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Stephan: If you understand that consciousness is causal and fundamental, then it follows that everything was created by consciousness through direct intention, and everything is a manifestation of consciousness. This totally freaks out materialists but the evidence that it is valid grows year by year.
Credit: NASA
Consciousness permeates reality. Rather than being just a unique feature of human subjective experience, it’s the foundation of the universe, present in every particle and all physical matter.
This sounds like easily-dismissible bunkum, but as traditional attempts to explain consciousness continue to fail, the “panpsychist” view is increasingly being taken seriously by credible philosophers, neuroscientists, and physicists, including figures such as neuroscientist Christof Koch and physicist Roger Penrose.
“Why should we think common sense is a good guide to what the universe is like?” says Philip Goff, a philosophy professor at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. “Einstein tells us weird things about the nature of time that counters common sense; quantum mechanics runs counter to common sense. Our intuitive reaction isn’t necessarily a good guide to the nature of reality.”
David Chalmers, a philosophy of mind professor at New York University, laid out the “hard problem of consciousness” in 1995, demonstrating that there was still no answer to the question of what causes consciousness. Traditionally, two dominant perspectives, materialism and dualism, have provided a framework for […]
Thobey Campion, Former Publisher of Motherboard and the Founder of EXO Dynamics, - Vice
Stephan: I have been following the UAP (UFO) saga since the 1950s, when Donald Keyhoe, one of the early investigators came to dinner at the invitation of my mother. Over the decades I have had the good fortune to know many of the researchers in this field, although it is not within my own area of research. This is one of the most interesting reports on this area of research I have read in some years.
Material samples from UbatubaCredit: Garry Nolan
Dr. Garry Nolan is a Professor of Pathology at Stanford University. His research ranges from cancer to systems immunology. Dr. Nolan has also spent the last ten years working with a number of individual analyzing materials from alleged Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.
His robust resume—300 research articles, 40 US patents, founding of eight biotech companies, and honored as one of Stanford’s top 25 inventors—makes him, easily, one of the most accomplished scientists publicly studying UAPs.
Motherboard sat down with Garry to discuss his work. It has been edited for length and clarity.
MOTHERBOARD:How long have you had an interest in UAPs? Dr. Garry Nolan: I’ve always been an avid reader of science fiction, so it was natural at some point that when YouTube videos about UFOs began to make the rounds I might watch a few. I noticed that this guy at the time, Steven Greer, had claimed that a little skeleton might be an alien. I remember thinking, ‘Oh, I can prove or disprove that.’ […]
Larry Dossey, MD, Executive Editor - Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing - Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Stephan: In order to deal with climate change we are going to have to change our fundamental world view. Materialism still the dominant but declining paradigm has to end, and a new paradigm which incorporates consciousness into science must emerge. Larry Dossey addresses this issue head on, and gives us a strikingly intelligent context for this process.
Larry Dossey, MD
Despite the towering intellectual and technological achievements of twentieth-century science, its spell over us has been irreversibly weakened. There are at least two important reasons for this. First, scientist and layman alike have become aware of the limits and shortcomings of scientific knowledge. Second, we realize that our perpetual hunger for spiritual understanding is real and undeniable. It can neither be defined away by subtle logic, nor be satisfied by viewing the universe as sterile, mechanistic, and accidental.1
Consilience is a new concept for many, but its meaning is straightforward. It is the principle that evidence from unrelated sources, such as science and the humanities, or science and religion, can converge and produce unified conclusions. The word originated in the mid-19th century from con,“together,”plus the Latin siliens, “jumping.” In other words, different concepts and ideas can combine or“jump together”to form a unitary whole. As a result, the whole is stronger than when single pieces of evidence stand alone.
Marianne Lavelle , David Hasemyer, - Inside Climate News
Stephan: The level of corruption and willful ignorance in the American congress is so grotesque it has taken on a Dickensian quality. Here's an example of what I mean.
Texas Republican Representative Lamar Smith
FREDERICKSBURG, Texas—It’s midway through fall, and cold has yet to settle over the Eckhardt family orchard. So, Diane Eckhardt waits with rising apprehension.
Cold is the switch that triggers the growing sequence that by summer has limbs sagging with ripe, juicy peaches. The reliable chill season in Texas Hill Country allowed Eckhardt’s grandfather, Otto, to start the family business here in the 1930s.
But last year, with temperatures the warmest since 1939, Eckhardt’s trees produced just 10 percent of their usual yield. And the year before, warm weather reduced production between 60 and 70 percent. Now, Eckhardt worries not only about the next crop, but about the future of a business she hopes will be passed on to her niece and nephews.
But while the Eckhardts face that certainty, their congressman sows uncertainty, casting doubt on the consensus science that greenhouse gases are the dominant cause of rising global temperatures, and opposing government action to curb them.
Stephan: Is this a correct interpretation of reality? Only time will tell; science is a process. I post it because more and more scientists, who would formerly have been card carrying materialists are, because of their research results, being forced to accommodate consciousness as foundational.
A paper recently published in the Journal of NeuroQuantology presents a unitary holofractogramic model that is redefining scientists’ view of the physics of consciousness and the seamless interplay of information dynamics from the most fundamental levels of the universe to the living system and the cosmos as a whole.
Major breakthroughs in the study of the physics of consciousness—and information dynamics in general—are occurring through the discovery and elucidation of holographic and fractal principles underlying fundamental properties of nature. For instance, in a fractal organization the degree of complexity of a system is scale-free, or invariant under any translation of magnitude. This means that one can “zoom in” or “zoom out” forever and the same degree of complexity will be observed—patterns of patterns reiterate ad infinitum. This has implications for the science of consciousness, as it is often assumed that consciousness emerges in a system once it reaches a significant threshold of complexity and integration. Yet, if the complexity is scale-invariant, is it not possible that the same information processes engendering consciousness at one observable domain are occurring at smaller scales as well?
The recent study examines evidence for the scale-free nature of consciousness in which toroidal geometry—like the well-known […]
