gting moving upw in ont o on n ownw in ont o th

oth Sinc th two stms pp to b in th sm spc, th cnnot

b intpt s two spt stms It ws oun in this pimnt tht

on of th two (visu strms) is ws supprssd (b th brin). It wou, th-

o, pp to us s i th gting ws moving up on momnt, n own

th nt momnt (In it, th w two spt inpnnt visu

stms moving in opposit ictions)

an intgt (binocu) vision bks own i th signiicnt

incs btwn th inputs psnt to th two s To obtin coh-nc (i to uc issonnc), mn pimnts show tht th visu

sstm wi suppss on img in vo o noth In th sm w, is-

sonnt uito inputs so suppss an signiicnt ispit in th

inputs to th two s o s cuss on o th two ows to b suppss9

accoing to Bs, ‘Conscious pcption is ws cohnt, vn i th

nvous sstm ns to cnc som input in vo o noth’10 It sms

tht inputs to th two s, th two s o two pts o skin, ith compt

o cooptIn gn, Bs ss, it sms to b impossib o humn bings to

ho two diffrnt intpttions o th sm thing in consciousnss t th

sm tim In mn css, two psnttions cn b pov to ist t-

ing in th bin, but on on cn b conscious t tim W cn hn two



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stms o visu o uito inomtion on whn th mutu (i

ogic) consistnt, ss Bs11 Stphn Gossbg shows tht comp-

mnt pis o ttibuts, o mp, th suc n boun o n

objct cn b pocss in p stms subconscious, n thn sn-thsiz b th bin s sing objct to b viw b consciousnss12 This

is whn th inputs co-opt, th thn compt

Cancellation of Contrary Sensations?

Imgin i humn bings cn tin thi bins to s, h o (con-

scious) opposing o compting compmnt snstions t th sm tim,

inst o osciting — Wht wou th pciv? W wou pct th os-

citions to bcom mo pi unti it bcm suppos; thn w wou

pct cnction o snstions n cnction o consciousnss (th

tt bcus without contis, th is no consciousnss) Phps, tht

is wh th ight bin, which is ttibut with p pocssing biitis,

pp to b ‘unconscious’ (in twntith cntu pimnts t-

ing to th bin) though it ws pocssing inputs om th nvionmnt

n th t bin continuous

On vic tht ctu vincs cnction o snstions civ

b th ight n t bins is robt Mono’s ‘Hmi-Snc’ vic which

uss two int signs to th two s fo mp, whn subjct isqui to b put into tht bin wv stt th tchniqu is to sn

sign o 400 htz though on n 404 htz though th oth Th

so-c ‘binu bt’ wou thn cus th who bin to sont in th

tht qunc o 4 htz In oth wos, th 404 htz cncs out ginst

400 htz, ving 4 htz13 I w ppi compmnt signs — o -

mp, th sm qunc but phs-out — th wou b cnction

o ‘subtctiv combintion’ o compmnt snstions futhmo,

it hs bn notic tht whn th sm input is givn to th bin pt,th bin simp ‘switchs-o ’ bcus o th unnc in th ‘t’

In ‘both-n’ (o smmtic) ogic (us b th ight bin) th ttibut

n cont ttibut not istinguish — th tt simi n

qu This is pciv s unnc in th bin — n th bin possi-

b ‘switchs-o,’ ving th min to b ctput to high imnsion

pcption (b nog — th tnsthsis)

Appearances and Reality

a stick in th wt m ook ‘bokn’ but w know om scintiic n-

sis tht it is not bokn n tht this ‘i usion’ is cus b cting ight

Th ppnc is o bokn stick but th ‘it’ is tht it is continu-

ous accoing to phsicist G Zuku, ou pinc ts us tht th





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C H a P T e r 6

Th Bin n Mstic epincs

Th ight bin, s who, hs bn ssocit with igious pincs

Mo spciic, ctin pts o th t n ight bins hv bn s-socit with mstic pincs Ths incu th tmpo ob n

pt o th bin n th co; unstoo to govn both ous n

quiscnc Th tt is thought to p o in pincs o ctiv biss

simi to mstic tncs n ptus In this stt, pt o th bin, is

biv simutnous to gnt sns o cmnss n tnss con-

tibuting to th igious pinc o bing ‘who oth’

Nnc Muph, posso o Chistin phiosoph t fu Thoogic

Smin in Psn, Cioni, thinks tht how Go cts in th ntu

wo is on o th most pssing thoogic qustions Sh bivs tht

Go’s ction in humn i must b though intctions with th humn

bin1

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE)

epimnts on monks suggst tht th tmpo obs mit vious

stts o consciousnss In th pimnts, monks w givn lSd -

t hving vious pts o thi bins mov Th monks continu

to ‘tip’ no mtt wht pts o th bins w missing unti both tm-po obs w mov Th concusion ws tht th tmpo obs, in

ition to thi oth unctions (incuing th pocssing o music);

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at Sn digo’s Univsit o Cioni’s Cnt o Bin n Cognition,

Vinu rmchnn stuis ptints with pi ps, bin sions,

stoks o h injuis B tsting ptints who su sizus om tm-

po ob pips o ‘Tle,’ his tm oun int iguing hints o ‘ictnu mchin’ cting how intns somon m spon to spi-

itu o mstic pincs Such piptics isp n unusu obsssion

with igious mtts n, uing sizus, pot ovwhming ings

o ‘union with th univs’ Th schs oun ths pop so

hv hightn but compt invount nu spons to igious

ngug ‘Somthing hs hppn in thi tmpo obs tht hight-

n thi spons to igious tms n icons,’ ss rmchnn

‘Th m b sctiv nhncmnt o motions conuciv to igious

pinc’ 2

Tmpo ob pips (o Tle) hs bn ink to ivin ncounts,

tistic ction n istubing visittions om oth ms Tle hs so

otn bn ink to vit o tnscnnt pincs: csttic com-

munion with th ivin, piphnis o tistic ction, u ncounts

with in bings

a womn who ws suing om Tle tstii, ‘With Tle, I s

things sight int thn bo I hv visions n imgs tht nom

pop on’t hv Som o m sizus ik nting noth imnsion,th cosst to igious o spiitu ings I’v v h epips hs givn

m vision n insight into ms, n somtims bon ms, n

it hs p to m ctiv si Without Tle, I wou not hv bgun to

scupt’ This conition is cus b unusu ctic ctivit in th bin’s

tmpo obs a signiicnt popotion o pop with Tle pot tht

thi sizus (i whn th is bkown in th nu mchin) o -

tn bing on toin pincs o tnscnnt won, uminous

insight — o, t tims, howing, uncnn Mich Psing, nuoscintist t luntin Univsit in Subu,

Ontio, oun tht pop with qunt busts o ctic ctivit in thi

tmpo obs pot snstions o ing, oting, o ving th bo, s

w s oth mstic pincs B pping mgntic is to th bin,

h cn so inuc o mnt pincs — possib cus b busts o

nuon iing (simi to piptic sizus) in th tmpo obs fo m-

p, h hs m pop s i two in hns gbb thi shous

n istot thi gs whn h ppi mgntic is to thi bins

Mo cnt, sv Tle nuns hv povi uth vinc o

n piptic oot o mn mstic igious pincs fo mp, on

om nun ‘pphn’ Go in Tle sizus n scib th pi-

nc: ‘Sun vthing coms togth in momnt — vthing s



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up, n ou’ oo with sns o jo’

amicn nuoogist Posso Ggo Homs stui th i o

en Whit, who ws th spiitu oun o th Svnth- avntist

movmnt duing h i, en h huns o mtic igious visions which w citic in th stbishmnt o th chuch, hping to convinc

h oows tht sh ws in spiitu inspi But Posso Homs

bivs th m b noth mo posic pntion o h visions

at th g o nin, en su sv bow to h h as sut,

sh ws smi-conscious o sv wks n so i sh nv tun to

schoo foowing th ccint, en’s psonit chng mtic

n sh bcm high igious n moistic an o th ist tim in

h i, sh bgn to hv powu igious visions Posso Homs is

convinc tht th bow to en’s h cus h to vop tmpo ob

pips ‘H who cinic cous to m suggst th high pobbiit

tht sh h tmpo ob pips’

W wi nv know o su whth igious igus in th pst i-

nit i hv th iso but scintists now biv th conition povis

n insight into ving how igious pinc m impct on th bin

Th biv wht hppns insi th mins o tmpo ob piptic p-

tints m just b n tm cs o wht gos on insi o ou mins

fo von, whth th hv th mic conition o not, it now p-ps tht ctivit in th tmpo obs cn b t to gnt ctin

tps o igious n spiitu pincs

Persinger’s Findings — Instant TLEs

Psing bivs tht spiitu pincs com om t cti-

c ctivit in th bin dvi B om Hv Mic Schoo b-

ivs tht ‘ tmpo ob ocus in supio inivius (ik vn Gogh,

dostovsk, Mohmm, Sint Pu n Moss) m spk n toi-n sch o th ntit w tntiv c tuth o but’ rigion,

thn, is somtims ou intpttion o t ctivitis in th tmpo

obs n th imbic gion o th bin This is not to mn th msti-

c pinc, bcus Tle psonitis hv obvious ccompish

gt things, whos pth n mning hv it bon th c-

tic stoms in sing bin

Psing hs conuct pimnts with hmt tht puss busts

o ctic ctivit to th bin, stimuting wht h cs ‘Go pi-

nc’ Th pinc o Go, h ss, is init pouc in th bin

‘Th ctin bin pttns tht cn b gnt pimnt tht

wi gnt th sns, psnc n th ing o Go-ik pincs,’

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hp to ssocit ings o p w n motion signiicnc with th

pinc o sns psnc, onnss with th Univs, n sns

o ininit Minitu tmpo ob sizus occsion occu in oth-

wis hth pop without th i o Psing’s hmt Psing tstsubjcts with tnncis o mstic n spiitu pinc, n oun

tht th tn to hv subt hmisphic mismtch th tim — vn

whn not suing sizu Potnti tiggs o sizus incu tigu,

high titu, ow boo sug, pson cisis, nit n oth phsioogi-

c stssos Not von m hv ‘Go-pinc’ But thos who o

m hv bn pispos o such n ncount b th int-hmisphic

cicuits in thi tmpo obs

Obvious, th is wi ng o spiitu connctions tht on cn

pinc without Psing’s hmt But most spiitu pincs p-

p to invov mo o ss mtic th sm pts o th bin Som

pop m b h-wi to hv such bin-gion-spciic pincs

mo qunt, n to ving gs o intnsit On stu suggsts

tht pop with mstic pincs mo connct to thi subimi-

n unconscious, n mo pon to issocition This issocition m

cot with th issocition btwn th tmpo obs

The Counter-ArgumentsSimulations

Psing cims tht b putting on his hmt, th bin gnts on-

ous pincs, such s ing th psnc o oth (invisib) bings

Howv, w cnnot concu om this tht ths pincs o invis-

ib bings tot imgin as point out in th mtphsic it-

tu, incuing th utho’s ‘Ou Invisib Bois,’ high ng bois

ctomgntic in ntu athough th i icut o cunt scintiic

instumnts to tct (u to thi v high quncis), humn bing’sown high ng bois m b b to sns thm Psing is simuting

psncs which th bin (n its high ng countpts) hs vov

to spon to a goo tickst cn show v goo hoogm o n ong

om istnc Mn m biv tht it is in ct n ong, though it

is on psnttion Tht osn’t mn tht pcptions o ongs

iusions In oth wos, som spcts o Psing’s pimnts

ticking th bin to concu tht it is sing o snsing somthing (Oth

spcts ctu ctivt pts o th bin, so tht th subjct is into-uc to nw it)

