Wave-Particle In a fascinating article—Does The Universe Exist If We're Not Looking?—that's based upon an interview with (the late) physicist John Wheeler, I learned something new about the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment, which is that it originally was a thought experiment involving a pair of distant galaxies and an even-more-distant quasar. It was only later that a table-top version …
Science & Spirit
Practice Notes: The Causal Potency of Wisdom vs. Ignorance
Dueling Hypotheses Let’s consider two hypotheses—both of which pertain to the relationship between (1) the subtle, internal and generally private realm of thoughts/feelings, and (2) perceptions of a presumably shared “external world.” Taken individually, each of these hypotheses makes sense to me: my inclination is to agree with them both. Yet when they’re placed side by side, they seem to …
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Happy Pi Day!
3.14 Well, π (the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter) has now been calculated to 31.4 trillion digits. That's a lot of digits! And represents significant progress, I suppose, towards the completion of an ultimately impossible task (viz. the decimal representation of an irrational number). But fun nevertheless. Estimates are that it would take somewhere in the neighborhood of …
Science Takes A Peek
Here Dean Radin describes a series of experiments that exemplify a vigorous application of the scientific method to questions around the relationship between consciousness and matter: specifically, the collapse of the wave function in double-slit experiments. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRSBaq3vAeY …
Unbroken
Like The Prow Of A Boat "Be, therefore, like the prow of a boat: It cleaves the water, yet it leaves in its wake water unbroken." Is this not one of the best-ever grasshopper teaching moments!? Let's explore this image in a bit more depth--but first, here it is in all its glorious original context ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXDZOa1rEp0 Leaving No Trace This image--of the …
Chasing Our Own Tails At Light-Speed
Very rich conversation here (and below) between Jeffrey Mishlove and Bernardo Kastrup, revolving largely around the differences between materialism and idealism--with Mr. Kastrup advocating for a particular form of metaphysical idealism. The materialist assumption of consciousness being produced by matter (which exists independently of consciousness) is what Bernardo dubs as "chasing our own …