Leibniz: Conceptually the universe is a hologram, but physically it is a fractal(and they're both proven true)

There are two conflicting theories of the niverse, one being that it is structured like a hologram, the other that it is structured like a fractal. Here we suggest that both theories are true, and we can resolve the issue by adopting the dual aspect viewpoint of Plato-Leibniz that there are two simultaneous universes that correspond to each other, like the two side of a coin. One is the universe of Plato's Mind (the One), the other is Leibniz's universe of Monads (the Many), where the One creates, perceives and controls the Many. According to these two aspects, conceptually the universe is a hologram, but physically it is a fractal. Both theories envision an infinity in a speck. This can be so if the speck is Leibniz's monad, in which the infinity on the mental side is a hologram, and in which the infinity of the physical side is a fractal.

There is much experimental evidence, eg the experiments of Pribam, and the text by Talbot, that Mind has a holographic structure, but little that it has a fractal structure, so it is reasonable to adopt the viewpoint that Mind is structured holographically. Talbot's remarkable book is decades old, so he cannot be blamed for the lack of cosmological evidence. At the same time, his classic book, The Holographic Universe might be more accurately titled these days as The Holographic Mind.

In the other camp, there is a fair amount of evidence that the universe is structured like a fractal, but little that it is structured holographically, other than some thought experiments with black holes. There is some conflcting comment that the fractal stucture begins to disappear at very large scales, but that may be due to the effect of fitting a large fractal into a finite universe, and also perhaps due to Hubble's red shift.

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1) Leibniz's fractal aspect of the outside or physical universe (the Many, Monads).

No matter what scale you look at it, one finds, as Leibniz said in his Monadaology

Leibniz, The Monadology., http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/leibniz/monadology.html "67. Each portion of matter may be conceived as like a garden full of plants and like a pond full of fishes. But each branch of every plant, each member of every animal, each drop of its liquid parts is also some such garden or pond."'

There is some evidence from black hole thought experiments and the Northern Lights, that the physical world of spacetime is holographic, but the bulk of the evidence comes Pribram's studies of the brain, as explicated by Michael Talbot's book The Holographic Universe, which seems to have been better titled as The Holographic Mind; Leibniz envisioned such a scheme in his Monadology: So it would appear that the universe is conceptually like a hologram but physically like a fractal.

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2) Leibniz's simultaneous holographic aspect of the inside or mental universe (the One, Mind).

This idea goes back to Leibniz's uncanny insight into the nature of holography, given in his monadology:

Leibniz, The Monadology., http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/leibniz/monadology.html

57. And as the same town, looked at from various sides, appears quite different and becomes as it were numerous in aspects [perspectivement]; even so, as a result of the infinite number of simple substances, it is as if there were so many different universes, which, nevertheless are nothing but aspects [perspectives] of a single universe, according to the special point of view of each Monad. (Theod. 147.)

61. And compounds are in this respect analogous with [symbolisent avec] simple substances. For all is a plenum (and thus all matter is connected together) and in the plenum every motion has an effect upon distant bodies in proportion to their distance, so that each body not only is affected by those which are in contact with it and in some way feels the effect of everything that happens to them, but also is mediately affected by bodies adjoining those with which it itself is in immediate contact. Wherefore it follows that this inter-communication of things extends to any distance, however great. And consequently every body feels the effect of all that takes place in the universe, so that he who sees all might read in each what is happening everywhere, and even what has happened or shall happen, observing in the present that which is far off as well in time as in place: sympnoia panta, as Hippocrates said. But a soul can read in itself only that which is there represented distinctly; it cannot all at once unroll everything that is enfolded in it, for its complexity is infinite. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thus the mental or inside is a hologram while the outside or physical is fractal in nature.

Each physical body is represented by a monad, which are created at the beginning of the universe, and since monads are non-interacting individuals, each monad is a separate fractal.

Both structural theories view an infinity in a speck. Which is reconciled if the speck is Leibniz's monad, in which the infinity on the mental side is a hologram, and in which the infinity of the physical side is a fractal.

I am just going to let this rest as an hypothesis, but it does point out the urgent need for physicists to study the world of Plato-Leibniz (see my site below), where Mind appears to see the world differently than the eye.

Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (retired, 2000). See my Leibniz site: https://rclough@verizon.academia.edu/RogerClough For personal messages use