Sinc pcptions gnt b wht th snss t th bin

though ntwok o nvs, n intcption in th ntwok to intouc

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dctivting th Bin

a ing stu hs bn conuct b d anw Nwbg, with his t

cogu d eugn ’aquii, in th dptmnt o Pschit using high-tch imging tchniqus to min th bins o mitting Buhists

n fnciscn nuns t p1 Th scintists, using wht is known s

sing positon mission comput tomogph (SPeCT), concu tht

intns spiitu contmption tiggs n ttion in bin ctivit In

th pimnts Nwbg invit Tibtn Buhists to his boto

n st thm up with thi ugs, cushions n p whs Bo th

mitt, n intvnous tub ws inst This ow ioctiv

isotop to b ict whn th pu sting s th ch pk

mittiv stt Th isotop min in th bin ong nough so tht

onc th mittion ws ov th subjcts cou b put un th ott-

ing tip-h SPeCT cm (simi to tht us in hospit scns) n

photogph to v imgs o thi bin ctivit

Sinc th mittos w ocusing intnt, th pont cot, s-

socit with ttntion, it up But mo stiking, th pit obs show

v itt ctivit Th pit obs ssocit with th ointtion

o th bo in spc n pocssing inomtion bout tim n spc

Mo spciic, th t supio pit ob cts th pcption o th phsic bo’s bounis Th ight supio pit ob cts

th pcption o th phsic spc outsi o th bo Bock o om

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o spti pcption cou w b th k to pincing ui sns o

spiitu communion, such s mn mstics o; this wou so hp pin

wh mstic occuncs, coss wi ng o iths, otn scib

in mtphoic simi tms’ In nuoogic pnc, th ointtionssocition bcoms nt o cut-o om inputs om oth

pts o th bin4

In spit-bin options, th t bin cou so b consi cut-o

o nt om th ight bin, n vic-vs atntiv, th

ugs tht cn suppss th unctions o on o th hmisphs Thi,

it hs so bn oun tht on hmisph cn b pvnt om knowing

wht is occuing in th opposit hmisph vi th inhibito ctions o

th ont obs, which houss th ‘ttntion ssocition ’

Th cts o nttion o th ointtion ssocition in-

cu sotning o th bounis o th s In sns, this impis tht

th s iss s b-pouct o spti n tmpo pcptions bcus

this o th bin gnts th spctim mti in which w iv

Mo spciic, whn inputs to th ointtion ssocition int-

upt, it hs to wok with whtv inputs it hs n its intn ogic, thus

pincing ininit spc n tim, ccoing to Nwbg n ’aquii

Th intnsit o th pinc pns upon th g o th nu

bockg — so th is spctum o ‘unit stts’ tht cn b pi-nc This continuum o pincs inks th most pooun mstic

stts to th munn stts in i i

Th tot shutown o nu input wou hv mtic ct on

both th t n ight bins Th ight bin’s ointtion , which is

sponsib o cting th nuoogic mti w pinc s phsi-

c spc, wou ck th inomtion it ns to ct th spti contt

in which th s cn b oint In this stt o nttion o th

ointtion , th min wou pciv nuoogic it consist-nt with mn mstic sciptions o th utimt spiitu union: Th

wou b no isct objcts o bings, no sns o spc o th pssg o

tim, no in btwn th s n th st o th univs Th min wou

ist without (th concpt o n) go in pu stt o unintit

wnss — voi consciousnss — th utimt unit stt — ccoing

to Nwbg n ’ aquii5

I th oos o pcption w cns v thing wou

pp to mn s it is, ininit

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Phps w shou s, ‘I th oos o (snso) pcption w

compt shut (i nt) v thing wou pp to mn s it

is, ininit’

Cognitive Operators

Nwbg n ’aquii s tht unctions ocis to isct gions in

th bin not comp cutis o th min, but mnt options

Mo bot cutis constuct om th si n p in-

tconnctions o sv bin gions In w ths options, both

mnt n bot, simi to options pom in bsic

mthmtics s pocss inomtion om int s o th bin

, subtct, mutipi, n ivi with wi ng o oth bits o

pocss inomtion though th ssocitions povi b nu pth-

ws in th bin Th pocsss o ssocition ong with th psticit o

ths connctions povi th humn bin with mutipicit o possib

pssions6

Th nuoscintists hv hpothsis svn unmnt cognitiv

optos in nzing th option o th bin s min, s oows: (1) th

hoistic opto, (2) th uctionist opto, (3) th cus opto, (4)

th bstctiv opto, (5) th bin opto, (6) th quntittiv op-

to, n (7) th motion-vu opto Ths unctions ow th minto think, , pinc, o, n intpt th univs ech cognitiv

opto cis out spciic unction, which combins with th unction

o th oth optos to om th ov bsis o th unctioning o th

min in spons to th tn wo

Th hoistic opto givs us th biit to pciv it s who,

to s th ‘big pictu’ rgss o th pticu objct o goup o ob-

jcts invov, whnv on consis o pcivs th gob o unit

pspctiv o things, on is mpoing th hoistic opto Th uction-ist opto os just th opposit o us b owing us to iscimint n

bk whos own into pts Otn ths two optos combin to hp

om mo ccut viw o ou v-chnging it

Th cus opto givs us th biit to pciv it in tms o

cus squncs It hps us vop sns o cusit ing bhin

tht w pinc, in oth wos it ows us to sting togth thoughts

n pincs s squnti t cts tht pouc cus ct

Th bstctiv opto, on th oth hn, ows o mo ctiv input

in th unstning o it b oming gn concpts bs on ini-

viu n unconnct thoughts n pinc an i tht is bs on

som ctu vinc, but is not pov to b ctu its, is gnt b

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vinc inicts tht divin Pow tn imposs ths pinc-

s Som skptics biv tht tmpo obs m contibut to imgintion

n ctivit, but tht spiitu pinc is mnt o kin to j vu

dvi No gus, ‘How cn ou tust such n pinc whn, thoughscinc, w cn convincing mimic th ct o Go?’

Bivs count with th gumnt tht i Go ists, h wou o

cous sign th bin so tht w cou hv som om o intction with

him Oths gu tht w cn nv know on w o th oth n ut

th humn bin’s imit concptu biitis Th it is tht it is th

isbing o spciic bin cicuits whi mintining oth bin options

tht ow us to both pinc n ssimit th pinc o th unit

stt n oth intmit stts

Nwbg ss tht th ct tht spiitu pincs cn b ssocit

with istinct nu ctivit os not ncssi mn tht such pi-

ncs m nuoogic iusions It is no s to s tht spiitu ugs

n snstions cus b bin ctivit thn it is to s tht th nuo-

ogic chngs though which w pinc th psu o ting n pp

cus th pp to ist Th inc is in th ct tht most o us g

on th phsic istnc o n pp rigious visions mo i icut to

scib, pouc, ho in ou hns n tk bit out o I w o tust

ou pcptions o th phsic wo (gnt b th bin), Nwbgss, thn w hv no tion son to c tht spiitu pinc

(so gnt b th bin) is iction tht is ‘on in th min’14

Nuoscintist eno rosch gs with Zn pctitions tht ou

v pcption, vn th most univs gmnt on th istnc

o pps, m b usu iction rosch n sch ptn Chistin

Sk point out tht th ings o intconnctnss tht pop p-

civ uing p mittion m in ct b just s s th popu s-

sumption tht humns spt bings Ou pcption o sptnssom th out wo m just b hn biit tht nbs us to chiv

ctin snstions Th momnts o onnss w pinc m b th -

cov o g it

Nwbg n ’aquii howv wn tht too much shou not b

into thi inings To suggst tht th objctiv pinc o Go

cou b uc to nuochmic u is nothing mo thn nïv i-

ism To b consistnt w must so mk th sm cim o th objctiv

it o th Sun, th eth n ou own bois15

I scintists n th sm tsts, th wou pobb so in tht ch

tim ou sw ou moth-in-w, ctin pts o ou bin wou bcom

ctivt Coming to th concusion tht ou moth-in-w i not ‘

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to such concusions, might b sious misintpttion o th tu ntu

o ths mstic pincs

a pcptions ist in th min Th eth bnth ou t, th

chi ou’ sitting, th book ou ho in ou hns m sm un-qustionb soi n , but th known to ou on s sconhn

nuoogic pcptions, s bips n shs cing ong th nu pth-

ws insi ou sku Th univs, om th nst chi o tb to th

thst sts n gis, is constuct om th inomtion tht th

bin civs om th snss I ou w to ismiss spiitu pinc

s ‘m’ nuoogic ctivitis, ou wou so hv to istust o ou

own bin’s pcptions o th mti wo, s Nwbg n ’aquii

Nwbg iks to skptics to th pp pi nog I ou t

sh bk, piping-hot sic o pp pi n took SPeCT scn t th

momnt o ou ist bit, th pts o ou bin tht gist shp n

om, sm, tst, mmo, n ssocition wou ight up, whi oth

s o th bin not invov in th tsk wou go k This pinc

vs its ootpint on th bin in much th sm w s os pk mi-

ttiv momnt But os tht mn th pp pi isn’t ‘’?

Utimt, th m b on o two concusions to w: th bin is st

up to gnt th concpts o igion, o th bin is st up b Go bcus

Go wnts us to hv thos pincs Nwbg ss: ‘Nuoscinc cn’tnsw tht’ Th sch so impis tht som pop cn b pispos

to igious pinc n oths not ‘I w unstn how th bin

woks, w m in sons wh ctin pop mo pon to igion,’

ss Nwbg Sist Ii dio, nuo-phmcoogist n ssocit po-

sso o spiituit n ccsistic histo t Wshington Thoogic

Union, bivs tht bcus humn bings ct b Go, th hv

th mns, incuing th ‘h-wiing’ o th bin, to know Go But sh is

mnt tht bioogic bsis o th pinc o Go cnnot b qut with Go Go, sh bivs, is th goun o tht ists n cnnot in

n w b qut with mti it, incuing th bin

at cing tht ths pincs ‘not outsi o th ng o

nom bin unction,’ Nwbg concus tht, ‘In oth wos, msti-

c pinc is bioogic, obsvb, n scintiic …I w

o tust ou pcptions o th phsic wo, w hv no tion son

to c tht spiitu pinc is iction tht is “on” in th min’

rvtion, th scintists suggst, n no ong b gt to th spi-

itu m — th sot o thing vib on to sct w in th om o

buning bushs o thuning voics in th st It cn b sn s imgs

on comput scn, in vibnt coos, b Th uthos hpothsis

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‘photogph o Go’ In, it is though this nu pthw tht ‘Go

gts into ou h’

an th com cos to ssting tht th SPeCT scn povs th ist-

nc o Go, o, in th uthos’ coss-cutu tm, ‘bsout unit bing’Thos who hv pinc vnc stts o mstic unit, howv,

cim tht ths stts o ik high it Th insist tht whn

comp to ou bsin sns o it, absout Unit Bing is mo

vivi, mo convincing ’ logic suggsts tht wht is ss must

b contin b wht is mo So, i absout Unit Bing tu is

mo thn subjctiv o objctiv it — mo , tht is, thn th

tn wo n th subjctiv wnss o th s — thn th s n

th wo must b contin within, n phps ct b, th it o

absout Unit Bing,’ s th nuoscintists16

On ct tht c shou psu us tht wht vnc mittos

hv pinc is is tht th it th pinc n pot

ov th cntuis cot with scintiic thois gnt b cutting-

g phsics to Th inings in phsics contrdict th v notions

o th wo — its conct it n th istnc o spc, tim, mss n

soiit In ct, it is mo o hucintion to pinc spc n tim

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Vitu rit

a mnts, incuing spctim, pp to b isct n boun b

th Pnck sc as w gt cos to it’s ‘scn’ th img bcomspit — ch pi no g thn th Pnck sc o 10-33 cm It’s s

i it is bing pojct om cosmic lCd pojcto W s g-

is, sts, pnts, pnts, nims n ousvs on th univs scn

Is th Pnck sc th ‘soution’ o this cosmic pojcto? a mutip

univss pojct on mutip scns in kin o muti-v Cinp to

gnt th mutivs?

