“At the beginning of time there was a change in state, symmetry was broken, we went from equilibrium and order to instability and chaos, from a singularity to a Universe… from certainty to uncertainty. Reality went from a simple state to an ever increasing complexity, from an empty and perfectly flat vacuum state to curved spacetime full of objects.”
—Laurent R. Duchesne, AETHER: The Physicalists’ God
July 2010
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“There is another world of pure logic. There are no particles or grit or dirt or poison. There are perfect triangles, pi, the number one, and it’s impossible to confuse the real with the imagined. I get there through diligent introspection. I know this world, Adele. I know it through direct experience. I can go there any minute of any day by thinking. My mind touches it, this flawless reality incapable of deception. …
When I die, we must remember my soul will survive. Even if I find in my reincarnation that I am still in this muddle of partial truths and phantoms, I will at least be closer to that perfect reality. And when I die again and again, we must remember that eventually I will get there, to that pure, flawless place.” —Kurt Godel in Janna Levin’s novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
When I die, we must remember my soul will survive. Even if I find in my reincarnation that I am still in this muddle of partial truths and phantoms, I will at least be closer to that perfect reality. And when I die again and again, we must remember that eventually I will get there, to that pure, flawless place.” —Kurt Godel in Janna Levin’s novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
“Thus, consciousness appears with the emergence of matter, not before. There can be no evolution outside of spacetime. Spacetime is where experience takes place.”
—Laurent R. Duchesne, AETHER: The Physicalists’ God
“We could conceive reality to have started with this non-material, indivisible substance from where hyperspace emerged. A reality that shares the properties of both; the Aether’s omnipresence, and hyperspace’s non-linear information processing, which then turns into spacetime as reference points and linear time emerge, containing the properties of all three scales or realms.”
—Laurent R. Duchesne, AETHER: The Physicalists’ God
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A novel way of looking at underlying structure of reality:
If we allow for three different scales of reality with Aether as the eternal substrate supporting hyperspace and spacetime, the whole process can be coherently put together. We could say that Aether, hyperspace, and spacetime are all different states of the same entity, the difference between them being just a matter of scale. At the Aether scale there are no reference points, no meaningful motion, no time, no wave fronts, with empty space as perfectly flat… then at a larger scale it becomes hyperspace and we get EM waves, strings/branes, quanta… and finally, at an even larger scale, we get Einstein’s spacetime, the objective Universe as we naturally perceive it.
” —Laurent R. Duchesne, AETHER: The Physicalists’ God
Nature By the Numbers →
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A beautiful video expressing Eugene Wigner’s essay on “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences”.
“God is. To me, God is a thing, an entity, incapable of thinking until matter and brains come to existence. Many call it Cosmic Consciousness, others call it Mind, but they are all referring to same thing, a universal being. The Aether, like God, is omnipresent and eternal, with no beginning and no ending; it is One.”
—Laurent R. Duchesne, AETHER: The Physicalists’ God
“It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character.”
—Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical Universe
“To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
—Chuang Tzu (via heartmindspirit)
“The Aether is not in spacetime, spacetime is in the Aether.
The Aether, unlike spacetime, is primary. Matter and time are not.
The Aether has no means for storing meaningful information, but it contains the ratios… the constants… the law.
Reality is the process from where the objective Universe emerges, but the real, the eternal, is the substrate.” — Laurent R. Duchesne—AETHER: The Physicalists’ God
The Aether, unlike spacetime, is primary. Matter and time are not.
The Aether has no means for storing meaningful information, but it contains the ratios… the constants… the law.
Reality is the process from where the objective Universe emerges, but the real, the eternal, is the substrate.” — Laurent R. Duchesne—AETHER: The Physicalists’ God
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
—Gerald Ford (via heartmindspirit)
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
@myen” —Arthur C. Clarke (via @johannal) (via quote-book)
@myen” —Arthur C. Clarke (via @johannal) (via quote-book)
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
—Anais Nin | (via Star of the Sea) (via quote-book)
“The study of the mystics, the keeping company however humbly with their minds, brings with it as music or poetry does—but in a far greater degree—a strange exhilaration, as if we were brought near to some mighty source of Being, were at last on the verge of the secret which all seek. The symbols displayed, the actual words employed, when we analyse them, are not enough to account for such effect. It is rather that these messages from the waking transcendental self of another, stir our own deeper selves in their sleep. @myen”
—William James
“There exists for none of us, not even for the most “spiritual,” a merely human or personal liberation which leaves out the natural world. There’s no such thing as a true enlightenment which doesn’t light up every creature on Earth and in the skies, however grotesque or remote or unlovable. How could we begin to disentangle ourselves from any part of the One in whom we live and move and have our being? Enlightenment is cosmic or an illusion.
@myen” —Douglas Harding, Look For Yourself
@myen” —Douglas Harding, Look For Yourself
“The most important, the central characteristic in which all fully developed mystical experiences agree, and which in the last analysis is definitive of them and serves to mark them off from other kinds of experiences, is that they involve the apprehension of an ultimate nonsensuous unity in all things, a oneness or a One to which neither the senses nor the reason can penetrate. In other words, it entirely transcends our sensory-intellectual consciousness.”
—Walter Stace quoted in The Spiritual Brain by Mario Beauregard, Denyse O’leary
“Mysticism is transrational and thus lies in our collective future, not our collective past.”
—Ken Wilber, Grace and Grit
“I know that nothing has ever been real
without my beholding it.
All becoming has needed me.
My looking ripens things
and they come toward me, to meet and be met.”
—Rilke, Book of Hours
“Look at the course of evolution to date: from amoebas to humans! Now, what if that ratio, amoebas to humans, were applied to future evolution? That is, amoebas are to humans as humans are to—what? Is it ridiculous to suggest that the “what” might indeed be omega, geist, supermind, spirit? That Brahman is not only the ground of evolution, but the goal as well?”
—Ken Wilber, A Sociable God
“If consciousness is the basis of reality, then it is plausible that a transcendent consciousness is the underlying cause of the Universe.”
—Bernard Haisch, The Purpose-Guided Univerese
