Consider the following experiment

Imagine your brain is hooked for a neural scan. An object is shown to you and the neural behavior is recorded. Then you are asked to remember the same object and the doctors recorded the neural behavior again.

Now the most interesting case over here is, neural behaviors were same when you saw the object (using your eyes) and when you remembered the object (neural behavior will be same even if you remember it in your dreams).

So, what is the role of eyes then? Why is the neural behavior same when the input came from two different sources?

The brain processes and tells us the interpretation of the (same type of) electro-magnetic signals it receives. In the above experiment the brain treats the signals from the eyes or from internal memory region in the same way. We are in the matrix – jacked in!

The brain processes billions of bits of information per second. However we are aware of only few thousands of bits of that information, which means we filter (brain blocks it without our knowledge) rest of the information out.

If we are part of the ‘Whole’ then there is no difference between what is out there (which we see through our eyes) and what we think (our thoughts) it’s all should be same (part of the ‘Oneness’).

Does that mean there should not be any concept of what we can see and what we can think?

Why does the action always affect the future? Why cannot it affect the past? Is it because we think about a time line in a cause and effect model and feels it can only move forward?

Does the universe exist if there is no consciousness or there is no observer to observe the universe?

As per quantum physics an electron can exist in more than one place simultaneously. It collapses into one (a single state) when it is observed. As per Roger Penrose the collapse (Road to Reality) happens due to gravity.

As per an electron can exist in more than one place simultaneously. It collapses into one (a single state) when it is observed. As per Roger Penrose the collapse () happens due to gravity.

Here are the three models which explain the observer and the observed in quantum physics.

1. According to Copenhagen view of quantum physics a system does not occupy a definite state or location until it is observed, till then it exist anywhere in the space and what you have is a set of probabilities to find the location.
2. Parallel Universe interpretation proposes that all the probabilities exist in parallel universes, means one probability per universe, which constraints us to see two states in a single (this) universe.
3. According to Roger Penrose gravity collapses all these states into a single state which we observe.

Reality

This forces us to re-think about reality. What is reality? Is that what we see through our eyes? Or something which our brain tells us to believe?

This forces us to re-think about reality. What is reality? Is that what we see through our eyes? Or something which our brain tells us to believe? One should know that nature is illusion (‘Maya’) and the Brahman is the illusion maker. - Svetasvatara Upanishad

The mustard seed is larger than the kingdom of heaven – Jesus Christ.

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We were parted many thousands of kalpas ago, yet we have not been separated even for a moment - Hinduism

Further reading

Internet

1. Discover Magazine - If an Electron Can Be in Two Places at Once, Why Can’t You? (June 2005 Cover story)
2. Physics Web - Quantum theory: weird and wonderful
3. Thomas J McFarlane - The Illusion of materialism
4. NeuroQuantology – A Journal of Neuro Science and Quantum Physics
5. Nostradamus – Life and Prophecies of Nostradamus
6. Bleep – What the Bleep do we know?
7. Times Online – No Miracle Cure for Junk Science : By Simon Singh

Books

1. Roger Penrose – Road to Reality
2. Amit Goswami – Self Aware Universe
3. Masaru Emoto – The Hidden Messages in Water

Posted originally at The Conscious Mind: How deep is the rabbit hole? and republished here by the author