To pticipt in vitu it movis, on hs to on spci-m

costums with th vnt snsos n moto spons mchnisms t-

tch a w wing sis o ‘suits’ now? (Wht nom -

to s high ng ‘subt bois’ in mtphsic ittu) do

w tun to th voi b moving ths suits? rtiv to th voi not

ths univss ‘vitu’ it? Wht is th pupos o ths vitu

it movis — o pinc, inomtion n nttinmnt? Who is

wtching ths movis? Who ou?

Surface Realities

I w imgin ipp on th suc o sti pon w s sm cicuig o wt suoun b v-wining igs unti it mgs with th

suc o th pon fom th mtphsic point o viw, th smst ci-

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cicu ig (with ow mpitu) wou scib th g o

high ng univs; n th thi ig (with vn ow mpitu)

psnts n vn g high ng univs

Both phsicist n mtphsicist g tht ou univs ists on s istubnc on th suc o vst ocn — which pps to us, in

its pths, s voi K C Co, scintist, sks us to imgin ou 3 uni -

vs s ‘th scum tht oms on th suc o pon’ a th ocs tht

mk up ou v univs — cticit, mgntism, n nuc oc-

s — wou b tpp insi this suc accoing to sting tho, th

wou b wvs vibting in this suc Howv, noth, p imn-

sion wou i bnth th suc, ik th wt unnth th scum

On gvit cou mk wvs in this p imnsion1 Ou univs is

stuck t th g o this p imnsion accoing to rgin Chi

n Chistoph King o fins Univsit in ai, spc n tim

n th objcts oun us no mo thn th oth on p s o

nomnss

It tks on ngigib mount o ng o istubnc to sti th

ocnic ngtic voi to gnt univss2 Phsicist dvi Pt ss tht

th univs w iv in is v in coction H sks us to think o

tvision st pugg into th w with sv mps o cticit t 110

vots nting th st Supimpos on this ng is vitu ngigibng — tin uctutions in cunt which pick up b th ntn-

n om th bocst sttion This ngigib ng cis inomtion

which shps th much gt ng gnting pictus on th tvision

scn

Th much gt ng o th tvision its, which hs simp

n smmtic o, is moii b th ngigib ng o th sign,

which hs compict om o (smmtic) o This obsvtion

suppots mtphsic concpts o isciminting min ‘gnting wvsn in th pocss smmtic univss’ in th pct smmtic voi,

with ngigib mount o ng This ngigib mount o ng in n

iniviu’s bin gnts pictus on th mnt scn unconscious

Metaphysical Literature

In 1888 mtphsicist H P Bvtsk si ‘Spc is th woin its

bottomss pths s on its iusiv suc; surfc stu with countss

phnomn univss, sstms n mig-ik wos’ 3 Pmhns

yognn, bs on ict pcption c n pinc h h in

1946 H ss, ‘Th bth n th stss min, I sw, ik stoms tht

sh th ocn o ight into wvs o mti oms — eth, sk, humn

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On’s vus pooun chng whn h is in

convinc tht ction is on vst motion pictu; n tht

not in it, but bon it, is his own it

Pmhns yognn, 1946 16

Illusion of Spacetime

Th is mounting vinc om mon phsics tht spctim is n i-

usion In th ain aspct pimnt it ws conim tht two ptics

which ntng ct ch oth vn i th ight s pt In

John Wh’s pimnt it ws oun tht th histo o ptic -

pn on wht hppn in th psnt einstin mk in on o his

tts tht ‘tim is n iusion’ Spc too is n iusion Th tm ‘iusion’

is us h in th sns tht spctim is tiv to th obsv’s m o

nc It is v to th obsv om his oc m o nc but

it is not inb gob

Hn Stpp nots tht th cnt mst o quntum tho is how

inomtion gts oun so quick H sks, ‘How os th inomtion

bout wht is hppning vwh s gt coct to tmin wht

is ik to hppn h?’ accoing to phsicist G Zuku, th phio-

sophic impiction o quntum mchnics is tht o th things in ouunivs (incuing us) tht ppr to ist inpnnt ctu pts

o on -ncompssing ognic pttn, n tht no pts o tht pttn

v spt om it o ch oth In oth wos, non o th ob-

sv ‘pts’ ctu spt in spc o tim — it is pct unit

estn mstics n wstn pots hv bn ting us o

ong tim tht whth w spk o somthing n nothing,

yin n th yng, th poton n cton, w scibingtwo pts o n univi who

Stnisv Go

accoing to l Smoin phsicists now g tim s nothing but

msu o chng Nith spc no tim hs n istnc outsi th

sstm o voving tionships tht compiss th univs17 fom s-

tonut, eg Mitch, ss tht w inhbit quntum wo wh non-

oc cts shou b pct t vs o unctioning, not just s

cuious tict o th subtomic v o it18 Th Sungm Sut m-

phtic stts ‘th pcption o th s n th objcts it ss n spc

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img o th objct o n smbnc o th img cnnot b oct on th

t hoogphic tmpt

I th t hoogphic tmpt is bokn into mn pics — ch

pic wi sti b b to gnt 3-imnsion hoogm — thoughth img wou not b s c s whn th pics us This is th

who-in-th-pt o ‘WIP’ tu in hoogph Sinc v pic con-

tins v oth pic (sinc it contins th who), v pic is intcon-

nct with v oth pic Hnc, th mintion o ch pic wi -

v th oth pics — in initum ech pic is tho ‘ composit o

composits’ John To ss i in ou sch o th utimt constitunts

o ntu, w ws oun tht th hv thi own constitunts, n th

this, ininitum; thn ou who Univs cou thn b consi

constuct out o s-cting ntitis It wou thn b tu tiv:

nothing wou b unmnt; vthing wou ct n in its tun

b ct out o vthing s 25 Som cs go, phsicist Go

Chw povi th ‘bootstp mo’ o mnt ptics, wh no

ptic is consi ‘unmnt’

Hn Stpp wot o th atomic eng Commission,’…n mn-

t ptic is not n inpnnt isting ntit It is, in ssnc, st

o tionships tht ch outw to oth things’ Th isotion tht w

ct is n iiztion, n on point o viw is tht quntum mchnicsows us to iiz photon om th unmnt unbokn unit so

tht w cn stu it In ct, photon sms to bcom isot bcus w

stuing it accoing to Stpp, th phsic wo, ccoing to qun-

tum phsics, is not stuctu buit out o inpnnt isting ntitis,

but th wb o tionships btwn mnts whos mnings is

who om thi tionships to th who — much ik hoogm Nis

Boh ss tht n inpnnt sttus, in th oin phsic sns, cn

b scib nith to th phnomn no to obsvs In oth wos,th wo o sming inpnnt objcts, oct within spctim, cn-

not b s it pps Wht w pciv to b phsic it is ctu ou

cognitiv constuction o suppssion o compmnt ttibuts o th

smmtic voi Intconnctnss n th suting ck o inpnnc

o n pt o th who (sinc it is ws connct to th who) is n in-

hnt tu o hoogphic gnt mutivs

Real-Time Holograms

digit hoogphic sstms cn gnt hoogms bs on inomtion

into comput, which n not b psnttions o isting objcts

but ctions o th min an nog wou b comput music o

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Quntum-Hoogphic Tho o Pcption

Holographic Memory Storage in the Brain

K lsh hs point out, t conucting numous pimnts on

th bins o nims, tht nith th ning no th tntion o hbit

is ocis in n on o th cot Inst, th g o ttion

in ning o oss o mmo oowing cotic sions is popotion to

th mount, n not th pc, o th cotic sion This ct, which h

cs ‘cb mss ction,’ hs bn monstt ov n ov gin1,

suggsting tht mmois sto in th om o hoogms o hoo-gphic cos

accoing to Pibm, th bin uss hoogphic-ik co to nco

incoming snso inomtion Th no s bms in th bin Th

tin img is mpp onto th bin cot which bks own th im-

g into vious wvoms using mthmtic tchniqu c ‘foui

tnsoms’ (s in hoogph) Th bin os not sto it pouc-

tion o n objct’s img but n bstct hoogphic co o wv-phs

tionships ik th ovpping pttns o ight n sh on hoo-gphic pt1 In sns, th bin, ccoing to Pibm, psnts th

hoogphic im on which intnc pttns sto a p viw

wou b tht th hoogphic ncoing occus in th u-voi o zo

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ininit chckbo b suppssing issonnt ttibuts in ch comp-

mnt pi uing stong msumnts (Th issonnc iss tiv

to th intn ogic o ch vov bin) Th is csc o smm-

t-bking Though constuctiv intnc, ou bins (n its invisibsupstuctus) psnt to us uniqu (smmtic) ‘t-hn’ 3 wo

Constuctiv intnc, which gnts pttns in th voi, is th sut

o stning wvs

Standing Waves

Stning wvs om whnv two wvs with th sm wvngth

pss in opposit ictions in som mium Th is om th combi-

ntion o ction n intnc such tht th ct wvs int

constuctiv with th oigin wvs Th wvs chng phs upon c-

tion om i n Th stning wv is pttn in th combin wvs

tht m mnist on constuctiv intnc o ispp on stuctiv

intnc o th wvs Sinc wvngth n qunc t, stn-

ing wvs cn on ist o isct st o quncis Tht mns tht to

ct th stning wv pttn, som souc must iv th wvs t on o

thos quncis ech stning wv pttn hs its own ntu qunc,

n i w iv th wvs n tht qunc, w wi succ in gnting

th cosponing stning wvTh i tht ctons cn on occup ctin isct ng vs

ws v pping to invstigtos n to Nis Boh hims bcs

th cton ws consi to b ptic It wou sm tht n cton

shou b b to obit oun th nucus t n i istnc Moving

mong obits wou nb ctons to mit ngis o ight But this

os not hppn Wh th cton occupis on isct vs is btt un-

stoo b consiing th cton to b, not ptic, but wv Using

th i o intnc, Bogi show tht th isct vus o ii o Boh’s obits ntu consqunc o stning cton wvs

accoing to Mio Wo, th ‘ptic’ is sphic stning wv —

pttn gnt b two intic sphic wvs tving i in oppo-

sit ictions6 Gbi lniè concus tht vn mgntic n ctic

is m b consi stning wvs7 Th ct tht vn sing photon

o cton shows n intnc pttn in oub-sit pimnt s

to th vinc tht sing cton is wv In o to viw th c-

ton s ptic, noth wv (tving in th opposit iction) must b

gnt b tcto tht ints with this wv, to pouc stning

wv Th Schöing wv qution is in ct in combintion o two

wvs tving in opposit ictions Th scon wv m ctu b th

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The Platonic Universe

rog Pnos sks, ‘Wht ight o I hv to s tht th Ptonic [mthmti-

c] wo is ctu “wo” tht cn ist in th sm sns in which ou

wo ists? It m w sm tht it is g-bg o bstct concpts thtmthmticins hv com up with om tim to tim yt its istnc sts

on th pooun, timss n univs ntu o ths concpts n on th

ct tht thi ws inpnnt o thos who iscov thm Wh (o)

such pcis mthmtic ws p such n impotnt o in th bhvio

o th phsic wo? How it is tht pciving bings cn is om out o

th phsic wo n b to ‘ct’ mthmtic concpts out o som

kin o mnt mo?’22

It is popos tht th obsv (with his imit min) isots ogic- s-consistnt smmtic univs om th suppos smmtic voi

This sovs th mst o wh ou univs pps to oow mthmtic

ws in such pcis w W isot this s-consistnt univs om

th suppos voi, just s oth obsvs hv tct thi own s-

consistnt univs om th suppos voi Th tctions bs on

mthmtic ws which inhnt in ou mins

The Participatory Universe

Th most pooun sson o quntum mchnics, Wh mks, is tht

phsic phnomn somhow in b th qustions w sk o thm

’This is in som sns pticipto univs,’ h ss Th bsis o -

it m not b th quntum, which spit its usivnss is sti phsic

phnomnon, but th bit (i usu inomtion), th nsw to s-o-no

qustion, which is th unmnt cunc o computing n communic-

tions Wh cs his i ‘th it om bit’ foowing Wh’s , vi-

ous thoists ting to cst quntum phsics in tms o inomtion

tho a ths invstigtos hv oun tht Hisnbg’s unctint

pincip (which is boun on inomtion), wv-ptic uit n non-

ocit cn b omut mo powu in th contt o inomtion th-

o, ccoing to Wiim Wootts o Wiims Cog, om Wh

stunt who is pusuing th ‘it-om-bit’ concpt

Brains Generate Realities by Generating Information

Th soving pow o th is imit n non-uniom Th twotin imgs which istot, tin, n upsi-own23 Outsi th

high-soution ov gion, th tin is n coou-bin n its pows

o iscimintion sv imit Th is in constnt motion, sc-

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mong th quks So vn th nucus o th tom is cos to nothing! Tht

mns ou bsic nothing

accoing to phsicist John Hitchcock, istnt stu in th uni-

vs ps o its b bing in gvittion tionship to th st o thunivs Th cosmos, h ss, s up to nothing — th obsv ngtiv

oms o ng (gvit) n positiv oms o ng (mss n ition)

bnc to n zo in ou nti obsvb cosmos3

dvi Bohm chos wht lbt n Bsnt si in 1919 b giv-

ing n mp H ss, ccoing to quntum tho, cst t bso-

ut zo ows ctons to pss though it without sctting; th go

though s i th spc ws mpt I th tmptu is is, howv,

inhomognitis pp; n ths sctt ctons I on w to us

such ctons to obsv th cst, on th inhomognitis wou b

visib It wou thn pp tht th inhomognitis ist inpn-

nt n tht th min bo o th cst ws sh nothingnss Bohm

pins, ‘Wht w pciv with th snss s mpt spc is ctu

pnum — th goun o istnc o vthing, incuing ousvs

Things tht pp to ou snss gnt n sustin b th p-

num, into which th must utimt vnish Spc, which hs so much

ng, is u th thn mpt’ 4

Mss is icinc in n othwis u spc… wht w

think o s mpt spc is ctu u …mtt, mss, gvit

n oth ocs, ssnti o th tus o th univs

w know, icincis in u spc, not itions to n

mpt spc Th wo w know is not mo thn nothing, it

is ss thn vthing

Gvin Giobn, Phsicist

Whi Bohm iv t his concusions bs on scintiic pimnts

n mthmtic gumnts, lbt iv t it b ict pcption

Ths two ppochs — on thotic n th oth pinti hs bn

us b scintists n mstics, spctiv How is it tht th scintist n

mstic, using int tchniqus, hv iv t simi concusions?

Th numous cotions in thi inpnnt inings — spci

in tion to unmnt issus i not whth Jupit is th gst pn-

t in th So Sstm o whth th eth is t o sphic; but whth

th is unmnt constitunt in th univs, whth spc is mpt,

whth spc n tim iusions

Mn o th munn qustions tht scintists sk m b ivnt

to mtphsicists This is bcus mn mtphsicists w n con-











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bcus th high ng ptics wou b invisib (o k) to th in-

hbitnt

accoing to ‘avit Vnt’ igious phiosoph, th squnc o

issoution is th vs o ction This vs pocss is gu Gossmtt bcoms subt n subt fin, th who univs is bsob

n sts in omnc in unmnist conition In this conition, th

th unmnt constitunts o Hinu mtphsics, i sttvs, js

n tms, quipos (stoing smmt) This conition continus

unti th quiibium o th th constitunts is istub (i whn th

is bk in smmt) n ction stts gin Ction is th mnist-

tion o th pvious unmnist; issoution is th vs pocss ‘Spc

is positiv ntit It is convt into ptics n ptics convt

into it,’ ss N C Pn13

In oth wos, ccoing to avit Vnt, univss mnist

whn th is bk in th smmt o th u voi — moving w om

quiibium, owing ‘phnomn i’ n compit to mnist This

is consistnt with twntith cntu’s ‘chos tho’ at n unimgin-

b ong pio o tim, th squnc vss n vthing tuns to

quiibium astonom Stn Onw points out, ‘athough, th qui-

ibium stt pps to b “omnt,” stict spking, nith th tms

“omnt” no “ctiv” cn b ppi to it It is n inb stt, whichis nith sttic no nmic’ — th ttibut n its cont ttibut

quipos Onw wns us tht ‘in th n,’ it wi b th voi tht

suvivs though th tnitis to com, s th st o th mti wo

shs out o istnc14

Th who univs might hv hug numb o vcuum

stts, n it might b possib to jump sun om on

to th oth Th cnt iscov tht th univs sttpning n is hing to oc v mns tht on

th univs wi issov

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oth stuis ik thm, h concus, mks it c tht th is un-

mnt ivision in n nim’s contct with th wo Th ivision is bs

on w o ppoching th outsi wo tht voution wok out ong

bo it thought o us; ou ivi cot pp with th ist mmms accoing to him, ch o ths ws o ognising it must hv h

immit (voution) vntgs

rcnt sch hs monstt tht th two cb hmisphs

t spciiz in spcis s ivs s bis, onts, n mon-

ks5 Th psnc o hmisphic spciiztion in goups with such v-

i voution histois m b pin b p voution om com-

mon sctiv pssus accoing to dvi Kis, t intition

in nu ognistion n unction m occu in th ist bin stuc-

tus, incuing th ow binstm n th thmus

Different Brains — Different Realities

It wou pp tht bi ncounts with th ight-cognitiv

st shows tht noth it cn ist in which n ntir

diffrnt tp o thinking omints [emphsis ]

Jms Iccino 6

at mn s o scinting sch on th spit bin, it

pps tht th invntiv n intpting t hmisph hs

conscious pinc vr diffrnt om tht o th tuthu,

it ight bin [emphsis ]

Mich Gzznig 8

Both hmisphs o th bin cpb o som kin o

wnss, but thi mthos o pincing n pssing it vr diffrnt [emphsis ]

anw Nwbg n eugn ’ aquii 7

Ou t n ight bins ow us to viw it in two int mos — th

t bin psnting it s this o tht univs, subjct to ccs n u-

itis; n th (vnc n isot) ight bin psnting it to us s

n ttibutss voi dm schs g th t stt o con-

sciousnss uing ms s v mstious, ccoing to Iccino, min

bcus int cognitiv st using imgs (ssocit with th ight

bin) is bing mpo Upon wkning, th subjct’s t-ntic mo

usu hs iicut o cnnot pss in wos wht th ight-hoistic

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unthomb w, th gvittion i wou contin th inomtion

Ntu n to shion tim n spc evn th things it contin, such

s th unmnt ttibuts, wou b pt o its invisib bic17

Phsicist B J Hi pin tht in pimnts which hv bnm to in th ius o th cton th ssum tht it hs n intn

stuctu Howv, th in no stuctu Th ntu ssumption is tht

it is point-ik But it sms v iicut to unstn how point cn

pocss th inomtion o its own i coming bck om th nvion-

mnt Tho, phsicists postut tht th shou b som stuctu

btwn 10-15 cm n 10-33 cm which is th Pnck ngth H ss this is

wh pop think tht spc-tim wi bk own, though h s it

m bk own bo tht accoing to him ou cn hv stuctu in n

cton without bing tn in spctim19

Poic, stuctu inomtion n oms impicit in th u-

voi Intit n intntionit m tho t b psnt (in ‘ozn’

stt) on th ‘suc’ o th univs (i th vnt hoizon), though it

m bcom sup uous (n mningss) This inomtion wi b th

vn whn th univs is issov but wi b ctivt in th nt cc o

mnisttion

How cn th u-voi o suppos vnt hoizon contin stuctu

inomtion n intitis? dvi Bohm scib n intsting vic hsw in BBC tvision pogm Th vic ws spci sign j

contining g otting cin Th spc btwn th cin n

th j ws i with gcin foting motionss in th gcin ws

op o ink Whn th hn on th cin ws tun, th ink sp

out though th sup gcin n sm to ispp But whn th

hn ws tun bck in th opposit iction, th ink sow cops

upon its n onc gin om opt 20 Bohm wits, ‘This immi-

t stuck m s v vnt sinc whn th ink op ws sp out, itsti h ‘hin’ (i non-mnist) o tht ws v whn it ws

constitut’21

as not in avit Vnt, th univs issovs into th voi, on

to v its onc gin t th wn o mnisttion a uitis

suspn o suppos in th u-voi n cnc-out in th mpt-

voi Th stuctu (i om) o th univs pps to b inhnt in

th ppnt mptinss o th u-voi accoing to Buhist Mhnist

Sciptus, ‘fom is mpt, mptinss is om’22

accoing to dnh Zoh th quntum vcuum is v inppopi-

t nm bcus it is not mpt rth, it is th bsic, unmnt,

n uning it o which vthing in this univs — incuing

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‘wo-i’ in th quntum vcuum contins th oms tht gnt th

univs

Perfect Symmetry — Perfect Randomness — Perfect Freedom

Th voi is smmtic This so mns tht it is tot nom in chc-

t n cus om ou pspctiv To rgin Chi n Chistoph

King spc n tim n th objcts oun us no mo thn th

oth on p s o nomnss ‘f om bing m ssocit with

quntum msumnts, this nomnss is t th v ht o it,’

ss Chi a mtphsicist stt bsic th sm i but with i-

nt intpttion

I K Timni gus tht ‘it is this intmintnss t th bsis o v

ntu phnomnon which is ct in n to s th pincip

o unctint which hs bn iscov b phsicists This unctint is

u to th ct tht t th bsis o th phnomn wo which is govn

b ct ntu ws is consciousnss Th who o th mnist uni-

vs which is boun b ntu ws, n tho tmint, is mb-

, s it w, in consciousnss which is n tho intmint

Unctint, tho, is oun t th bock o n phnomnon n not

in th bo o th phnomnon its’23

accoing to lnn McTggt, einstin hims cognis thtmtt its ws istubnc o pct nomnss24 Phsic it

is iucib nom G Mibun howv qustions, ‘But how cn

nthing so butiu o n wu s th univs is om such

n ppnt wss pincip? Th ppnt intigibiit o th univs

is constuct, ccoing to him, bit b bit, om ntng ‘qubits’25

asmmtic univss gnt om th smmtic voi though

pt bks in its smmt Ntu sms to b isstisi with too

much smmt John Hitchcock ss, n th smmt in ntu ss smmtic thn th cus tht gv is to thm26

Chi n King viw oms s bing nom gnt Oths

o th viw tht it on pps nom gnt bcus th

gnt om n unboun intmint consciousnss Timni ss

tht whn ction coms out om n intgt (unboun, smmtic)

consciousnss it coms out om th consciousnss s who n not om

n pticu ct o wiing — s in th cs o min 27 — much ik c-

tiv is tht pp most om nowh Th tm ‘nowh’ is signii-

cnt — th voi (o th quivnt iuso bck ho intios ‘in’ th uni-

vs) is in ct it ‘nowh’ sinc spc is n iusion

In oth wos, Timni is pping to top-own n hoistic pocss

which givs is to unctint n th pobbiistic ntu o th phsic









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Wht wou ou pciv i ou cou pciv th mutivs, with its con-

t ttibuts n univss, s gstt? W, ppnt, wht ogic

oows is n ttibutss voi

The Attributeless Void

Sinc cont ttibuts cnc out thi conjugt ptns in th voi, th

mpt-voi cn b si to b ‘ttibutss’ Phsicist John Hitchcock -

pins tht ptic n its ntiptic (gnt in th quntum vcuum)

hv th sm mss but thi chg n spin is in tms o opposits

i positiv n ngtiv chg, n positiv n ngtiv spin; so tht th

positivs n ngtivs cnc s to nt quntit o ch ttibut which is

gnt in th pocss This is on om o mptinss, which h cs n

‘mptinss o ttibuts’19

Total Functioning of the Holistic Operator

Mstics o igions chiv n immit sns o Go vi

th tot ppiction o th hoistic opto to th totit o

it

Nwbg n ’ aquii 2

accoing to Nwbg n ’ aquii, th is hoistic opto oct

in th pit ob in ou non-ominnt (usu ight) bin In nom,

v wnss, it is iicut o th hoistic opto to unction in

isotion Howv, in intns mittion n p this opto cn b

m to unction bi in n bsout sns ‘so tht th nti univs is

pciv s unit’ Nwbg n ’ aquii scib this s th bsout

unit stt Th bsout unctioning o th hoistic opto, th s, is

ssocit not so much with th concpt o Go s with th pinc o Go I univs o cont ttibuts is pinc hoistic it wi b

both pct unit n pct smmtic voi

Deafferentation in Meditation

yog is th stint o th pocsss o th min

Ptnji, yog Suts 3

Tot nttion is th cutting-o o input to cognitiv op-

to in th bin accoing to To n dgontti’s commnt on th

(Ptnji’s) yog Suts, in o to its om suing, th Spiit

must ‘is-inti’ n isntng its om mnt pocsss; it must iso-










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at th cnt o bck ho is th singuit wh

spctim hs ininit cuvtu H it is no ong

mningu to spk o spc n tim, much ss spctim

Jumb up t th singuit, spc n tim cs to ist s w know thm In this biz m in which spc n tim

bokn pt, cus n ct cnnot b unv

Univsit o Iinois

Is Perception Indefinitely Extended?

Th Sungm Sut cims tht ‘in th stt o om om intoicnts’

pson ‘wi b b to ook upon th countis o this wo n s thm

s c s n objct ing in th pm o his hn In tht stt th n-

ightn ons, ‘ooking bon this wo, hv sn with ik cnss,

th wos, vn huns o thousns o wos Thi sight chs

vwh But th pcption o th s bonging to oin sntint

bings cnnot pic though th thicknss o tnth o n inch’17 In

sph wh tim os not ist, it wou b ntu to b t pcs

t th sm tim Th bsic options o th ight bin gnt n in-

tgt psnttion o wh w in spc Cunt, 3 spc is

constuct b ou bins o us bs on incoming inomtion I w cnopt though oth bois n bins, w n not b stict to

3 spc accoing to nown phsicist, l Smoin, whn w imgin

w sing into n ininit 3 spc, w ing o c in which

w substitut wht w ctu s o n intctu constuct (gnt

b th bin) Th continuous ppnc o (3) spc is n iusion, h

ss18 I spctim is n iusion, thn pcption cou in b non-o-

cis n tn ‘ininit’

End of ‘Cycles’

W not tht s w go up th ng o (p) univss, th -

qunc incss Hnc, th wvngth css Th wvngth o

wv is simp th ngth o on compt wv cc — om th cst o on

wv to noth Hnc, s th wvngth css, th ccs contct to

point

In th highst ng univs, spc n tim ‘bk-up’ n bcom

iscontinuous Th sm thing wou hppn i w wnt own to mico-

scopic Pnck scs in th phsic univs In ith cs, th sub-qun-

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Ctivit is n pssion o th voi

asmmtic ogic hs tministic It nv ivs

nw tuth Smmtic ogic [o th voi], b contst, hsconsib om, it cn mov in vit o ictions

ron Bomo

Th Smmt o Go 28

a Chistin wit onc wot, ‘whn ou in th cnt, ou hv

th om to mov nwh’ Th k to cnting n chiving p-

ct smmt n quiibium in wnss is to b nith ttct no

p b vnts o ttibuts This isntngs th min — owing it to

go into supposition n thn sip into n mnt voi though ntu

ocs O cous, ch univs wou oow th sm out ov much

ong tim sc thn n iniviu’s tjcto Utimt, v ptic

o consciousnss o v bing (vn ‘incoigibs,’ ccoing to Buhist

sciptus) wi b ci b th univs ti into th voi

as o th cosmos in which w iv, bon th nom

unpictb supiss o th n utu, ppnt in

istnt utu ou own spctim n ou p nti-mttcosmos which w inspb connct to wi both

mg a mutitu o p wos unit within on

pc to tun to th mium om which th oigint

Stnisv Go

Karma — the Force of Symmetry — A Force from the Void?

rgss o th wo’s nss compit, th is v

son to biv tht chng movs tow bnc, n th

sm pincip ik ppis to spcts o ntu n i

Th mov tows n univi who is ik univs

pincip guiing ou ivs

Stnisv Go 29

Km is oc tht bings points o consciousnss bck to quiibium,

bck to pct smmt ech tim smmt bks th is oc tht

buis up — pushing consciousnss bck to th pct smmtic voi

Hvns n hs both movmnts w om th voi

































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ing,’ opts s communictions cb — much ik th copus co-

sum in th humn bin Whi th copus cosum conncts th ight

n t bins, th siv co conncts on bo-bin to noth In oth

wos, ctivitis occuing in th high ng bo-bins so com-municting with th bin in ou biomocu bois I this co is sv

o issov th ctivitis o th bins in high ng bois wi not b

ct in th phsic-biomocu bin o mit b it

Th cognitiv-snso sstms o high ng bois ow us to p-

inc p univss with int spctim signtus

The Brain’s Invisible Superstructure

The Visible Brain

Vincnt Gis, in his tic ‘With Bin dsto, Th liv n Think’4

hs givn mn mps o psons, who, with thi bins ith pti

o who sto, continu to iv n think nom Po G W Su

pot o cs o mn who h bn insn o mn s thn su-

n bcm nom just bo his th Th utops v tht th

ws pctic nothing o th bin t in his bin pn a pthoogic

pocss h gu sto n iminish th bin’s mss but th

mst o his tun to nomc min unpin

d Gustv G pots cs o oung bo who i in u pos-sssion o his mnt cutis, though, u to n ctiv bscss, invoving

th nti cbum, this ncphic mss ws compt tch om

th bub — which is conition quivnt to it cpittion H hs

givn mn such css in his books which to th concusion tht th

u spctum o consciousnss hibit b th biochmic bin os not

oigint th

Lorber’s Work rog lwin’s tic is ‘Is you Bin r Ncss?’ 5 outin th

mkb sch conuct t th Univsit o Shi b nuoog

posso, th t d John lob Whn Shi’s cmpus octo ws

tting on o th mthmtics stunts o mino imnt, h notic

tht th stunt’s h ws itt g thn nom n th

stunt to posso lob o uth mintion Th stunt in qus-

tion ws cmic bight, h pot IQ o 126 n ws pct to

gut Whn h ws min b CaT-scn, howv, lob iscov- tht h h vitu no bin t ! Oini, th ws o th c-

bum 4 to 5 mi imts thick In this cs, th stunt h ss thn

1 miimt o cb tissu coving th top o his spin coumn H ws

suing om hocphus Nvthss, th Shi stunt iv










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th biomocu bin n high ng bins

Brain Lateralisation and Higher Energy Bodies

Mtphsicist Bb Bnnn ( om NaSa scintist n now ‘subtng h’) obsvs tht th high ng bois tnt btwn

stuctu n stuctuss bois Th stuctu (o cstin) bo

is ssocit with ‘mnt’ bo; n th stuctuss (iqui o uiic)

bo n ‘motion’ bo7 Th ntu o ths bois hs bn iscuss

in ti in th utho’s book ‘Ou Invisib Bois’8

lbt points out tht v pt o ou (biomocu) bin is

mpp onto ths high ng bois9 I tht is so, thn th must

b cotion btwn th tnt mnt n motion bois -

scib b Bnnn (n in gn, th mtphsic ittu); n th

t n ight bins, spctiv Th voution o bin tistion in

i-oms on eth (incuing humn bings) ow ths i-oms to

ccss th pocssing cpbiitis o high ng bo-bins in p

sup univss

atnt high ng bois untk cognitiv pocsss co-

sponing to th t n ight bins This mns tht whn nu ctiv-

it is shit om th t to th ight bin, o vic-vs, int high

ng bois ctivtTh ct tht int bin ctivitis ocis in th t n ight

hmisphs o th bin in consistnt mnn hs bn iscuss

in this book Stuis o spit bin ptints show tht th ocistion m b

so ponounc tht th two hmisphs sn to psnt most two

int psons iving in sing bo! Th two mins (o psons) cn

vn hv int opinions bout pop n things W so now is

(with som stonishmnt) tht th stuctu o ou bin hs pooun

ct on ou post-motm stts

Post-Mortem States

Bnnn intiis ou ‘phsic bois’ — th phsic-biomocu, with

which w mii; n th oth ‘phsic-thic’ bois Th ist is

‘tmpt bo’ Th scon n thi th motion n mnt bo-

is; which cot with th ight n t bins, spctiv

accoing to th mtphsic ittu, uing th th pocss

(o th phsic bois), th mnt bo issovs n contcts into th

‘phsic-thic nucus’ oun th ht gion It thn tvs though

miin (which wou pp to it to b tunn) in th tmpt bo n

its out o th h It wi subsqunt b bsob b th nt high

ng bo (ctiv incnting into nw bo)10



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Th phsic-biomocu bo n th tmpt bo (which is cos in-

tgt with it) wi thn stt to isintgt So wht hppns to th mo-

tion bo (which is mpp onto ou ight bin)? I it os not issov, it

wi ‘oit’ in mii pcs n subsqunt b ttct to pcs whoth simi bois (with simi sonnt quncis) conggt

Hnc, uing th th pocss, th is ‘ivision o consciousnss’ s

vinc b th sption o th motion bo (which cots to ight

bin wnss) n th mnt bo (which cots to t bin con-

sciousnss) This hs bn pot b Pt Novk in his book, ‘division

o Consciousnss,’ n is consistnt with th mtphsic n igious

ittu Novk scibs th motion bo s th ‘sou’; n th mnt

bo s th ‘spiit’

emnu Swnbog (th svntnth cntu mstic) cims tht o-

owing th post-motm ‘i-viw,’ pson’s conscious min (cot

to th t bin) spts om th ‘unconscious’ min (cot to th

ight bin), n tht th unconscious sou nts into hvn o h

Novk ss th conscious spiit thn incnts into nw bo11

d fic Schi ss tht on o th most impotnt inings o

spit-bin sch is tht ch hmisph o th bin hs min o its

own H hpothsiss tht in mn pop, on min m b ss mtu

n mo istub b pst tum thn th oth12 Simi, whn thmnt n motion bois o th phsic-thic nsmb go thi sp-

t ws, th m bhv v int om ch oth

Th ‘unconscious’ motion bo, spt uing th th pocss

n cot to ou ight bin, wi hibit chctistics which wi b

simi to t-bin mg ptint o th pson in th ight bin o

spit-bin ptint (an convs o th ‘conscious’ mnt bo) Th

stu o ths spit-bin ptints wou tho thow much ight on th

bhvio o ou post-motm mins which spt — incuing s-unction spiits n ghosts

The Unconscious Component (i.e. the Emotional Body) on Separation

I pson h iv i which bought pc n jo to his inn sou,

ccoing to Swnbog, t th th unconscious wou, upon conns-

ing, in ths ttibuts to b its ssnti ntu; n wou njo hv-

n-tp pinc Convs, th unconscious wou su h-tp

pinc

accoing to Novk, u to its bsout isotion om outsi stimu-

i, motions wou com to i th nti i o wnss o th motion

bo; n so wou b t on n bsout v o intnsit an onc pt

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thought; unb to think c, it wou b oom to min in whtv

utomtic, subjctiv, motion-bs pttns it h og uing i

Hving ost th cpcit o intignt cisions, th unconscious wou

in its ozn in om, pmnnt hoing whtv opinions, pscho-ogic hbits, n unsov motion comps it possss t th mo-

mnt o th an sinc th unconscious is motion-oint, it wou

ocus intnt n bin on th motion contnt it hs buit-up ov

n ov gin

I its jugmnts o its mmois w s-ppoving, th cospon-

ing motion pinc wou b bsout, unning, v-incsing

jo; but i thos jugmnts w s-conmning, th motion sponss

wou b bsout, unning, v-incsing mis13

accoing to NINdS (Ntion Institut o Nuoogic disos

n Stok, US) nuo-pschoogist, Pu fio, th bin’s two hmi-

sphs nom wok in tnm to jug motions oun us so w cn

mk th ight spons Th ight bin unctions ik , scnning o

th bip on th scn — signs o ngtiv motion o ng — n ts

th t si (This biit is wht m b somtims c th ‘eQ’) Th

t hmisph nss th sitution, tmins th isk, n omuts

ogic sttg ‘But in ou sch,’ d fio continus, ‘w oun tht

with mg to th t bin, th ight bin bcoms ov-st imut nuns out o conto Th ptint bcoms nious, pssimistic, n tns’

(a sciption tht cou si it som sunction ghosts)

W know tht pocsss in th ight bin (nom ssocit with

th ‘unconscious’) unintntion n is utomtic cu Th is

n bsnc o pson ‘wi’ n intntionit W so know tht ths

pocsss common to mmms Th pocsss in th t bin

(nom ssocit with th ‘conscious’), on th oth hn, nom

scib s ‘intignt,’ puposu n intntion — n cis o wi n iniviuit Ths pocsss uniqu to humns ov g two

n phps som ngug-tin ps

accoing to lbt, th ssnc o th high ng bois o

(gn unconscious) nims gos bck to goup-sou, t shot

st in th high ng ‘st’ wo14 Simi, th ssnc o th high-

ng bo psnting th unconscious potion o th humn bing

joins goup-sou, t shot iniviuis istnc Th unconscious

(vn in iving humn bing — s psnt in th ight bin) is not

s iniviuis s th conscious componnt (s psnt b th t

bin) (Th t o vopmnt o th two bins, s point out b d

Schi bov, cn b quit int) Th sns o spt intit n

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n t th ivision t Ths visitos om th nt wo sm to

hv thi wits bout thm; with unction mins, ogic, mmois, n

snss o intit sti intct Ths sous hv ppnt not pinc

th ivision pict b th BSd [Bin Sou division]’H thn sks, ‘Th qustion is, hv th pmnnt voi it [i

th ivision], o hs it not just cught up with thm t?’ Th nsw, bs

on th bo tho oun in tition mtphsic thois, is ‘both’

Th spit i occu Howv, uth spits wi occu s ch high n-

g nsmb (so consisting o mnt n motion bois) ‘unzips’

n is18

Contnts n oth stuctus, o vn who bois, tht cnnot not

b intgt with th nsmb o high ng bois which sk-

ing to go to high pn o sph p s sou gmnts Th

m b consi t-ov poucts — which hv oth uss in th wi

schm o things Th unconscious gmnts tht w t bhin now

not suppot b high intignc Th known vious s ‘shs’

o ‘shs’ in th mtphsic ittu n hv bn wittn bout tn-

siv b lbt

Shades and Shells

Novk shou istinguish btwn wht is common c ‘shs’ (which bis isc b th ising ocus o wnss) in th mtphsic

ittu with u iving sous (with th spiit sti invigoting it)

lbt ss tht in th cous o his phsic i th oin mn

usu ntngs hims so much in (k) st mtt (in oth wos,

tht h intiis hims so cos with sis ssocit with ow -

qunc bois) tht th in-wing oc o th high ng bois n

consciousnss cnnot nti spt him om it gin Consqunt,

whn h in bks w om th ow qunc (st) bo ntnss his ctivitis to th high qunc (mnt) bo, h oss it-

t o hims - ving mnnt o hims in th ow qunc bo

‘This givs ctin mnnt o vitit to th st cops, so tht it sti

movs in th st wo, n m si b mistkn b th ignont

o th mn hims,’ h ss

Such gmnt consciousnss, ss lbt, sti tins p-

son’s mmois, but is on pti n unstiscto psnttion o

th pson Sinc th high consciousnss hs bn withwn, ‘th

is no uth vopmnt to th mmois’ in ths mcoscopic bo-

is — th pt p out — n th bois pp s utom-

tons It’s s i th us h t n th comput just kps -cuting

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cops with gmnt consciousnss n mmois ‘sh’19 (Novk

hims scibs th ‘unconscious sous’ s ‘isc’ unconscious

mins 20)

at t stg, lbt ss, vn this gmnt o consciousnssis out o th st bo (u to incsing ntop) It os not tun to

th high ng bois n consciousnss to which it oigin bong

s Novk impis (just s mtt bonging to phsic cops is bn-

on to th pocsss o Ntu) Whn th st cops mins, but

without n tc o its om i, lbt scibs it s ‘sh’21

Influence of Resurrection Theories

Novk’s tho impis tht th isc gmnts (which in it

copss nimt b siu ng — ik innimt objcts which hv

pick up som ctosttic chg) shou unit gin with th min

bo This is simi to ctin Chistin suction thois — wh

suct phsic (pimt) bo is unit with its own

estn igious thois, on th oth hn, ncoug th bn-

onmnt o ths bois, which th c ‘shths’ o ‘koshs’ to ibt

th ivin spk (o ivin voi) om bing tpp in mnist uni-

vss futh ncsmnts in bois o mmois wou b timnt

to ibtion as pin in th utho’s book ‘Ou Invisib Bois’14 ,th vib-

to signtus o th sto incoming ptics (i th om nuci o

high ng bois) vntu gnt high ng motion n

mnt bois which intic in composition to th pvious bois

( just s dNa cn b us to ct con o th oigin) In oth wos,

bo simi (but not th sm bo) — con — is ‘suct’ using

sto vibto signtus

Resurrection or Reincarnation?

This so mns tht whi mmois (in th om o th unconscious mo-

tion bois) bnon b th ‘scning spiit,’ th sto in

ptics which continu to b ink to th spiitu bo In ct, it is so

ths sto mmois (o smsks in Hinu n Buhist ittu)

tht suts in th ccs o biths n ths Tho, th is

ctu no ugnt n to intgt with bokn (mcoscopic) sou pics

o gmnts om th estn igious point o viw; s wht is impi in

Novk’s n simi thois which n tows th dst igions

Th ptics (pticu th ow ng ptics) hv bn ob-

sv to jct om th h o ing pson b mtphsicists n vn

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Univs Bin-Min

Th bin is chmic conto, n pinc hs showntht it cn b m pmb to th supuous spcts o

Min-t-lg b moiing th nom chmist o th

bo

aous Hu 1

aous Hu is convinc tht th unction o th bin n nvous ss-

tm n sns ogns is in th min imintiv n not pouctiv ‘ech

pson is t ch momnt cpb o mmbing tht hs v hp-

pn to him n o pciving vthing tht is hppning vwh

in th univs,’ h ss Th unction o th bin n nvous sstm is

to potct us om bing ovwhm n conus b this mss o g

usss n ivnt knowg, tiv to his unctioning in th cunt

univs (ctu just this sm pnt) In this w, th nom unction-

ing bin cts s n inhibito o ctin tps o pincs

a pson un th inunc o mscin o sgic ci

wi stop sing visions whn givn g os o nicotinicci anoth inhibito o vision pinc is oin,

v, pcptu pincs

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ccountb to th st o th univs — n th who mutivs is moving

tows gt smmt n ntop — consistnt with th Scon lw o

Thmonmics

We ‘r’ Us — Our Shared Brain

Hmn n rhingo biv tht th sch on mot viwing sug-

gsts tht ‘th ctiv/intuitiv min cou b gtting inomtion in ws

oth thn om th iong ning o th pson rsch on tpthic

communiction suggsts tht w join t p v; sch on

pschokinsis inicts connction btwn min n th tn nvi-

onmnt’9

Information Fields

rupt Shk ss tht h ss mins s bing ‘i-ik’ n ‘mnt

is’ s th bsis o hbitu pttns o thought Mnt is go bon,

though, n intc with th ctomgntic pttns in th bin In

this w mnt is cn ct ou bois though ou bins ‘Howv,

th much mo tnsiv thn ou bins, ching out to gt is-

tncs in som css,’ h ss10

Th high ng univss hv nomous computtion pow

autistic svnts n th gtst scintists, incuing einstin, hv thisbiit to tp into ths univss Th is smpthtic sonnc btwn

simi thought oms so tht th cust n om ‘tbss’ Ths

thought-oms cn b consi ‘mophic is’ which gnt n

tin in th high ng univss o som tim Nvthss, -

though simi thought-oms cn inunc n ciitt th in stuc-

tu o th i-om, th o not tmin it — s wht is bing suggst

b Shk (Wht tmins th oms th bioptics in ch bo;

in th cs o th biomocu bo, this is th dNa mocu)Th eth’s high ng mgmsphs, whi hving its own mm-

o, svs t th sm tim s stohous o thoughts gnt on

eth Th eth’s mmo sto cn b ccss though wht mn mt-

phsicists c th ‘akshic cos’ Nvthss, sinc phsic objcts

hv thi k mtt countpts, g mnt bois n stohouss

o mmois ist t th v o th So Sstm, th g, custs o

gis, th univs n th mutivs s who

Global Memory

In 1908 lbt pin tht th is n init btwn n ptic

o mtt n th co which contins its histo — n init which n-

bs it to ct s kin o conucto btwn tht co n th cutis






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scn, suoun b th chcts

Th chcts o cous cnnot s ou Nith cn ou chng n-

thing in th scn In this w, pson cn tim tv s n obsv,

without vioting cusit Wht ou sing is in th pst — n som-tims in th utu (ou pst o utu is tiv to ou m o nc)

Nvthss, th t t which ‘th sto unos’ cn b t lbt

wns tht th akshic cos must not b conus with m mn-m

thought-oms, which ist in bunnc in th high ng pns o

sphs15 It is possib tht i th ight bin is not shi ctiv om

th usu ominnt t bin (th ‘tho mk’) mn os wi is

whn ing th cos

Brief History of the Akashic Records

Th akshic cos o ‘Th Book o li’ cn b qut to

th univs’s sup comput sstm It is this sstm tht

cts s th cnt stohous o inomtion o v

iniviu who hs v iv upon th eth

Kvin Toschi,

Cc Scho

Th ‘akshic cos’ ws tm coin b th Thosophic movmnt

(which oigint in th 19 th cntu) n to univs iing

sstm which cos v thought, wo, n ction Ths cos

mb in th ‘aksh’ — which is th Snskit wo o ‘sk’, ‘spc’

o ‘th’ Th cos si to hv ist sinc th bginning o

Ction Som scib ths cos s simi to Cosmic o coctiv

consciousnss Th cos hv bn to b int nms in-

cuing th Cosmic Min, th Univs Min, th coctiv unconscious,o th coctiv subconscious Th akshic cos smb ib

n hs so bn comp to univs comput (som hv scib

it s th ‘Min o Go’) Th vious tbss coving int

subjcts

Th ‘akshic cos’ n ‘Univs Min’ hv so bn to

t vious tims n pcs s th ‘H o rcos’ n ‘H o Knowg’

dint pop, t int tims, in int ws, to int gs

n hv bn b to ccss th akshic cos; ppnt ccs-

sib vi ou subconscious min Som wits biv tht om n

inpnnt o igions n iths, th ist mn ibis o co

positois such s th akshic ib thoughout th univs; on vi-

ous pns o istnc It is compt n thoough co o vthing







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It is biv b som tht th vnts co on th akshic cos cn

b sctin o in ctin stts o consciousnss — which cn b

inuc b ctin stgs o sp, wknss, inss, ugs, n mit-

tion — so not on mstics but oin pop cn n o pciv th akshic cos It is biv tht th akshic cos mk civonc

n pschic pcption possib Som pschics who o pst i ings

cim to civ thi inomtion om th akshic cos fonsic ps-

chics, who ssist th poic in invstigtions, pp so, quit qunt,

to b ccssing ths cos W so hv th bi it to ccss th cos

in ou ming stt Th inomtion civ in pcognitiv ms

(civont ms ting to n vnt o stt not t pinc) is

otn si to b utimt iv om th akshic cos

Ctin psons in subconscious stts o th akshic cos

an pntion o this phnomnon is tht th akshic cos th

mcocosm o th iniviu subconscious min Th intuitiv min (s-

socit with th ight bin) o th iniviu cts s big btwn

th isciminting min (ssocit with th t bin) n th Univs

Min (s not in th lnkvt Sut, s Chpt 2) Th coctiv

subconscious incus ntwok o subconscious mins which cn b

b oth subconscious mins Somon who mitts gu,

ov tim, ns to stin mnt ctivitis in th conscious min (o-tn ssocit with th t bin) n to go p n p within

th subconscious min (which is otn ssocit with th ight bin)

unti it mgs with th ‘bock’ — th Univs Min Th h bgins

to b b to pciv this univs knowg Inst o bing imit

to inomtion n pincs tht ccssib om th biomocu

bin h o sh now hs n pn consciousnss (n ctiv using

g bin) tht is cpb o civing th ccumut knowg o

miions o pop ov thousns n tns o thousns o seg Cc i his ings in sp stt o tnc d Ws

Ktchum scib Cc’s mtho: ‘Cc’s subconsciousis in ict

communiction with oth subconscious mins, n is cpb o in-

tpting though his objctiv min [nom ssocit with th t

bin] n impting impssions civ to oth objctiv mins, gth-

ing in this w knowg possss b nss miions o oth

subconscious mins’ appnt Cc ws intpting th coctiv

subconscious min ong bo th pschitist C G Jung postut his

concpt o th coctiv unconscious, ccoing to d dni Conon19

accss to th akshic cos wi i om pson to pson It

m otn b psnt s ib o books, on sing book; imgs on

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who hs t i to th ‘Mmo o Ntu’ s kpt in tht high gion

wi tsti tht th hv t just tht w whn th t th ing n

tun to thi oin bin consciousnss Howv, thought must

b mnist though th bin n to b intigib to oths it must btnst into sntncs conscutiv unoing th is to b conv

No on who hs not t this imittion on coming bck om th ‘Hvn

Wo’ with such vub inomtion cn is th chgin n spi

which on s whn h nvos to o this, mnts Hin In th

highst gions, Hin pins, things incu in n tn h

n now: th is nith tim no spc; bginning no n

To ng wht ws ‘sn’ n ‘h’ n ‘t’ in tht stt o con-

sciousnss into conscutiv ng is in convntion tim is nt

to impossib It simp uss to it though th bin, ccoing to

Hin ‘W who hv sn n h know wht w hv sn n h,

but w unb to utt it Th is no humn ngug o tongu tht cn

tnst ths things in n qut mnn n giv to noth nthing

but th intst ing, th most ttnut show o th goious it’,

ss Hin22 This usttion is so common on h mong n-

th pincs

Interaction with the PresentMuch mo thn simp mmo stohous, th akshic cos si

to b intctiv Th cos pp to hv tmnous in unc upon

ou v ivs, ou tionships, ou ings n bi sstms, n

th potnti itis w w tow us accoing to Hn Bvtsk

(who iv in th nintnth cntu), russin immignt, mstic, n

oun o th Thosophic Socit, th akshic cos much mo

thn simp n ccount o sttic t which m b gn b snsitiv;

inst, th cos hv n ongoing ctiv stimuus upon th psntTh cos connct ch on o us to on noth Th contin th

stimuus o v chtp smbo o mthic sto n hv bn th in-

spition o ms n invntions Th w us tow o p us om

on noth

Th th unbis jug n ju tht ttmpt to gui, uct,

n tnsom v iniviu to bcom th v bst tht sh o h cn

b (a sciption tht wi b mii to n-th pincs who hv

ungon i viws) Th mbo n v-chnging ui o pos-

sib utus tht c into potnti s w intct n n om th

t tht hs bn ccumut

accoing to ensto Otiz, ncs in th O Tstmnt n b-

on giv us th sns tht th is coctiv stohous o knowg tht









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o viw o th akshic cos Contmpo pincs m so s

scn tht isps tmnous mount o scintiic t, numbs n

univs cos — simi to how som utistic svnts n gniuss viw

thi ‘soutions’ on thi ‘mnt scns’ a ss contmpo tp o viw m b o high bing ing

om Book o li (o Chistin pincs) o bing ing om th

akshic cos (o Hinu pincs) Th viw cn tk pc bo

‘Counci o es’ who st t tb o vn in n mphitht th

siz o spots stium i with ight bings who wi obsv ou viw

Th witnss vthing ou i, vn in sct Nvthss, th viw

wi ik ct-ining th thn ut-ining viw Th bings

m pus th viw o whi i ou upst; ppnt to stngthn

ou with ov Th so tk into consition vious spcts bout ou

i; such s, how ou w is, wht ou w tught, th pin inict

upon ou, n th oppotunitis miss o not civ Howv, ou

th jug Th bings m ciitt th viw

Clairvoyance

Civonc is in s om o t-snso pcption whb

pson pcivs istnt objcts, psons, o vnts, incuing sing

though opqu objcts n th tction o tps o ng not nom pcptib to humns (o mp, io wvs) Tpic, such pcp-

tions pot in visu tms, but m so incu uito o touch

impssions

‘rmot viwing’ is cos t to civont biitis It ows

‘viw’ to gth inomtion on ‘tgt’ consisting o n objct, pc,

pson, tc, which is hin om phsic viw o th viw n tpic

spt om th viw b som istnc rmot viwing is otn on

in convntion tim; though som hv pot to hv coss into thpst o utu

It h bn pot tht in som instncs pschics woking with th

CIa w sk to sp on Sovit miit bss in thi ms Th h

mn mkb succsss n w b to povi vi ib inomtion

bout th chosn tgts you ms m spontnous v

civont knowg bout istnt octions o th utu P-cognitiv

ms spci ctgo o ‘m civonc’ which pps to t

us tht tim m b n iusion (i it is not th sm in int ms o

nc)

Pschomt, o th biit to know bout th histo o pson, thing

o pc using touch, is bs on th mtphsic bi tht v thought,

ction, n vnt tht hs v occu sinc th bginning o tim vs









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bout th twins who mus thmsvs o hous ting si-igit pim

numbs — though th w incpb o poming vn simp muti-

piction Th to Scks tht th sw pim numbs just ‘pp in thi

mins’ To unstn how mnt t svnts cn o such comp ccutions subconscious, do Tt ss, w n to min on

o th ost, st-vov gions o th bin: th primitiv storhous of

mmor

Tt bivs tht whn ssocitiv mmo sstms, oct in th

high gions o th cot, i o pts o th bin, th ncint pth-

ws in th bs gngi known s hbit mmo, tk ov Hbit mmo

is Pvovin, n chiv o invount stimuus/spons oops — th mm-

o tht nv ogts how to i bik It’s not tht svnts mmb

vthing, ss Tt; it’s tht th unb to ogt nthing

Tt is convinc tht som svnts o not hv to n th -

goithms invov in tsks ik cn ccuting Th sotw coms

pinst ‘you hv to go bon tking bout tits,’ h ss, ‘n

stt tking bout th gntic trnsmission of knowdg ’ [emphsis ]

Th wing biitis o most svnt tists, o mp, bust oth with

no pption, no tining, n no pctic — s i thi ski s w

th, u g, ning on ccss to pnci o bush

Mtphsicists gn pp to incntion tho o such spon-tnous knowg Th point out tht in mn css o incntion,

wh th is unpinb n spontnous knowg om bith, th

is no gntic ink btwn th biomocu bo o th incnt p-

son n his pvious biomocu bo

Impairment Uncovers Genius

Sn fncisco nuoogist Buc Mi notic tht ctin pop ig-

nos with onto-tmpo mnti, sun vop ptitus o musicn t whn thi ngug cutis sto b th iss On

ptint, 78--o inguist, bgn composing cssic music soon t

th onst o mnti, though h h itt music tining; h t tht

his min ws bing ‘tkn ov’ b nots n intvs anoth ptint, n

stbish nscp tist, tun tow bstction n pint vn

mo pssiv s h vb skis cin Bin scns o onto-tmpo-

mnti ptints conim pttns o mg simi to thos oun in

mn svnts as th iss pogsss, ths ptints pinc cuious

pcptu ttions, bcoming mo ttntiv to ttu tis, visu

pttns, n souns

Buc Mi now bivs tht s som ptints with onto-tmpo

mnti gt wos, th so gt btt H posit tht th mnti os








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consciousnss

Sn bivs tht th mnt pptus to pom `ightning st,’

ccutions sis in us , vn though it is not nom ccssib29

This suggsts tht th unusu skis o svnts cn b us s ignos-tic too to pob inomtion om ow-v mchnisms which is not

vib to intospction in th nom min Howv, th svnt hs not

v unknown o unpct mchnisms in th cs o wing o

pct pitch, ccoing to Sn Th phsics o ntu scns

ts us how pspctiv must b comput b th bin n isct -

qunc nss known to b th pim uito cptos

‘No, in this vin, shou th svnts’ stonishing ts o c o ti

v nthing nw bout mnt pocssing,’ Sn ss, ‘sinc much

vinc suppots th viw tht w sto n nomous mount o in-

omtion, with on minut subst vib o c’30 Ou c, ik

ou wing skis, pps to b concpt ointt31 This bocks us om

unit inomtion

Facts or Assumptions?

Mic scinc n thos ssocit with it ssum tht th inomtion is

bui insi th bin But cn this inomtion b non-oc? Th invis-

ib supstuctu tht suppots th ctivitis o th bin, which hs bniscuss in this book, is btt cnit o th comp ccutions

n c (b ing th akshic cos) tht svnts hv

Impimnt not on uncovs svnt ski s but intuitiv knowg n

mstic visions P-cognitiv ms which suggst th iution o tim

bts th ct tht ths pincs o not oigint with th bin but

pss though it — s suggst b mn pschics, mstics n mtphs-

icists — in th pocss gtting it n cogg-up This poucs th

mii n-th pinc mnsi o th post-bith mnsi o -incnt bing

accoing to ‘Hbb’s u’ in nuoscinc, whn nuons pt

i in pticu pttn, tht pttn bcoms smi-pmnnt tu

o th bin — i it bcoms mmo I th connctions so om shou

t pov o itt us, suting om inqunt iings coss th pvi-

ous stngthn snpss, th connctions wkn on thi own om

th ck o stimution yt w know om th stu o utistic svnts tht

th cn mmb poigious mounts o inomtion om just on n-

count with th stimuus spontnous vn cs t th vnt with

photogphic cit Th pps to b no n o hs, inoc-

mnt o constnt c to stngthn snpss How os Hbb’s u it

into this? Su this suggsts int tp o mmo mchnism











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o nc is ss thn th imnsionit o th univs tht w pciv

ou bois s spt objcts in univs This is th shk bsis o wht

w c ‘objctivit’ Th univs, pciv in this m o nc is

voi o subjctivit as th imnsionit o th m o nc o pcption incss,

objcts mg with th univs n th two bcom inistinguishb I

pson ws obsving hims s n objct, thn s th imnsionit o

his m o nc incss, h mgs n bcoms inistinguishb

om th univs Th ichotom btwn subjctivit n objctivit thn

bks own Wht i th imnsionit o ou m o nc is gt

thn th univs? Thn th univs wou bcom n objct in us

a swing go within m bgn to nvop towns, continnts,

th eth, So n st sstms, tnuous nbu, n

oting univss Th nti cosmos, gnt uminous, ik

cit sn t night, gimm within th ininitu o

m bing

Pmhns yognn 3

Mstics pciv this ict n pinc it ist hn To sci-

ntist, howv, mstic m pp v simpistic bcus h os notc oun big bg o igoous thois to suppot wht h ss Th

knowg gin b th mstic is iomtic n s-vint Sinc th is

no tho, nothing cn b communict to th scintist in tms o in

thois — on obsvtions a 1 nsis o th 3 pinc wou gn-

t sv s-conticto (gomtic othogon) 1 thois

athough nsis which is ssocit with th t bin is n int-

g pt o mittion, it is gn not ssocit with mittion in th

mn’s min Its pupos is min to ssimit th pinc o thight bin into th t bin’s mwok Phps it hs not bn mph-

sis bcus th is isk tht th bin-min m gt ‘ci w’ with

nsis which povis psuo muti-imnsionit — mutiimnsion

mos, not mutiimnsion pincs Ths not ‘s-vint’

tuths — th isconnct cots n chp substituts o mutii-

mnsion pinc

Mutiimnsion pinc, which psnts ‘top-own’ ppoch

to knowing, whn tnst to in scintiic thois is tho ncs-

si poic n inb s ch imnsion is othogon (contic-

to) to noth lin thotic nsis, which psnts ‘bottom-up’

ppoch to knowing (simi to cognitiv pocsss ssocit with th t

bin) is ncssi incompt, comp to 2 o 3 pinc; bcus



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o th conition o ogic s-consistnc within ch imnsion ech i-

mnsion is ‘cos-o’ (insu) but unboun (within tht imnsion) o

1’ futhmo, mgnt poptis bought bout b th intction

o vious imnsions (o thois) m b missOn cu to th vopmnt o poitis in knowg gntion is

th ‘cu mi’ aistotin (bivnt, smmtic) ogic, which -

cus th mi, gnts poitis, which in tun gnts compit

I th univs is mio, thn th cu mi is th cck in th mi-

o th mio — so tht th ttibuts in on bokn pt o th mio is

ct in th oth mio with vs ttibuts This is vinc in

th cts ‘Cnto’s st’ n ‘Koch’s snow k’ — both mps o com-

pit ising om cuing th mi Poitis is whn th mi

is cu epinc is in th mi, nsis vs ou t th pos

End of Science

On imittion o pinti mstic knowg is its incs subjctiv-

it, sinc, most o this knowg is iomtic It m b iicut to com-

munict this knowg to ‘in nsts’ Th scon isvntg is

tht sinc th 3’ hs no thois, on ioms, his knowg wou b

pciv to b o itt vu to th in scintist This gumnt m b

us to suppot nsis ginst pinc as it stns in histo, th ms-tic ss tht w o hv th ciitis to pciv it ict, stting tht

such biitis hv bn unvop in humn bings Th scintists

not convinc, citing th ck o mpiic vinc Howv, with nw

scintiic instumnts n unvoib chngs to scintiic thois, th

itis tht mstics pinc n pincing bing incs-

ing ct in mon scintiic thois

I vbo took th mstic’s out, w wou in tht s ou pi-

nc is nhnc, th n o in nsis is uc n cn vn bimint Scinc wou bcom unnt Knowg wou bcom

tot iomtic n pinti Howv, unti consciousnss is bought

to high imnsions, Scinc wou sti hv cuci o to p It cn

gnt high imnsion knowg though in cots o high

imnsion pinc In ct, th is ‘on-to-on’ mpping o in

nsis to high imnsion pinc Howv, th ‘mpping’ is not

n pinc Th inc btwn in mpping n 3 pi-

nc is tht th om is squnc in tim (coting it with th t

bin) but th tt is simutnous pciv (coting it with th

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Reality Decomposition in Lower Dimensions

Bottom-up pocssing bks th wo into tin pics n thn puts it bck

with thois n ws in pocss o gniztion In kin o ‘vs

ngining’ it tks th wo pt n stuis its componnts to s whttionship ths componnts hv with oth componnts Th iscov

tionships (invints o smmtis) pss in thois n ws

To ctin tnt, this is ‘scon-hn’ knowg Th vntg o this

knowg, howv, is tht it is potb — it cn b si communict to

oths Somthing simi hppns whn 3 souns civ b tphon

civ is convt to 1 bits o t tht tv ong tphon ins Th

‘potbiit’ o scintiic knowg hs m it popu Th isvntg

o this knowg is tht it hs to b constuct b th civ invoving bouious pocss This m intouc os u to incoct pocssing

o th t n nois in th incoming signs

futhmo, th inc btwn hoistic pinti knowg

n ‘ntic knowg b pts’ is th inc btwn knowing 12

gs o ins n thi tionships n sing cub Whi 3 obsv

m s cub, in obsv ss 12 gs futhmo, this in

obsv notics tht ths 12 gs hv som tionship This is bcus

th pp to mov togth aso, i h punchs into on g (t us im-

gin th cub s woon ct), th oths vibt n om Thn h

omuts tho om this tionship H mpiic tsts his tho

ev tim h punchs into on g, t st on oth g oms in th

opposit iction So h omuts tho, tht o v ction th is

n qu n opposit ction a oth in pimnts co th

sm sut This tho thn bcoms w

Howv, o 3 obsv, ths ws n thois supuous

Bcus o th ck o two imnsions, th in obsvs hv to omu-

t numb o thois n ws to ink ispt vnts To th inobsv-nst this tho n w is mningu To th 3 obsv,

th tionship btwn th gs is ‘s-vint’ (iomtic) — th is

no n o poo Th in tho pps simpistic to th 3 obsv

Wht is iomtic to th 3 obsv is thotic to th in obsv

‘Subjectivity’ of Higher Dimensions

Th is n incsing intgtion o isconnct vnts n obsvtions

s th imnsions o consciousnss incss Th is so movmnttows pinc (n pinti knowg) n gt subjctivit (

movmnt om thoms to ioms)

Th subjctivit o 3 pinti knowg mns tht th mstic

cnnot sh his pincs with in nsts in ict w Howv,











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